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 very well done but it serves the important purpose of educating viewers about what we could lose if the proposed ...

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 walking on the boardwalk and eating good Mexican food outdoors. Read and see lots more about it in my 2020 ...

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. My other blog, the team effort GardenRant.com that launched in 2006, is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a new design, two ...

The recently released d­raft environmental impact statement forecasts that a proposed maglev—a magnetic-levitation rail line—would have an insignificant impact on road congestion in the Baltimore-Washington region. The maglev’s ability to reduce car traffic in the region would be far smaller than one part in thirty, the ratio of red to black cars in this image. This information blows up one ...

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 the earth to nurture new plants and flowers by participating in one or more of the ways listed here. Why ...

Screen shot dated January 5, 2021 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 saw the latest drawing by Greenbelt’s best known sidewalk artist, whose works I’ve been ...

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 20 years of Stick Art at the New Deal Café, Paul Downs presents his latest show, “Bridges,” the first ever ...

Travel times recorded by Google Maps on Saturday 12/19 at 11 am. 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 Cherry, the pandemic has steered me toward video-making ...

By Guest post by Owen Kelley (This article was originally posted to the Prince George’s County Issues Forum on the Sierra Club website.) The Sierra Club is devoted to fighting climate change, and it does not take kindly to companies greenwashing projects that would actually increase greenhouse gas emission. For this reason, Sierra Club members should take a close look at ...

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 it serves to “assure the community that all Greenbelt institutions and facilities are keeping watch through the pandemic and looking forward ...

The pandemic hit Greenbelt Arts Center like it hit indoor entertainment venues across the state and most of the country – like a ton of bricks. Like a destroyer of all plans, including most of its ambitious and impressive 2020-2021 season of 12 shows between August 2020 and July 2021. But they’ve found a way to thrive despite everything. According ...

An age-old custom in the blogosphere (as old as things can be in that world) is to link to other relevant bloggers in a blogroll, like this one on the Blog page of GreenbeltOnline listing all known Greenbelt bloggers. (So if you know of any blogs by a Greenbelt resident, let me know in a comment here and it’ll be ...

The weather’s so mild today, Greenbelters can eat outdoors! Something to be thankful for right there. Honestly, I started a Thanksgiving post about all the things I’m grateful for in Greenbelt that we’ve gone without this terrible year. Live music at the New Deal, live music in Roosevelt Center, movies at the OGT, live theater at the GAC, and eating ...

With the great cycling weather we’ve been having, I stopped by my bike shop of choice – Greenbelt-owned Proteus Bicycles in College Park – and discovered something new – their Proteus Brews coffee shop is now open, and Proteus has expanded winter hours. There will be indoor seating after the pandemic but in the meantime, the outdoor tables are under ...

Due to the pandemic, Greenbelt had to forego its grand Labor Day Festival this year, and most of its Halloween festivities, too. No Kids Costume Parade and Judging. No Pumpkin Carving and Pumpkin Walk. But decorations and scary displays were as elaborate as ever! So we thank Greenbelt’s Halloween fanatics for all their work and creativity. I hope I’ve captured ...

With so many regular voting places closed this year, it was nice that all of us voted at the same place on Election Day, or dropped off our ballots there in advance. The name Eleanor Roosevelt inspires so many of us. But look what’s missing – Steny Hoyer signs! I found just one on the premises, but there was a ...

If you haven’t voted yet, DO IT! Here’s how: EARLY VOTING CONTINUES THRU TOMORROW – MONDAY, NOV 2 FROM 7 AM TO 8 PM The closest location to Greenbelt is just 9 minutes away (on a Sunday) – DuVal High School 9880 Good Luck Road Lanham MD. Voters have been reporting short lines to Greenbelt Facebook groups. Early Voting Wait ...

The final video garden tour of the season walks the viewer through the plant-packed garden of a true plant geek – Rachel Channon. She knows ALL the Latin names of her plants. I’d admired Rachel’s garden for years. I’ve also admired the blues music of Ed Crowley (of Fast Eddie and the Slowpokes fame), and was thrilled when he agreed ...

Who doesn’t love a wedding story – especially one suddenly upended by the COVID-19 shutdown? For this wedding story we follow a couple creatively doing a 180 in their wedding plans, pandemic be damned. Shayna Skolnik first met Eddie Gonzales at a scientific conference in San Francisco (he worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and she for her own company ...

Photo by Dean Boyd The New Deal Caf‌é recently completed its fund-raising auction, with over 100 offerings and over $14,000 in income to help them weather this long national nightmare for restaurants, especially the ones featuring entertainment. Music at the New Deal attracts people from around the DMV and beyond and has won the Caf‌é many regional awards and accolades ...