Greenbelt News Review

11/13/2025

Greenbelt Anticipates Return Of Career Firefighters in February

This month Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad will be fully staffed with career firefighters for the first time since they were pulled on June 30, 2024. City officials now anticipate Greenbelt will also celebrate the return of career firefighters, likely in February.

Read more here: https://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/news-stories/greenbelt-anticipates-return-of-career-firefighters-in-february/

11/13/2025

NASA Warned to Halt Goddard Closures; But Building 11 Is Next

On Monday, November 10, Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), ranking Democrat on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, sent a letter to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Acting Administrator Sean Duffy demanding that NASA “halt any and all laboratory, facility and building closure and relocation activities at Goddard as well as the relocation, disposal, excessing or repurposing of any specialized equipment or mission-related capabilities, hardware and systems, and it must do so now.” Our sources say more closures were underway Wednesday.

Read more here: https://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/news-stories/nasa-warned-to-halt-goddard-closures-but-building-11-is-next/

11/12/2025

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11/10/2025

City Council Discusses ICE, Hateful Flyers, Transportation, Art Funding

The Greenbelt City Council convened Monday, October 27 to discuss their responses to reported Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, anti-immigrant flyers found in Greenbelt, and Maryland’s Consolidated Transportation Plan and to approve funding for art programs in the city.

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11/08/2025

Frankie Fritz Elected; Rodney Roberts Ends 34 Years on Council

Read more of the election results here:

https://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/news-stories/frankie-fritz-elected-rodney-roberts-ends-34-years-on-council/

11/06/2025

Furloughed Workers Recalled To Clear Buildings at Goddard

The shutdown is supposed to pause all non-essential work by government employees but while NASA usually furloughs 80 to 90 percent of its workers, Greenbelt’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) continues to hum with activity, including executing controversial directives critics say are illegal. Clearing of buildings on the campus and “divesting” of labs and equipment from those buildings is being carried out while most staff, media and the public are unable to access the facilities. Emails shared with the News Review and statements from GSFC federal workers show some are being recalled specifically to clean out buildings and participate in moves, as the center continues vacating buildings on the west side of its campus.

Read more here: https://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/news-stories/furloughed-workers-recalled-to-clear-buildings-at-goddard/

11/05/2025

Greenbelt's 2025 Preliminary Election Results Are In

Read more at https://www.greenbeltmd.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=51

11/04/2025

10/31/2025

Standpipe Issues of Lead, Noise Arise at Council Worksession

At its October 15 worksession, Greenbelt City Council heard a Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) report on renovation of the current standpipe (also referred to as the water tower) at Lastner Lane and Ridge Road. With preliminaries complete and a contractor on board, WSSC now expects to move ahead in November. The tower dates from 1936 and is about 83’ tall and 69’ in diameter and holds approximately two million gallons. It will be stripped of previous coatings inside and out and recoated. Ancillary equipment and storage will be replaced and controls updated.

Read more here: https://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/news-stories/standpipe-issues-of-lead-noise-arise-at-council-worksession/

10/30/2025

Federally Employed Greenbelters Miss Their First Full Paycheck

It’s been four weeks since the federal government shutdown ‒ 22 work days at publication time. For many Greenbelters who are federal workers, that means one fully missed paycheck and one partial one.
It's a shutdown characterized by uncertainty. Read more here: https://www.greenbeltnewsreview.com/news-stories/federally-employed-greenbelters-miss-their-first-full-paycheck/

10/30/2025

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10/29/2025

We asked the ten candidates for city council, "What particular expertise do you bring to council and in what specific ways would you use it to advance your priorities?" Here's what they said:

Published continuously since the New Deal City of Greenbelt was founded in 1937, the News Review is delivered free to most Greenbelt residents. In 1970 we won a landmark First Amendment case in the Supreme Court.