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The first glint of the sun as totality ends for the solar eclipse of April 8 2024. From Akron, Ohio. Photo by Jeff Jones

The five students who were shot on Friday at Schrom Hills Park during ‘Senior Skip Day’ are apparently out of danger and those remaining in the hospital are now considered ‘stable’.  Some have already been released from hospital.  If you have any information that might assist Greenbelt Police, please call 301-474-7200.  The activity (not sanctioned by the schools) had attracted several hundred students from nearby high schools.  Greenbelt Police were overseeing traffic and general behavior when shots were fired Friday, April 19 around 3 p.m. injuring five teens, one critically.  Officers moved quickly to attend to the injured but the shooter took off with the crowd and has not yet been identified.

Eclipse: Out of town Greenbelters viewed totality and sent us pix.  Also, read about what’s up with city planning and the status of Charlestowne North as it wends its way back to health.

For current status of school bells, see our update in the April 11 issue.  For more on transportation changes for the School Year 2024-25 see our April 4 issue.

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Some Greenbelters Search For Best in Eclipse Totality
April 17, 2024
One of the News Review’s favorite astronomers, Jerry Bonnell, was in the line of totality in Vienna, Illinois.  Bonnell tells us it is pronounced VI-enna, (VI emphasized and rhyming with “Hi”) and speculates that this may be to avoid confusion … Read More
Returning Home: Greenbelters Are Not Your Typical Boomerang Kids
Lesley Kash
April 17, 2024
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Part Two of a Two-Part Story  Marc Siegel, Heather Hart, Eva Garin, Hopi Auerbach, Lesley Kash, Dorothy Dobson and Jonathan Murray all moved away from their Greenbelt childhood homes, though some didn’t go far.  Siegel moved from Maplewood Court to … Read More
From Abused to Evidence to Now Adoptable: Apollo Seeks Home
April 17, 2024
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Apollo is only one year and four months old. He’s spent most of his life at Greenbelt Animal Shelter, where he arrived last July. He had been caged and starved in a Greenbelt apartment and was days away from death … Read More
Planning Department Budget And Ongoing Projects Review
April 17, 2024
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With very little council comment on its FY 2025 budget, the city’s Department of Planning and Community Development got the opportunity to strut its stuff and showcase its activities.   The city council worksession of April 3, as well as … Read More
Seven of Greenbelt’s Children Share Memories of Homes
April 11, 2024
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Part One of a Two-Part Story Secret passages, ladders and Lego house designs are among the memories of seven Greenbelters who live in their childhood homes. Hopi Auerbach and Heather Hart on Ridge Road, Dorothy Dobson and Eva Garin on … Read More
Most Greenbelters Stayed Home To View Near-Total Solar Eclipse
April 11, 2024
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Light clouds on Monday, April 8, mostly dissipated in time for eclipse watchers throughout Greenbelt to clearly view the first eclipse in the area since 2017.  This partial solar eclipse – with the moon blocking 89 percent of the sun, … Read More

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A fallen tree in Greenbelt Lake stands starkly after the January 31 snowfall. Photo by Jeff Jones
Fallen tree, Greenbelt Lake by Jeffrey Jones