Week In Review

This past week we saw our climate change from blazing, hot summer to milder (and sometimes even chilly) autumn. It's a great time of year for the warm-and-fuzzies to start brewing inside.

But in Patch world, life is never so simple.

The week began on the softer side, with recap of the Greenbelt Labor Day parade and photos from Great Falls, Va.

But then Hyattsville's City Council got back into swing after their late summer hiatus and came out of the gate swinging with a new city treasurer and decisions on a few hot-button issues.

Resident Hugh Turley told the council at its Sept. 7 meeting that a citywide traffic study conducted by Sabra, Wang & Associates was not pro-citizen.

"I don't see how you can be on the side of the people on this," he said. "I really wish you had thought about the citizens that are here now. Let's get the traffic out of our town and not through our town."

Hyattsville Patch life simmered down with a few tempered articles.

Stuart Eisenberg, of the Hyattsville Community Development Corporation, talked to Patch about growth in the city, and gave us his thoughts about ongoing projects.

Writer Jeff Koslofsky told us that starting last week, Prince George's County Soccer Inc. (PGSI) once again began sponsoring Small-Sided Soccer on Saturday mornings in Hyattsville's Magruder Park.

But by Friday, things began to heat up – at least news-wise – again.

Patch reported that about 7:30 a.m. on Friday a citizen called Hyattsville City Police and said that he had been flagged down by a male who said that people, who may have been armed, had made entry to an auto shop in the 4700 block of Crittenden Street, Sgt. Greg Phillips, of the HPD, said.

Patch was on the scene and talking to city and county police (thanks to Cydney Cappello of Greenbelt Patch for handling re-write!). We broke the back-story with details and a quote from Phillips.

"Our officers secured the area, but could not determine if anyone was still inside of the business," Phillips said. "Our emergency services team, working with the Greenbelt City Emergency Services team, with whom we have a long-standing mutual aid agreement, set up a perimeter and attempted to contact anyone who may have been in the building."

After no one responded, entry was made and the building was searched. Nothing was found and no suspects were located, Phillips said.