It’s the morning of March 22, 1820. Commodore Stephen Decatur Jr., top-ranking U.S. naval officer and acclaimed hero from the War of 1812, is riding out from his home in Lafayette Square, Washington,...
Residents of College Park’s Lakeland neighborhood are planning to add 10 murals to sidewalks, storm drains, fences, retaining walls and paths throughout the community.
The project is a continuation...
By JESSIE NEWBURN
The iconic Rosie the Riveter image is a well-known one: A dark-eyed woman wearing a red-and-white polka dot head scarf rolls up her sleeve, ready for work, the words “We Can Do It!”...
By DW Rowlands
College Park incorporated in 1945, and it was the last of the string of jurisdictions along Route 1 — and one of the last ones in the county — to do so. Unlike the older communities...
By Paul Ruffins
Between Oct. 1 and Nov. 15, the City of Hyattsville invited residents to submit suggestions for renaming the city’s major park. The Hyattsville Life & Times (HL&T) has analyzed...
By Renee Domogauer
Back in the 1980s, my house reverberated with, “Want to go down to Howie’s, Dad?”
The call usually led to a father-son walk downtown for food and a few video or pinball...
By Kelsey Mannix
As people filed in to Northwestern High School’s auditorium on Feb. 13 for the Jim Henson Center for Visual and Performing Arts Academy’s “Of African Descent” production,...
(This is the second of a three-part series on Mike Toomey, a Hyattsville resident who has joined Steve Miller’s baseball coaching staff at DeMatha. Part one highlighted Toomey’s start in professional...
By EMILY STRAB — Hyattsville made history when its new police chief was sworn in.
On the afternoon of Dec. 13, Amal Awad was sworn in as Hyattsville’s Chief of Police, becoming only the eighth police...
By TAYLOR MYERS — We Marylanders are unusually proud of our state flag — and for good reason. Unquestionably unique and recognizable, the Maryland flag combines the coats of arms of the Calvert and...
By ANDRA DAMRON — Celebrating Hyattsville's 132nd anniversary of incorporation is the perfect opportunity to honor its rich history. But who would suspect that a cracked and crumbling, vacant parking...
By MARK GOODSON — Aaron Marcavitch is a man on a mission to educate residents about the city’s auto-centric past.
When Marcavitch was earning his history degree from Roger Williams University,...
