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 […]
Labor Day Committee Works Toward Festive Fun This Fall
The Greenbelt Labor Day Festival Committee is hard at work planning a weekend of events for the 2021 Labor Day Festival. Whether online or in-person, the following events will take place: Outstanding Citizen, Craft Fair, Information Day and Photo Show. Greenbelt Elementary School’s PTA will also host their annual book sale in designated yards and […]
PSAC Completes Its Report On Mayor’s Police Reform Bill
The Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC) has released its report on Mayor Colin Byrd’s Fair and Just Policing Act, a process that began in October 2020 at the Greenbelt City Council’s request. PSAC made recommendations to specific general orders, which direct the Greenbelt Police Department’s (GPD) day-to-day operations, with no recommendation for an ordinance. PSAC […]