From the Editor: This town is your town, this town is my town
BY ROSANNA LANDIS WEAVER — This is my final official editorial for the Hyattsville Life & Times. On June 1,…
From the Editor: Columnists provide a foundation for small-town paper to flourish
BY ROSANNA LANDIS WEAVER — A recent article in the Washington Post described the now-defunct Manassas News and Messenger as…
From the Vice President: Building trust in Hyattsville
BY CHRIS CURRIE — Last fall, a reporter for the Hyattsville Life & Times saw an armored personnel carrier parked…
From the Editor: What drives decisions?
BY SUSIE CURRIE — In recent months, the Hyattsville City Council has spent hours discussing such issues as whether to…
From the Editor: Small-town journalism in 2013
BY ROSANNA LANDIS WEAVER — We essentially lost the Hyattsville Patch last month. This wasn’t major news the way the…
From the Editor: Enticement or entitlement? Whatever you call it, Safeway subsidy makes sense
BY ROSANNA LANDIS WEAVER — Our September 2013 cover story on a 52,000-square-foot “lifestyle Safeway” replacing what is essentially a…
From the Editor: Reading the future
BY SUSIE CURRIE — I’ve had a library card as long as I can remember. My childhood library, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama,…
How did we get here?
BY ROSANNA LANDIS WEAVER — Here are some of the unpleasant realities of Hyattsville’s fiscal situation: There is less money…
From the Editor: What I found when I moved away
BY PAULA MINAERT — After living in Hyattsville for more than 30 years, my husband and I moved to New London,…
From the Editor: Looking back while moving forward
BY SUSIE CURRIE — Between the ceiling rafters and the fresh drywall of Franklins’ new toy room lies a strip…