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18 Dec 2019

City Council Discusses Police Tech, Opioid Suit, BEP Issue

by Grace Kathleen Todd

Along with the main topic of Cherrywood Lane’s proposed multifamily housing development, the city council discussed an array of topics at its December 9 meeting ranging from environmental preservation to police matters. In late September, council held a worksession with … Read More

18 Dec 2019

Cherrywood Housing Plan Under Review by the City

by Matthew Arbach

Representatives of the NRP Group LLC brought their detailed site plan (DSP) for their Greenbelt Metro housing development before the Greenbelt City Council at a worksession on December 2. Council reception to the proposal in 2018 was positive and included … Read More

18 Dec 2019

From the Archives: Flu Spread Means No Town Santa, Epidemic Cripples Staff

The following are excerpts from an article published in the December 17, 1943 Greenbelt Cooperator, the precursor paper to the News Review. Greenbelt will not have a community Santa Claus this year, it was announced this week and the blame … Read More

12 Dec 2019

Tree Lighting a Merry Moment To Welcome Holiday Season

by Kaitlyn Cupelli

Greenbelt’s annual Christmas tree lighting saw a great turnout on Friday, December 6. With cups of hot chocolate in hand, Greenbelt residents filled Roosevelt Center waiting for Santa to arrive and light up the community tree. Mayor Colin Byrd and … Read More

11 Dec 2019

Violent Crime Continues To Decline in Franklin Park

by Cathie Meetre

In a city council worksession on December 4 at the Franklin Park Leasing Center, Greenbelt Police Chief Richard Bowers noted that there has been a lower crime rate in the complex and his department believes that the continuing close collaboration … Read More

11 Dec 2019

GAC Celebrates 40 Years at Festive After-Production Party

by Konrad Herling, Matthew Arbach

On December 8 the Greenbelt Arts Center (GAC) celebrated its 40th anniversary with an informal gathering after a performance of The Phantom Tollbooth, attended by an audience of all ages. According to co-founder Konrad Herling, GAC was conceived as a … Read More

5 Dec 2019

Un movimiento propuesto de la Oficina de Grabado y Impresión hasta el BARC, atrajo comentarios escépticos

by Grace Kathleen Todd

Una discusión de puertas abiertas sobre un movimiento propuesto de una de las Oficinas de Grabado y Impresión de las dos instalaciones de producción desde Washington, D.C. hasta el Beltsville Agricultural El Centro de Investigación, ubicado a las afueras de … Read More

4 Dec 2019

Find Pioneer Seasonal Décor At Museum and Craft Fair

by Sheila Maffay-Tuthill

What did a Greenbelt holiday season look like in the town’s early years? The families had just moved into their shiny new government-built homes. How did they decorate? We know from our oral histories and photographs that people used whatever … Read More

4 Dec 2019

Bureau of Engraving Move To BARC Draws Feedback

by Grace Kathleen Todd

An open house discussion about a proposed move of one of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s two production facilities from Washington, D.C., to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) drew skeptical comments from the public. The event was hosted … Read More

4 Dec 2019

Council Looks at Legislative Agenda, Opioid Suit, Truck

by Kathleen Gallagher

The question of the evening was: Where did everybody go? At the meeting of the Greenbelt City Council two weeks earlier for the purpose of swearing in the new mayor and council, there was standing room only. But at the … Read More

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