Budget Proposal Holds Line On Public Works Spending
City Manager Josué Salmerón’s budget proposal calls for a 2.7 percent increase in the Public Works budget, with expenditures increasing from $4.586 million in the adopted budget for this fiscal year to $4.711 million in FY25, which begins on July 1. A breakout of expenditures by major budget category is shown in the table on […]
PGCPS Holds Information Session On Coming Transportation Changes
On Saturday, April 27, the Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) administration held an information session at Eleanor Roosevelt High School about transportation changes coming this fall. Although this was the seventh of nine meetings scheduled, it was the first to be held after the new times were announced. The changes are part of Superintendent […]
Circuit Court Judges: A Primer
In the primary election May 14, voters will decide which four out of five candidates will be judges for Maryland’s Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. Circuit court in Maryland is the trial court for major civil cases and serious criminal cases, along with those involving juveniles and family court disputes. Judges on the ballot […]
FBI HQ to Move “Expeditiously,” With Occupancy Planned for 2036
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) “intends to expeditiously move forward” with the new FBI Headquarters in Greenbelt, states a new report. It will utilize the GSA’s existing balance of approximately $845 million and submit further requests in future fiscal years “for construction and fit out activities.” Despite the Inspector General’s ongoing probe, President Biden’s […]
Senior Skip Day Ends in Tragic Shooting at Schrom Hills Park
Friday, April 19 was Senior Skip Day for Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) senior students. This year the day ended in an eruption of violence at Schrom Hills Park, leaving five teens shot, two of whom remain in the hospital. The day is a tradition dating back decades in which seniors skip school for […]
Inside Greenbelt’s Animal Shelter: Unique for a City, a Labor of Love
April 30 is Adopt a Shelter Pet Day. This week we bring you a closer look at Greenbelt’s Animal Shelter, which hasn’t been open to visitors since the pandemic, as well as some of the animals awaiting homes there. The Greenbelt Animal Shelter opened in 2007. It was to be a temporary structure, in place […]
Antenna-on-a-Stick to Provide Cell Coverage During Water Tower Fix
In a worksession on Tuesday, April 9, Greenbelt City Council heard how the replacement of the water tower near the intersection of Lastner Lane and Ridge Road means that the T-Mobile cellphone antenna must be temporarily relocated to continue effective cellphone and data service to Greenbelt. Tim Dwyer, a representative of the company NB+C, which […]
Some Greenbelters Search For Best in Eclipse Totality
One of the News Review’s favorite astronomers, Jerry Bonnell, was in the line of totality in Vienna, Illinois. Bonnell tells us it is pronounced VI-enna, (VI emphasized and rhyming with “Hi”) and speculates that this may be to avoid confusion with a city of the same name in Austria. He took the photo above of […]
Returning Home: Greenbelters Are Not Your Typical Boomerang Kids
Part Two of a Two-Part Story Marc Siegel, Heather Hart, Eva Garin, Hopi Auerbach, Lesley Kash, Dorothy Dobson and Jonathan Murray all moved away from their Greenbelt childhood homes, though some didn’t go far. Siegel moved from Maplewood Court to then-Springhill Lake Apartments and College Park while attending the University of Maryland; his first homes […]
From Abused to Evidence to Now Adoptable: Apollo Seeks Home
Apollo is only one year and four months old. He’s spent most of his life at Greenbelt Animal Shelter, where he arrived last July. He had been caged and starved in a Greenbelt apartment and was days away from death when he was discovered and rescued by Greenbelt officers last summer. In the following months […]