Vehicle slams into Laurel Tavern Donuts
BY BOB REILLY On Nov. 30, at approximately 8 a.m., a Honda traveling southbound on Route 1 in Laurel crashed…
DeMatha falls in WCAC football championship, 7-0
BY CHRIS MCMANES For the DeMatha football team, the only thing worse than the weather was the result. For the…
Lockdown at Hyattsville Middle School Rattles Students, Parents
BY Heather Marléne Zadig A social media threat made against a Hyattsville Middle School (HMS) student led to a brief…
Ofrenda at UMD offers space for collective grieving
BY LUKAS ROWE Students and community members can use the University of Maryland’s community ofrenda at the Department of Anthropology…
Sydnor elected mayor; council adds 3 new members
By Melanie Dzwonchyk and Joe Murchison City councilmember Keith Sydnor was elected Laurel’s mayor on Nov. 7, coming out on…
Science of the City: To save lives, get serious about addressing speeding
BY: PAUL RUFFINS This fourth, and last, article in our series about traffic fatalities in Prince George’s County examines why…
Local Hyattsville distillery expands to Takoma Park
BY EMELY MIRANDA-AGUILAR Sangfroid Distilling’s owners Jeff Harner and Nate Groenendyk are expanding beyond Hyattsville. The owners bought a vacant…
Moe looks back at 21 years as mayor
By MELANIE DZWONCHYK After steering the city of Laurel over a landscape of cultural and societal change during the last…
College Park elections use new verification technology
BY ROBERT STEWART For College Park residents who voted in-person during the 2023 election, the process should have seemed relatively…
The Berwyn Ballet School dances up from the basement
By Alexandra Alpert Back in 2020, when the world was grappling with challenges posed by the pandemic, Kimberly Reim was…
