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29 Feb 2024

Franklin Park Worksession Tackles Public Safety Issues

by Cathie Meetre

In a worksession with the Greenbelt City Council on Wednesday, February 21, Franklin Park Manager Denise Knight and Laurie Bonner, vice president for operations of Fieldstone Properties (owner of Franklin Park), spoke with council about its operations in Greenbelt West. … Read More

14 Feb 2024

News Review Ups Its Game To Greenbelters, with Love

by Cathie Meetre

This week’s issue of the News Review has two special things in store for its readers. First, approximately 60 fond folks celebrated their love for family, friends and Greenbelt in rhyme and schmaltz in our Valentine’s Love Notes (pages 8, … Read More

24 Jan 2024

American Graffiti ’58 Chevy Brings Back ’73 Memories

by Cathie Meetre

On Thursday, January 18, when the movie American Graffiti was screened as part of Greenbelt Cinema’s Classic Movie series, something striking was outside the theater in Roosevelt Center. Parked just in front of the Cinema was a 1958 Chevy Impala … Read More

10 Jan 2024

Council Reopens Applications After Prior Refusals to Do So

by Cathie Meetre, Michael Zeliff

During a worksession on Wednesday, January 3, five out of the current six members of the Greenbelt City Council (with Councilmember Rodney Roberts in opposition) came to the consensus not to reopen applications for the vacant council seat (note: no … Read More

27 Dec 2023

Low Attendance, Much Criticism At Council’s First Listening Session

by Cathie Meetre

On Thursday, December 21, Greenbelt City Council held a listening session at the Springhill Lake Recreation Center gym. Its purpose was to capture the views of Greenbelt residents living in the western segment of the city on the appointment of … Read More

19 Oct 2023

Youthful Offenders Dominate Auto-related Crime Statistics

by Cathie Meetre

The big news of the Greenbelt City Council’s public safety briefing on Wednesday, October 11 was not unexpected. Crime is up overall by 34 percent, though violent crime has held steady compared to last year. The big driver for the … Read More

20 Sep 2023

Updated BEP/BARC Facility Plan Fails to Mollify Council

by Cathie Meetre

At its September 11 meeting, Greenbelt City Council discussed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) plan for the Department of the Treasury Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) facility and its upcoming final review by the National Capital Planning … Read More

14 Sep 2023

City Council Heralds Changes Prior to Forthcoming Election

by Cathie Meetre

Though perhaps neither announcement at the September 11 Greenbelt City Council meeting was entirely unexpected, both were poignant. The meeting’s biggest news, though nearly last on the agenda, was that its longest-serving member, Councilmember Judith Davis, would not run for … Read More

30 Aug 2023

Change Now Contemplated By New Deal Café and Co-op

by Cathie Meetre

The quarterly open board meeting of the New Deal Café on August 28 was attended by a crowd that filled much of the available seating in the Café’s back room. It was a lively group, not slow to voice its … Read More

30 Aug 2023

Bands, Booths, Bikes, Bingo, Burgers: It Must be Labor Day

by Cathie Meetre

The Parade itself arrives on Labor Day Monday morning. It sashays down Crescent Road from Greenhill to Southway, spits and polishes off with the police color guard, scoops up a pipe and drum corps, flourishes a frenzy of fire trucks, … Read More