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1 May 2024

PGCPS Holds Information Session On Coming Transportation Changes

by Madi Eades

On Saturday, April 27, the Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) administration held an information session at Eleanor Roosevelt High School about transportation changes coming this fall. Although this was the seventh of nine meetings scheduled, it was the first … Read More

1 May 2024

Circuit Court Judges: A Primer

by Kit Slack, Streetcar Suburbs Publishing

In the primary election May 14, voters will decide which four out of five candidates will be judges for Maryland’s Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. Circuit court in Maryland is the trial court for major civil cases and serious … Read More

24 Apr 2024

FBI HQ to Move “Expeditiously,” With Occupancy Planned for 2036

by Anna Bedford-Dillow

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) “intends to expeditiously move forward” with the new FBI Headquarters in Greenbelt, states a new report. It will utilize the GSA’s existing balance of approximately $845 million and submit further requests in future fiscal … Read More

24 Apr 2024

Senior Skip Day Ends in Tragic Shooting at Schrom Hills Park

by Anna Bedford-Dillow

Friday, April 19 was Senior Skip Day for Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) senior students. This year the day ended in an eruption of violence at Schrom Hills Park, leaving five teens shot, two of whom remain in the … Read More

24 Apr 2024

Inside Greenbelt’s Animal Shelter: Unique for a City, a Labor of Love

by Anna Bedford-Dillow

April 30 is Adopt a Shelter Pet Day. This week we bring you a closer look at Greenbelt’s Animal Shelter, which hasn’t been open to visitors since the pandemic, as well as some of the animals awaiting homes there. The … Read More

24 Apr 2024

Antenna-on-a-Stick to Provide Cell Coverage During Water Tower Fix

by Cathie Meetre

In a worksession on Tuesday, April 9, Greenbelt City Council heard how the replacement of the water tower near the intersection of Lastner Lane and Ridge Road means that the T-Mobile cellphone antenna must be temporarily relocated to continue effective … Read More

17 Apr 2024

Some Greenbelters Search For Best in Eclipse Totality

One of the News Review’s favorite astronomers, Jerry Bonnell, was in the line of totality in Vienna, Illinois. Bonnell tells us it is pronounced VI-enna, (VI emphasized and rhyming with “Hi”) and speculates that this may be to avoid confusion … Read More

17 Apr 2024

Returning Home: Greenbelters Are Not Your Typical Boomerang Kids

by Erica Johns

Part Two of a Two-Part Story Marc Siegel, Heather Hart, Eva Garin, Hopi Auerbach, Lesley Kash, Dorothy Dobson and Jonathan Murray all moved away from their Greenbelt childhood homes, though some didn’t go far. Siegel moved from Maplewood Court to … Read More

17 Apr 2024

From Abused to Evidence to Now Adoptable: Apollo Seeks Home

by Anna Bedford-Dillow

Apollo is only one year and four months old. He’s spent most of his life at Greenbelt Animal Shelter, where he arrived last July. He had been caged and starved in a Greenbelt apartment and was days away from death … Read More

17 Apr 2024

Planning Department Budget And Ongoing Projects Review

by Cathie Meetre

With very little council comment on its FY 2025 budget, the city’s Department of Planning and Community Development got the opportunity to strut its stuff and showcase its activities. The city council worksession of April 3, as well as … Read More

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