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27 May 2020

Committee’s Tough Decision Cancels Labor Day Festival

by Gary Childs

The Greenbelt Labor Day Festival has been a mainstay of the community and its core Festival event since 1955 when it was first started as a way to raise funds to build a youth center. This past week, the Greenbelt … Read More

27 May 2020

City and American Legion Offer Online Memorial Day Program

by Butch Hicks

Each year on Memorial Day the Greenbelt American Legion family joins the greater Greenbelt community, political leaders and others to acknowledge the sacrifice of those veterans who died answering their nation’s call. Because of assembly and communications constraints caused by … Read More

27 May 2020

City and Museum Work Out How to Manage Future Roles

by Matthew Arbach

At a May 20 worksession with the Greenbelt City Council, the Friends of the Greenbelt Museum (FOGM) shared the details of their upcoming budget, proposed operation changes and renovation plans for a new visitor/education center at 10-A Crescent Road. Even … Read More

27 May 2020

Greenbelt Rec Offers Vibrant Virtual Summer Arts Classes

by Chris Cherry, Nicole DeWald

A wealth of creative art experiences will be at community members’ fingertips this summer, as popular teaching artists lead a full slate of Greenbelt Recreation classes online. In lieu of the traditional quarterly activity guide, patrons can view the Summer … Read More

20 May 2020

City Budget Tightens Under Pressure from the Pandemic

by Diane Oberg

Despite some frustration with online meetings, disagreement on the issues and an occasional undeleted expletive, the Greenbelt City Council, at its final budget worksession on May 18, informally agreed upon how to address the $3.7 million hole in the proposed … Read More

20 May 2020

Rena Hull: Pioneer Daughter, 1999 Outstanding Citizen

by Rick Ransom with Kateri Baker

Irena “Rena” Hull, daughter of pioneer Greenbelters Otto and Evelyn Voigt, died in the hospital on April 23 at the age of 78. Her death was not from COVID-19 but from complications related to a fall and to a previous … Read More

20 May 2020

Eleanor Roosevelt Students Perform Atmospheric Research

by Sara Harbison

Launching weather balloons, programming scientific instruments and having pizza parties. This is a day in the life of a student intern at the Howard University Beltsville Research Campus (HUBC). HUBC is a place where students, professors and research scientists collaborate … Read More

14 May 2020

DC Vegan y MCF se asocian para alimentar a Greenbelt

by Callie Tansill-Suddath, traducido por Carolina Napp-Avelli

Hace unas semanas, Michael Moon, Leah Moon y Jeff Warner ni se conocían. Ahora, los tres están colaborando para alimentar a los residentes de Greenbelt durante la pandemia COVID-19. La iniciativa Feed Greenbelt (Alimentar a Greenbelt) ofrece comidas preparadas para … Read More

14 May 2020

Council Reviews Pre-pandemic Public Safety Budget of $12M

by Diane Oberg

Greenbelt spends more on public safety than any other budget category. It accounts for more than a third of the expenditures in the Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) budget proposed by City Manager Nicole Ard. Under her proposal, the city would … Read More

14 May 2020

DC Vegan and MCF Church Partner to Feed Greenbelt

by Callie Tansill-Suddath

A few weeks ago, Michael Moon, Leah Moon and Jeff Warner were strangers. Now, the three are collaborating to feed residents of Greenbelt during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Feed Greenbelt initiative offers prepared meals for pickup at the New Deal … Read More

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