La comunidad de ERHS recibe nuevas canchas de baloncesto al aire libre
Sam Brin, hermano de Sergey Brin, uno de los fundadores de Google, donó $ 150,000 a la Asociación de Padres, Maestros y Estudiantes de la Escuela Secundaria Eleanor Roosevelt (ERHS por sus siglas en inglés) para la construcción de dos nuevas canchas de baloncesto al aire libre. Ambos hermanos Brin asistieron a ERHS después de […]
City’s Maglev DEIS Review Focuses on Inflated Benefits
The City of Greenbelt filed its comments on Monday, May 24, on the Baltimore-Washington SCMaglev Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). Greenbelt’s comments, which were endorsed by the City of College Park and the Town of Landover Hills, uncovered 222 pages worth of errors and omissions in the DEIS. Chief among these is that the project’s […]
Chris Haley’s Film on Unmarked Slave Graves Has Local Origins
There didn’t seem to be a better place to walk with Chris Haley and to talk about his powerful new film Unmarked than among Greenbelt’s own unmarked stones at the historic Turner Cemetery. We met there late one Sunday afternoon to talk about the documentary, which explores the search for the burial places of enslaved […]
April 26 City Council Meeting Covers Budget, Runs Late
As previously reported, at its April 26 regular meeting the Greenbelt City Council took action on two proposed resolutions that were introduced for second reading. If it is not petitioned to referendum by the voters, one of these resolutions will convert the city’s Absentee Voting program into a full-fledged Mail-in Voting program. It will continue […]
Challengers Sweep GHI Board Election in Record Turnout
With exceptionally high voter turnout at the 2021 annual Greenbelt Homes Inc. (GHI) election, members voted for generational change on a scale the cooperative hasn’t seen in decades. None of the five members of the board of directors elected two years ago will remain in office after Thursday, May 20, when the new board is […]
El centro de Vacunación de FEMA da Su pinchazo número 100.000 el 13 de mayo
Aunque está programado para cerrar el 1 de junio, el sitio de FEMA en el Centro de Vacunación Comunitaria de Greenbelt Metro ha administrado más de 100,000 vacunas para ayudar a que el mundo se acerque a la normalidad. El jueves 13 de mayo, Ana, residente de Maryland, llegó para recibir la vacuna Johnson & […]
FEMA Vax Site at Metro Gives Its 100,000th Shot on May 13
Although the site is now scheduled to close down on Tuesday, June 1, the FEMA site at the Greenbelt Metro Community Vaccination Center has administered more than 100,000 shots to help bring the world closer to normalcy. On Thursday, May 13, Ana, a resident of Maryland, arrived for a Johnson & Johnson vaccine near the […]
Sculpture Gets a Makeover As Conservators Do a Scrub
Roosevelt Center’s Mother and Child statue got a special scrub-down last week as a team of three skilled art conservators arrived to clean and maintain Greenbelt’s beloved statue as well as the Community Center Preamble reliefs. The first step was to apply a special detergent, sodium lauryl sulfate, an anionic and non-acidic surfactant which does […]
With Three Weeks to Go, Budget Is Still Up in Air
In recent years, the Greenbelt City Council has worked out its desired changes to the city manager’s proposed budget at a final budget worksession in advance of the second public hearing on the budget so that citizens are not surprised by what is presented for adoption and have an opportunity to comment before passage. That […]
Smoothly Run Council Meeting Navigates Polarizing Agenda
The Greenbelt City Council meeting of May 10 was more to the point, more polite, less divisive and far shorter than has recently been the case, presumably as a result of discussions the week before on demeanor and process. Though still frosty, the interactions in council remained professional and relatively unmarred by discord on an […]