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.
Enslavement began in North America when the White Lion landed in 1619 with Africans taken from Angola by English pirates and traded in Jamestown for supplies. The achievements of the descendants of those Africans have been nothing short of remarkable … Read More
Part 2 of 2 Greenbelt’s construction and the early years of life in the community were well documented by photographers employed by the federal government’s Resettlement Administration (RA) and the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which succeeded it. The Greenbelt photos … Read More
At its January 24 regular meeting, the Greenbelt City Council received the consultant’s implementation plan for a program to gather resident input regarding how to spend the money the city received under the federal American Rescue Plan. In addition, council … Read More
This article was previously published in the Bay Journal and is reprinted with permission. The Maryland forest tract owned by NASA that’s at risk of being sold to a developer has won a reprieve for now. The White House Office … Read More
On January 31, Prince George’s County Circuit Court Judge William Snoddy ruled that the new district map created by the Prince George’s County Council in November of 2021 was illegally accepted by the county council majority (6 to 3). According … Read More
Once upon a time there was a town, built by the government as a planned community, surrounded by woods far away from Washington. A town a classmate once called the “Emerald City,” where the town leaders formed a band for … Read More
Roosevelt Center merchants face a regrettably similar set of economic challenges from the new Covid-19 Omicron surge, with recovery plans put on hold once more by the recent drop of in-person traffic. The majority of the Center’s businesses, like the … Read More
It turns out my daughter Anja is pretty good at badminton. I guess that’s all right, but when I invited her to join me at Greenbelt’s badminton club on Sunday I had the script already prepared. I would be the … Read More
Felix Hass, Greenbelt resident and 10th grader at Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS), won the Best Micro Short Film award from the Taiwan International Short Film Festival in October 2021. Hass has been attending the Greenbelt Access Television (GATe) animation … Read More
Part 1 of a series Greenbelt’s construction and the early years of life in the community were well documented by photographers employed by the federal government’s Resettlement Administration (RA) and the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which succeeded it. The Greenbelt … Read More
