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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

11 Apr 2024

Seven of Greenbelt’s Children Share Memories of Homes

by Erica Johns

Part One of a Two-Part Story Secret passages, ladders and Lego house designs are among the memories of seven Greenbelters who live in their childhood homes. Hopi Auerbach and Heather Hart on Ridge Road, Dorothy Dobson and Eva Garin on … Read More

11 Apr 2024

Most Greenbelters Stayed Home To View Near-Total Solar Eclipse

by Lesley Kash, Sandy Rodgers

Light clouds on Monday, April 8, mostly dissipated in time for eclipse watchers throughout Greenbelt to clearly view the first eclipse in the area since 2017. This partial solar eclipse – with the moon blocking 89 percent of the sun, … Read More

11 Apr 2024

City Budget Stays in Bounds; Though in FY26, Maybe Not

by Diane Oberg

In presenting his budget proposal to the Greenbelt City Council on March 25, City Manager Josué Salmerón had good news. Despite earlier projections of a multimillion-dollar budget deficit in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 which begins July 1, the budget … Read More

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