Branchville fire station turns 100
By SHARON O’MALLEY College’s Park’s oldest fire station turns 100 this year. Founded in 1924, the Branchville Volunteer Fire Department…
Lectures, workshops come to Lakeland
By LILLIAN GLAROS College Park’s Restorative Justice Commission has joined with a consulting and training organization to host a dozen…
Commission proposes changes to park names to honor Lakeland history
By KATELYNN WINEBRENNER A new report by the College Park Restorative Justice Commission calls for the city council to establish…
New signs mark county Civil Rights Trail
Since the last Black History Month in 2023, several locations along Prince George County’s Civil Rights Trail have received new signage and markers to help residents and visitors better understand what life was like from the 1940s to the 1960s when the county was legally segregated.
College Park’s upcoming opportunities for restorative justice
By Maxine Gross In past articles I have written that the beauty of growing up in Lakeland was seeing black…
Laurel markers added to the county’s civil rights trail
By AIESHA SOLOMON Two sites in Laurel are now part of the Prince George’s County Civil Rights Trail, a public…
St. Philip’s celebrates 175 years in Laurel
By Jessie Newburn St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, the charming stone church with a bright red door on the corner of…
Lakeland’s Legacy: Legacy can be a living thing
By Maxine Gross Stormy skies threatened as we Lakelanders gathered in April to unveil a historic marker for our community….
New Laurel Museum exhibit to tell histories of many neighborhoods
By Angie Latham Kozlowski The Laurel Historical Society’s (LHS) new museum exhibit, “It’s All Laurel: City Limits and Beyond,” which…
Anna Latta Owens
By Mary C. Cook College Park’s first and only female mayor, Anna Latta Owens, was just five years old…