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College Park Considers How to Address Damage to Historically Black Neighborhood
The city of College Park is looking to rectify the damage done to the historically Black community of Lakeland in the 1970s. Continue reading
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Wills Decorating is revamping a piece of Hyattsville history. The interior design store is redoing the iconic TESST sign on its front exterior with the letters changed to read “WILLS.” Continue reading
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A Cottage City woman who lived just off Route 1, neighboring Brentwood and Mount Rainier, invented the game that eventually was marketed as Monopoly, but her contribution was covered up for decades. Continue reading
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A new Hyattsville mural that is one of the Route 1 corridor’s first honoring the Black Lives Matter movement has been completed. Continue reading
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A house on the border of Cottage City and Mount Rainier that inspired “The Exorcist” has new owners, and they were not aware of its storied past before purchasing the home. Continue reading
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Noted D.C. Playwright to Highlight Freedom Fights in Prince George’s County
Award-winning D.C. playwright Psalmayene 24 will adapt the book, “A Question of Freedom,” about the fight for freedom in Prince George’s County, into a play that will debut at Joe’s Movement Emporium in Mount Rainier next year. Continue reading
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Five University Park residents who were among those who died on the Sept. 11 attacks are remembered today at a small memorial at the end of Wells Parkway. Continue reading
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