Council Confronting Lingering Questions in Final Budget Review
After its final budget worksession on Wednesday, May 15, it appears that the Greenbelt City Council has two main questions to answer before it can adopt a budget for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY 2025), which begins July 1. These are: Should they increase the Greenbelt Cinema’s annual stipend, and should they change how funds are […]
Copland’s Greenbelt Theme Plays Live, May 21, June 2
Astonishing as it is to learn, a famous American composer wrote a theme song especially for Greenbelt. In the 1930s, the federal government hired artists and incorporated their work into the efforts of the New Deal. For a promotional film called The City, Aaron Copland wrote the score. Key scenes of the movie were filmed […]
Farmers Market Reopens With New and Old Vendors
Big splashy raindrops only briefly deterred the crowds anxious to sample the delicious wares of this season’s Farmers Market before they returned to mop up fresh greens and wholesome goodies and treats. Sheltering from the sudden rain under the New Deal Café’s canopy, market shoppers conversed with friends and neighbors again encountered with the opening […]
Tortuous Recovery from Covid Triples Cinema’s Budget Ask
Mayor Emmett Jordan welcomed Greenbelt Cinema Director Caitlin McGrath and Board Chair Cathy Jones to a worksession discussion of the Greenbelt Cinema’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget. McGrath noted that they were now in the 10th year of operation since the city awarded the nonprofit group stewardship of the Old Greenbelt Theatre, recently rebranded as Greenbelt […]
Metrobus Routes Remain for Now
The Fiscal Year 2025 budget for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) does not include the proposed cuts of some Metrobus routes, including the G12 route between the Greenbelt and New Carrollton Metro stations. Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia all increased their contributions to Metro and WMATA was able to find cost-saving […]
Charlestowne North Apartments Bought at Auction by Freddie Mac
On April 29, an auction was held to sell the Charlestowne North Apartments at 8150 Lakecrest Drive, an apartment complex that has been in receivership since February. Paul Cooper, vice president of the auction house conducting the sale, told the News Review the property was sold to the lender Freddie Mac. Last week Freddie Mac […]
Gathering at Compost Facility Showcases City Pilot Program
Midway between Earth Day and Compost Week, a warm Friday, May 3, was perfect for the ribbon cutting of the new city compost facility located at the Trinity Assembly of God church on Good Luck Road. About 50 residents, several members of council and employees of Public Works attended. Three representatives of Compost Crew, a […]
Schrom Hills Shooting, JEDI Audit Dominate April 22 Council Meeting
Apparently the public is waiting until after the various worksessions before weighing in on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget, as no one offered input at the public hearing portion of council’s Monday, April 22, meeting. Mayor Emmett Jordan noted that the full budget is available online (greenbeltmd.gov/government/city-administration/finance/city-budget) and that adoption of the budget is […]
Alsobrooks and Trone Feature In Contentious Primary Race
“Maryland emerges as 2024’s most brutal Senate primary,” declared the news site Axios this week. Greenbelters voting in the Democratic Primary will find 10 candidates running for the U.S. Senate seat, with no incumbent for the position. The retiring incumbent, Senator Ben Cardin (D), leaves an opening for which the brutal race of note is […]
14- and 16-Year-Old Arrested For Schrom Hills Shootings
At a press conference at Schrom Hills Park on Monday, April 29, Greenbelt Chief of Police Richard Bowers announced the arrest of two teenaged suspects in connection with the shooting of five young people that occurred there on April 19, during an unsanctioned Senior Skip Day gathering that drew a flash mob of around 500 […]