Circus Camp Clowns Around
There are lots of stories and pictures in the paper about the camp and its budding performers. Here’s a short summary. Click here for more. Campers at the Recreation Department’s Circus Camp, run by Greg May, learn how to spin plates, juggle, ride unicyles and perform on the aerial silks. Community members are invited to […]
Greenbelt Hosts National League of Small Cities Council
Greenbelt City Councilmember Silke Pope and the City of Greenbelt recently hosted the Small Cities Council of the National League of Cities (NLC). The Small Cities Council is comprised of elected officials from communities across the country with a population of less than 50,000. Pope is the 2016 Chair of the Small Cities Council and […]
Greenbelt Joins National Night Out On August 2
On Tuesday August 2, the Greenbelt Police Department will spend at least some of the evening at play. They’ll be meeting with neighbors in Beltway Plaza and Franklin Park. They’ll have some food with neighbors in Greenbriar. They’ll laugh with the neighbors at Windsor Green. And they’ll enjoy a cold lemonade with neighbors at Huntington […]
Teens At Play Bring Joy To Midsummer Night’s Dream
The middle Dutch word pleien, from whence our contemporary word ‘play’ derives, means to leap for joy. Camp Encore’s recent production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream embodied that joyous playful energy, from the young players’ enthusiastic acting to the audience’s enchanted delight. Director Kate Magill Robinson took liberties with Shakespeare’s script, creating two roles […]
Assistance Devices for Deaf Patrons Supplied at Theatre
Nearly 77 years after the 1938 premiere of Little Miss Broadway, Sara Johnston finally understood why Shirley Temple appeals to audiences of all ages. Sara, a long-time Greenbelt resident, is deaf, and going to the movies wasn’t always easy. When the Old Greenbelt Theatre reopened in May 2015, Sara attended the official premiere, a captioned […]
Council OKs Police Restructuring, Considers Playground Costs
The Greenbelt City Council approved a proposed restructuring of the city police department from Police Chief James Craze at its July 11 regular meeting. Other items included dam repairs at Greenbelt Lake, playground surfacing costs and an update on the search for a replacement for retiring City Manager Michael McLaughlin. City Manager Council has been […]
County Zoning Rewrite Sets Local Beekeepers Abuzz
On July 12, Eleanor Roosevelt High School hosted one of a series of public outreach meetings regarding the Prince George’s County zoning re-write initiative. The town hall was hosted by the county’s Planning Department and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC). In his welcoming remarks, Council Chair Derrick Davis of District 6 stated, […]
Zoning Rewrite and More Discussed by City and GHI
The first part of the annual city Greenbelt Homes Inc., (GHI) stakeholder meeting on June 13 covered discussion of GHI concerns over new county legislation affecting “common ownership communities,” and was reported last week. Other topics at the meeting and covered in this article include the county zoning rewrite, Pepco’s tree management program for this […]
Council Reviews Draft Report On Economic Development
The Greenbelt City Council met until 11:30 p.m. at a July 5 worksession with Stuart Eisenberg, executive director, and Molly O’Connell, program manager, of Hyattsville Development Corporation, to review a draft report on economic development programming recommendations that they presented that evening. For the most part the study was well-received according to City Manager Michael […]
News Review Open House A Crowd Pleasing Success
The News Review Open House was a new venture for the paper. Although it regularly welcomes visitors, it has never before in all its years held a planned open house like Sunday’s. Perhaps it is merely 79 years of pent-up curiosity, but over 120 Greenbelters picked up their press passes and joined the paper’s […]