Four Greenbelters Tackle Paris To Mont St. Michel Bike Ride
From mid-May to early June, two News Review couples, Jerry and Letty Bonnell and Rick and Cathie Meetre, rode rented e-bikes from Paris to Mont St. Michel along a French national cycle trail called the Véloscénie – a distance of about 400 km (250 miles). With much of the mileage on rail trails or separated […]
Greenbelt Police Officers Honored
Chief Richard Bowers, during the Greenbelt City Council meeting on August 12, applauded police department employees for their actions during the April incident at Schrom Hills Park when five teens were wounded by gunfire. These employees went above and beyond normal service in terms of providing life-saving first aid, securing the scene and performing the […]
Greenbelt Labor Day Festival Schedule for Friday, Saturday
At 6 p.m. on Friday, August 30, the Ferris wheel starts turning and the grills start sizzling as the Greenbelt Labor Day Festival returns to the town center. Carnival rides, bingo, fair food, sporting events, music performances, the big parade and a chance to connect with your community and neighbors are all just around the […]
PGCPS Bus Transportation Update
Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) outlined changes last week to better streamline school bus transportation ahead of the upcoming 2024-25 school year. These updates come after the many problems with bus transportation that marred the first day of the 2023-24 school year. An ensuing audit of the PGCPS transportation system identified specific issues […]
Prince George’s Public Schools Will Open Monday, August 26
For the 2024-2025 school year, Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) has a new student information system, Synergy. Parents are asked to create an account in Synergy’s ParentVUE portal, where they can register students for classes and access information on class schedules, test scores, attendance and transportation. Resources for learning to use ParentVUE can be […]
Kyla Finds Happiness Here
The Greenbelt News Review asked me to find the five happiest places in Greenbelt, in honor of Newsweek’s recent announcement of Maryland ranking as the second happiest state in the nation. This was kind of a big ask, in part because I haven’t been that happy recently. But I have often been told that if […]
Greenbelt Labor Day Festival Celebrates 70 Years of Fun
The Labor Day Festival is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. Started in 1955 as a fundraiser to build the Youth Center, the Festival has not skipped a year since – even surviving the pandemic in a pared-down partly-online format. By 1960 sufficient funds had been raised for construction to begin, and in the following […]
Greenbelt Again Celebrates Annual National Night Out
Hundreds of Greenbelt residents, the Greenbelt Police Department and the Greenbelt Volunteer Fire Department gathered across the city on Tuesday, August 6 to celebrate National Night Out, an annual community event held on the first Tuesday in August. The night out is aimed at promoting “police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie,” according to the National Night […]
Council Considers Non-Citizen Voting in Greenbelt Elections
On August 7, Greenbelt City Council convened a worksession with the city’s Board of Elections (BOE) on the possibility of introducing amendments to the City Charter and City Code that would allow non-citizens to vote in municipal elections. In 2023, around two-thirds of the city’s registered voters supported the idea in a non-binding question. At […]
J.Ivey, M.Riker Win At-Large P.G. County Council Primary
This article has been corrected from the print version, to add the comment from Michael Riker. Democrat Jolene Ivey and Republican Michael Riker are expected to win the August 6 Prince George’s County Council special primary election for the at-large council seat vacated by former Councilmember Mel Franklin, in unofficial results provided by the County […]