Council Adjusts Proposed Budget, Final Public Hearing on May 23
On Monday, May 16, the Greenbelt City Council began its final budget worksession at which the council makes tentative final decisions on changes it wishes to make to the city manager’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year, beginning July 1. The council first considered both good and bad news provided by City Manager Michael McLaughlin. […]
Public Works Budget Covers the whole nine yards
The Greenbelt Department of Public Works is responsible for keeping the city up and running with wide-ranging duties including taking out the trash; saving energy; maintaining the city’s buildings, vehicles, streets, parks, playgrounds and fields; running the Greenbelt Connection and maintaining the city cemetery. To carry out these responsibilities, City Manager Michael McLaughlin’s proposed Fiscal […]
Council Reviews Locations for Gateway Signs
The Greenbelt City Council received slightly revised entrance sign plans from Sharon Bradley of Bradley Site Design at its April 20 worksession. The more expensive and elaborate monument signs, which involve a large sign panel placed on a low stone retaining wall bearing the city logo and the words Welcome to Greenbelt, would be placed […]
Farmers Market Opens Sunday, May 8
The State Highways guys were only showing their overwhelming enthusiasm for local produce when they took down the market’s closed signs on Kenilworth Avenue and Greenbelt Road a week early. The market, nonetheless, will open Mothers Day, May 8 at 10 a.m. and run until 2 p.m. This year’s market will offer a variety of […]
Buddy Attick Parking Design
Sharon Bradley of Bradley Site Design presented the Greenbelt City Council with two alternate preliminary design concepts for reconstructing and enlarging the parking lot at Albert S. “Buddy” Attick Park at the council’s April 20 worksession. Both call for use of permeable pavement and bioretention swales to curb stormwater runoff. Council seemed to be pleased […]
Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair….
If you’re going to the Center this weekend, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair for the 12th annual Green Man Festival. This year flowers and all the blooming things will be celebrated. Children will be able to make small flower gardens and learn how to make paper flowers. One could make a […]
Clinton and Hoyer Win Greenbelt, Other Races are Close
For each state election it becomes more difficult for News Review staff to gather Greenbelt election results. Volunteers have to go to the election precincts in the city after polls are closed. Election results are supposed to be posted on the door. This time, one set of results was posted so it could not be […]
Farmers Market Offers Stiff Competition to France
France is the quintessential market-goers paradise. Traditional street markets flourish in every small town and all over Paris – with garden-fresh produce and every possible product. But why not save the travel budget because Greenbelt ain’t playing no deuxième fiddle. The Greenbelt Farmers Market announces its ninth year of operation starting Sunday, May 8 – […]
Recreation Budget, Goals Reviewed by City Council
The recreation budget accounts for roughly 16 percent of City Manager Michael McLaughlin’s proposed budget with expenditures of $4.36 million for Fiscal Year 2017. From that budget, the department operates four recreation centers (the Youth Center, Springhill Lake Recreation Center, the Skate Park and Schrom Hills Park), the Greenbelt Aquatic and Fitness Center and the […]
No Pulitzer for the News Review
In January, the Greenbelt News Review submitted an entry for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. We have no history of self-promoting behavior and can scarcely be accused of operating on a global scale, but it seemed worth a try. The Pulitzer folks were generous in answering our neophyte questions and even letting us […]