I’ve been enjoying making videos lately, especially since the pandemic made in-person garden-touring impossible for a while. Mostly I’ve videoed other Greenbelt gardens but last fall I made this one of my own front garden’s make-over – I replaced an … Read More
Help us archive Greenbelt’s experience of the Brood X Cicadas by sending us your photos and videos to add to the collection. (Photos are best sent at 1,000 pixels width, mailed to editor@greenbeltonline.org.) Or tag Greenbelt Online when you post … Read More
Last summer we reported on how the New Deal Cafe is weathering the pandemic., With life starting to resume here in Greenbelt, it’s time for an update. What We Miss Like so many Greenbelters and music-lovers across the DMV, I … Read More
Greenbelters may be gearing up for their happiest spring ever – we’re SO damn happy to be able to gather outside again!! Still safely, of course. Drumming for Wellness What a spirit-booster it was to see community drumming in Roosevelt … Read More
(Originally published in the Greenbelt News Review.) Enjoy spring and fellow Greenbelters in the spacious and beautiful lakeside garden of Mary Lou Williamson from 10 to 4 on Sunday, April 25 (using our rain date, since Saturday’s forecast isn’t promising).The … Read More
The goal is super-low-maintenance I’m sure you all recognize this 21 by 11-foot island bed around the GHI sign at Ridge and Hamilton Roads. It’s very prominent and as of yesterday morning, half-full of weeds. And here it is after … Read More
Regular customers of the New Deal Cafe and fans of live music generally are SO eager to hear music in person again – not on Zoom, thanks – that they’re willing to DRIVE to get to it. Which is what … Read More
Fun news! Greenbelt Access Television today announced the winners of its inaugural Rose Award for Best Greenbelt Community Videos (great idea!) and honestly, I’m thrilled! 1st Place – Walking the Maglev Path by Catherine Plaisant This video is not only … Read More
In the last few days of delicious spring weather I’ve hit the road – to these day-trip destinations safe enough for me super-cautious senior like me. North Beach, Maryland About 45 minutes from Greenbelt, North Beach is my favorite for … Read More
Loyal readers may have noticed a pause in new articles here on the Greenbelt Online Blog in the last few weeks (except for the latest in Owen Kelley’s brilliant research about the maglev) and I’m here to tell you why. … Read More
by Hally Ahearn, Beth LeaMond and Susan Harris The City of Greenbelt currently supports several opportunities for residents to recycle organic matter, to keep food scraps from creating methane at the landfill. You can participate in returning food scraps to … Read More
I was looking for some way to follow the countdown to the Inauguration, and found this one that will count down anything but was handily preset for January 20. I saved it to my phone’s home screen. But then I … Read More
Chrissy Wilkin, art teacher and art coordinator for the New Deal Cafe, held the cafe’s first-ever completely virtual art reception – for Paul Downs’s “Bridges,” now on display in the Cafe’s windows. In the announcement, Chrissy wrote: In celebration of … Read More
Since summer, I’ve taken a few day-trips to North Beach, Maryland, just an hour away but boy, what a change of scene. The water, small lapping waves, seagulls, and a sparse number of other humans. A safe respite. Like Chris … Read More
These are the faces of many of our Greenbelt city staffers and nonprofit service providers, seen lighting candles in the window of their facility and waving to the camera for a special holiday video. The YouTube text explains that … Read More
