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18 Sep 2024

McCarl Dental Marks 100 Years; Four Generations of Dentistry

by Deanna Dawson

The McCarl Dental Practice is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. James W. McCarl started it off. He was born in Mapleton Depot, Pa., in 1895 and at age 15 went to Washington, D.C., where he found work and … Read More

27 Mar 2024

Women of Greenbelt Past – Fredericka Martin: Finding A Home Everywhere She Went

by Deanna Dawson

Fredericka Martin came to Greenbelt in April of 1939 to be the supervising nurse at the new Greenbelt hospital. Born in 1905 in Cooperstown, N.Y., Martin graduated nursing school in Christ Hospital in New Jersey and served as supervisor and … Read More

14 Feb 2024

ERHS Students Again Participate in National History Day Contest

by Deanna Dawson

Students at Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) participated in a National History Day competition for the first time in more than 10 years. The local event took place on January 31 after being postponed by snow from its originally scheduled … Read More

25 May 2023

Greenbelt’s Marigza Conserved Featured WWII Photo Album

by Deanna Dawson

Greenbelt resident Anne Marigza, a conservator at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), did behind-the-scenes work on a WWII-era photo album that is the center of a play now onstage at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Harman Hall. The play, Tectonic … Read More

23 Nov 2022

Our Newspaper Turns 85 But Its Name Is Not Yet 70

by Deanna Dawson

The Greenbelt News Review turns 85 years old on November 24 (coincidentally Thanksgiving Day this year), but the paper’s name dates back only to 1954. The paper was first called the Greenbelt Cooperator, a name the Journalistic Club selected as … Read More

31 Aug 2022

Disused Buildings on BARC Are Proposed for Demolition

by Deanna Dawson

On July 27, 2022, the USDA Agricultural Research Service released an Environmental Assessment (EA) of the proposed demolition of 117 buildings at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC). The EA states that the purpose of the proposed action is to … Read More

29 Jun 2022

Candidates for County Council, Congress Give Views at Forum

by Deanna Dawson

Donna Edwards and Glenn Ivey, Democratic candidates for U.S. Representative for Maryland Congressional District 4, participated in a forum on Sunday, June 26, at the Greenbriar Community Building in Greenbelt East. Sponsored by the Eleanor & Franklin Roosevelt Democratic Club … Read More

7 Apr 2022

Women Played Important Roles In Shaping Life in Early Greenbelt

by Deanna Dawson

Household and shopping tips, recipes, introductions of new residents, society items, news of women’s activities and organizations – these were some of the things covered on the women’s page(s) in the Greenbelt Cooperator. The Mrs. Greenbelt section, which appeared in … Read More

3 Feb 2022

One of the FSA Photographers Lived in Greenbelt for a Time

by Deanna Dawson

Part 2 of 2 Greenbelt’s construction and the early years of life in the community were well documented by photographers employed by the federal government’s Resettlement Administration (RA) and the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which succeeded it. The Greenbelt photos … Read More

20 Jan 2022

Photographers of Early Greenbelt Also Covered Poverty, War & More

by Deanna Dawson

Part 1 of a series Greenbelt’s construction and the early years of life in the community were well documented by photographers employed by the federal government’s Resettlement Administration (RA) and the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which succeeded it. The Greenbelt … Read More