Tutor Gets Students Speaking English During Lunch Period
In a room near the Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) cafeteria, laughter and giggles are mixed with Spanish and English as a 77-year-old volunteer and a group of sophomore girls who speak very little English try to tell each other about their holidays. The groups on both sides of the conversation work hard together to […]
Women’s March Challenges Greenbelters to Get Downtown
Many women (and men) from Greenbelt expect to take part in the Women’s March on January 21 in Washington, D.C. Many are using Facebook to link up and make plans to march together. People are opening their houses to friends they haven’t seen for years who want to come and march. And there are semiorganized […]
Greenbelt Announces New City Manager
Monday night’s city council meeting started with the approval of lots of sets of minutes for executive sessions dealing with personnel matters. It peaked with the approval of a contract to hire a new city manager, and it ended with lots of hugs and cupcakes for the retiring city manager. Ever since Michael McLaughlin’s announcement […]
Greenbelt Lake Forebays Completed with Fanfare
The engineers’ message to the stream water is clear: We’ve cleared out the forebays. So slow down. Drop your dirt. Then, and only then, enjoy your time in the lake. After about four months of dredging the bays and replanting, Greenbelt and county officials, as well as Prince George’s County’s Clean Water Partnership celebrated the […]
Greenbelter Solomon on Team That Takes Biology Into Space
“Terps in Space” is the fundraising title for the project Microbial Pathogenicity in Microgravity for which three University of Maryland seniors will send a Fluid Mixing Enclosure (FME) up to the International Space Station where astronauts will conduct an experiment involving bacteria and then return the tube to Earth. “The goal is to discover how […]
Update on Worker Trapped In Ditch
The construction worker who was trapped in a trench next to Greenbelt Lake has been released from the hospital, according to the Prince George’s County Fire Department. On November 16 at 1 p.m., firefighters and medics responded to a call for help. The worker was trapped “chest-deep in a 12-foot trench,” wrote Mark Brady of […]
The Greenbelt News Review Heads for the Big Eight-O
Looking back over the News Review’s 79th year reveals a varied and adventurous period. At the start of the year, the paper debuted its color pages. Each week since, at least four pages have been in color and the online paper has all the color material faithfully reproduced even where it isn’t in color in […]
Worker in Critical Condition After Being Trapped in Ditch in Lake Forebay
A large number of emergency vehicles gathered at the lake Wednesday afternoon after a worker at the dam project became stuck in a trench. Mark Brady of the Prince George’s County Fire Department public information office said that fire fighters, medics and technical crew were cooperating to get the man out. After five hours the […]
Merchants Discuss Broken Pipe, Water Bills, Telecommunication
The main issues raised by representatives of the Roosevelt Center Merchants’ Association at their November 9 worksession with the Greenbelt City Council related to utilities from a broken pipe to a skyrocketing water bill to the problems of bringing modern telecommunications into the nearly 80-year-old center. The most critical issue was the decision by the […]
Greenbelters Cast Votes, Many After Long Waits
After months of being inundated with commercials, debates, controversies and political attacks, Greenbelt residents had mixed emotions about casting their ballots for the next President of the United States. Outside the Community Center, Delo – res Goodall and Mona Schlossberg, who have b o t h l i v e d i n G r […]