ACE Awards Showcase Student Achievement
The Greenbelt Advisory Committee on Education (ACE) Awards Ceremony was a highlight of the May 23 meeting of the Greenbelt City Council. All available seats were filled for this annual event as parents, students, principals and teachers celebrated the selection of the outstanding students. ACE committee member Melinda Brady opened the presentation, mentioning that the […]
Computers, General Assembly, Trees Keep City Council Busy
Although the presentation of the 2016 Student Awards by the city’s Advisory Committee on Education (ACE)–which will be reported in a separate story–dominated the May 23 regular meeting of the Greenbelt City Council, quite a few other items were taken up on the agenda as well. Most were additional presentations, including ones from the American […]
GSA’s Increased Parking Need For FBI Dismays City Council
The city council’s regular meeting of April 11 opened with an opportunity for councilmembers and residents to recognize the work of the communications specialists of the Greenbelt Police Department. Twenty-five years ago the Congress and president of the United States designated the second week in April as National Public Safety Telecommunications Week, a time to […]
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 […]