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9 May 2024

Alsobrooks and Trone Feature In Contentious Primary Race

by Anna Bedford-Dillow

“Maryland emerges as 2024’s most brutal Senate primary,” declared the news site Axios this week. Greenbelters voting in the Democratic Primary will find 10 candidates running for the U.S. Senate seat, with no incumbent for the position. The retiring incumbent, … Read More

1 May 2024

14- and 16-Year-Old Arrested For Schrom Hills Shootings

by Melissa Sites

At a press conference at Schrom Hills Park on Monday, April 29, Greenbelt Chief of Police Richard Bowers announced the arrest of two teenaged suspects in connection with the shooting of five young people that occurred there on April 19, … Read More

1 May 2024

Budget Proposal Holds Line On Public Works Spending

by Diane Oberg

City Manager Josué Salmerón’s budget proposal calls for a 2.7 percent increase in the Public Works budget, with expenditures increasing from $4.586 million in the adopted budget for this fiscal year to $4.711 million in FY25, which begins on July … Read More

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

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