The paper, published by the Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Association, Inc., was established in 1937 shortly after the construction of Greenbelt, one of The New Deal Green Towns. It has been published weekly without interruption since that time and is delivered free to most Greenbelt residents.
Round two of the effort to resolve the problem created by Pepco’s increase of electric bills for the Greenbelt theater by more than five-fold and back-dating the increase for one year took place at the Greenbelt City Council worksession held … Read More
New City Manager Nicole Ard had her first City Manager Update meeting with the city council on February 6. The major business items of this meeting, including the midyear financial picture and forecasts for Fiscal Year 2018, are covered in … Read More
Once the item reached their agenda on February 13, the Greenbelt City Council needed no convincing to agree to oppose the Southern Management Company’s concept plan for a 25-story high rise apartment on the Lakeside North tract as presented at … Read More
The willow oak in front of the Library was dying and there was nothing the city consultants could do about it. On February 7, the tree was cut down by city contractors. It was necessary, said Horticultural Supervisor Brian Townsend, … Read More
The Greenbelt Museum is creating a short film (approximately 10 minutes) to accompany the current exhibition, The Knowing Hands That Carve This Stone: The New Deal Art of Lenore Thomas Straus. As part of the film, the Museum is seeking … Read More
Author David Cooper and illustrator Lucy Dirksen will be having a book signing for their self-published novel A Glimpse Through the Mists, as well as an exhibition of Dirksen’s artwork, on Sunday, February 26 at 2 to 4 p.m. at … Read More
Pearl Buck once wrote, “Love cannot be forced. Love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven unasked and unsought.” Greenbelter Cassandra Hetzel has written The Bow and The Butterfly. Hetzel is a member of the Greenbelt Spontaneous … Read More
November of this year will mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of this newspaper. Since 1937, every week has seen an issue – through war, through storms, through unrest and turmoil. The paper takes its role seriously as an … Read More
Rather than using a science textbook to teach astronomy to second graders at Greenbelt Elementary School (GES), students became the Perseus constellation. For the past few weeks, local dancer Angella Foster and her alight dance theater led “movement labs” as … Read More
