Charlestowne North Lender Files For Foreclosure and Receivership
Residents of the troubled Charlestowne North apartment building saw their first concrete steps toward improving their living conditions last week, when they learned from Greenbelt City Manager Josué Salmerón and Mayor Emmett Jordan that lender Freddie Mac filed for foreclosure and emergency receivership against the building owner on January 31 and February 2, 2024. The […]
Council Receives an Update For Buddy Attick Park Plan
The Greenbelt City Council held a worksession on January 31 on the Master Plan for Buddy Attick Park. This is the third public meeting on the plan with about a dozen community members attending in person as well as members of the Park and Recreation Advisory Board. The goal of the Master Plan is to […]
Recycling Centers Drowning In Rampant Illegal Dumping
The city’s three recycling centers are being inundated with large volumes of illegal dumping ranging from nonresidential volumes of oil, hazardous materials (including hydrochloric acid), furniture, construction debris and more. This is costing the city a lot of money in both staff time and disposal costs. Council has scheduled a March 13 worksession to begin […]
Council Appoints Amy Knesel
On January 24, during a special meeting, Greenbelt City Council voted to appoint Amy Knesel to fill the open council seat. Interviews with five candidates for the seat had been held the night before. Knesel has lived in Greenbelt since 2013 and been an active volunteer in the community since then. She spearheaded the Greenbelt […]
New Deal Café’s Precarious Financial Situation Continues
The New Deal Café (NDC) remains in a precarious financial situation despite the recent contract renewal with the Greenbelt Consumer Cooperative (also known as the Greenbelt Co-op Supermarket and Pharmacy) to continue as the NDC’s food and beverage vendor. As reported in the January 18 issue, the NDC and Co-op Supermarket recently agreed to a […]
Plan to Move Dora Kennedy School Surprises Principal, Community
On January 10, the Greenbelt City Council held a worksession with Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) Superintendent Millard House II and several members of his team (see article on page 6 for more on the worksession). That evening House and his team shared news that the county has a plan to move Dora Kennedy […]
New Exhibition Brings Together Quilting, Fashion and Design Artists
Greenbelters are invited to attend an opening reception on Sunday, February 4, 1 to 3 p.m. for the new exhibition, PIECED: Fiber Arts by Fashion Designer Venus Stanton and the Uhuru Quilters Guild at the Community Center Art Gallery. PIECED brings together the work of nine artists of different generations and aesthetics who use similar […]
City Council Interviews Five Applicants for Vacant Seat
On Tuesday, January 23, the Greenbelt City Council interviewed the five candidates seeking to fill the seat left empty by the death of Councilmember Ric Gordon shortly after his re-election to a two-year term. The five candidates are Matthew Inzeo, Amy Knesel, Kevin Lockhart, Leon Schachter and Julie Winters. The only new candidate in the […]
Greenbelt Will Celebrate Black History through Arts in February
The theme for this year’s Black History Month programs is African Americans and the Arts. Black Americans, Caribbeans and Africans have contributed to fashion, literature, spoken word, dance, visual and performing arts, painting/fine arts, architecture, music and many other artistic forms that have influenced America and preserved cultural traditions through the arts. This year, in […]
Watch Out: Valentines Day 2024 Is Coming. Get Ready!
Members of the News Review staff, far from being the hard-boiled reporters you might expect, are really a bunch of incurable romantics. Each year, we publish a special Valentines issue, tastefully embellished with hearts, puppies, roses, kittens and sometimes bicycles made for two. The ads flit from loving hearts across Greenbelt to friends, family, […]