Niños del campamento de verano de diversión aprenden Acerca de las rutinas de bomberos y policías
Los campistas del programa Summer Fun del Springhill Lake Recreation Center aprendieron el 28 de julio que ser bombero implica mucho correr. Los bomberos y la policía de Greenbelt vinieron al campamento con demostraciones y desafíos. Con los bomberos, los campistas intentaron correr con la manguera y apagar un fuego de demostración, y disfrutaron aprendiendo […]
Summer Fun Camp Kids Learn About Fire, Police Routines
Este artículo está disponible en español en nuestra página web www.greenbeltnewsreview.com. Being a firefighter involves a whole lot of running, campers at Springhill Lake Recreation Center’s Summer Fun program learned on July 28. Greenbelt firefighters and police came to camp with demonstrations and challenges. With the firefighters, campers tried running with the hose and putting […]
Greenbelt Plaza – Phase One: Details of the Proposed Plans
The first phase of the Beltway Plaza redevelopment will replace the under-utilized parking lots at the back of Beltway Plaza along Breezewood Drive with large areas of safe pedestrian walkways and green spaces that will include new landscaping, parks and an outdoor amphitheater. All roadways will be better defined to keep cars, pedestrians and bicyclists […]
Good Neighbors Are Crucial For Increased Public Safety
How do you feel about public safety in Greenbelt? Nine Greenbelt panelists from all parts of our community discussed public safety at a forum sponsored by Connecting Across Greenbelt (CAG) and Greenbelt Racial Equity Alliance on July 22. Each panelist answered three questions: What makes you feel unsafe in your neighborhood? What makes you feel […]
750 apartamentos y nueva calle principal emerge en Beltway Plaza
Una importante y transformadora reconstrucción del Beltway Plaza Mall en un nuevo centro residencial, comercial y recreativo de uso mixto puede finalmente ponerse en marcha a fines de la primavera o principios del verano de 2022, en espera de la “puesta en marcha” final de un proceso de planificación de tres años en el que […]
750 Apartments and New Main Street Emerge at Beltway Plaza
A major transformative reconstruction of Beltway Plaza into a mixed-use residential, retail and new recreational hub may finally get underway in late Spring or early Summer 2022 pending the final “go” on a three-year planning process in which the City of Greenbelt has played a key role. The Greenbelt City Council will be asked for […]
New Deal Café – Take Four? A Cooperative Point of View
There’s more to the New Deal’s new deal than meets the eye. One can, perhaps, take for granted that two cooperatives cooperating confers the square of the benefit from just one cooperative operating alone. In fact, however, the realities are, if that’s possible, even more intriguing. The new Café venture is not just a feel-good […]
Capital Bikeshare: A Test Ride
Like everyone else I have noticed Capital Bikeshare rental stations popping up around town and unlike everyone else I’ve thought, “Now there is something I will never do, rent a bike from one station and ride it jauntily through the streets to another station.” Not that I am opposed to this in any way, quite […]
Greenbelter Gets to Be Extra In Upcoming Film on Slavery
“There are three rules to being an extra in a movie,” my brother, an experienced extra, told me. “Overact in the background, look directly at the camera and get between the camera and the main action as often as possible.” I was on my way to Wilmington, N.C., where my daughter Anja, an Eleanor Roosevelt […]
El nuevo método de votación se une al antiguo Los para las elecciones de la ciudad de 2021
No es frecuente que Greenbelt adopte nuevos métodos para votar en las elecciones municipales, sin embargo el repertorio ha aumentado de forma lenta pero segura a lo largo de los años. Después de las papeletas de votación hubo un largo período de máquinas de palanca, seguido de otras máquinas. Luego, los tiempos de votación se […]