Local Birders Again Take Part In Continent-wide Bird Survey
It was inching toward 4 a.m. on Sunday, June 13, and this reporter and Elaine Nakash were scrambling to get on the road. The two News Review staffers were heading to Carroll County, Maryland, to conduct a Breeding Bird Survey route and needed to be at the route’s starting point, ready to go, by 30 […]
El Concejo reflexiona sobre los altos depósitos de seguridad y la reconfiguración de los distritos escolares
El alcalde Colin Byrd había sugerido exigir a los propietarios que permitan a los inquilinos entrantes tener la opción de pagar su depósito de seguridad dentro de los tres primeros meses si el depósito es más del 60 por ciento del alquiler mensual. En la reunión del Concejo Municipal de Greenbelt del 14 de junio, […]
New Deal Café and Greenbelt Co-op Supermarket Sign Historic Contract
On Friday, June 18, New Deal Café Board President Michael Hartman and Greenbelt Co-op Supermarket Board President Bill Jones finalized an exciting collaboration between the two longtime community cooperatives. In the agreement, the Café has contracted with the Co-op Supermarket to manage the Café’s food and beverage operations for a two-year period, with the option […]
Juneteenth at Franklin Park’s 3 Sisters Garden Rededication
Behind the Springhill Lake Recreation Center there’s a garden that’s at once formal and playful in design. At the garden’s center is a wooden sculpture, showing stylized stalks of corn and birds. The raised beds form a circle around the sculpture with paving stones acting like connecting spokes. This is one of Greenbelt’s Three Sisters […]
Fireworks Real and Figurative As Council Seeks Normality
At its June 7 regular meeting, the Greenbelt City Council moved toward normality on a couple of fronts – adopting the county’s policies on Covid-19 precautions and hoping to be able to host the July 4 fireworks once again – and generated its own fireworks over hiring a parliamentarian. Council also met the new assistant […]
Trails, Environment, Covid Recovery Engage Council
In a cordial and constructive council meeting on Monday, June 14, city recreational facilities arose in a number of contexts. One focal point was the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) trail where the city has now received two invoices from WMATA charging $50K and $107K, respectively, for “required review fees.” A Greek chorus of […]
Los desalojos ahora amenazan a 500 o más hogares de Greenbelt
Las audiencias y los casos en el Tribunal de Propietarios e Inquilinos de Prince George en Hyasttville se han multiplicado con el próximo fin de la moratoria federal del Centro para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) el 30 de junio y la moratoria de Maryland sobre desalojos […]
Bee, Bird Houses at the Lake Are Raina’s Eagle Scout Work
Have you noticed the new birdhouses as you jog around the Lake at Buddy Attick Park? Or when you were having a reflective moment on the peninsula? And what are those other houses near the birdhouses? Those are bee houses, designed to serve as homes for solitary bees. There are six houses in all stationed […]
City Council Adopts Budget After Procedural Standoff
In the wee hours of Tuesday, June 8, the Greenbelt City Council finally passed the budget for Fiscal Year 2022, which starts July 1. Council came very close to not passing a budget, which the city charter requires to be approved no later than June 10, until Councilmember Rodney Roberts relented on a procedural issue […]
Greenbelt Library Is Now Open under Phase 3 Plan
The Greenbelt Library is officially open under Phase 3 guidelines as of Monday, June 14. Librarian Rebecca Oxley has felt the absence of the usual activity that happened at the Library pre-pandemic. “I missed interacting face to face with the community and getting a sense of what the community needs,” she said. Oxley reflected on […]