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Also on today's calendar: Bryce's Treehouse Hosts Inaugural International Overdose Awareness Day Event in Bowie – Aug. 30 and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. City Council Discusses Greenbelt Cinema's Fiscal Needs, Outlook (greenbeltnewsreview.com) — Greenbelt City Council is weighing a renewed request for an extra $25,000 to keep Greenbelt Cinema's popular special programs going amid rising costs and lower box office revenue. Residents and councilmembers praised the nonprofit theater's regional draw and community role, but no vote is scheduled yet, leaving its long‑term future and funding still uncertain.
2. When a stepparent adoption meets resistance from a birth parent (thedailyrecord.com) — A Greenbelt-based family law attorney helps explain what happens when a stepparent adoption faces pushback from a birth parent in Maryland courts. The article walks through consent rules, show cause orders, best-interest standards, and how post-adoption contact agreements can preserve relationships while still allowing a stepparent to adopt.
3. Former Senior NIAID Official Pleads Guilty to Charges Connected to Concealing Federal Records During COVID-19 Pandemic (healthcarejournalno.com) — A former senior NIAID advisor pleaded guilty in federal court in Greenbelt to conspiring to evade federal records laws and FOIA during the COVID‑19 pandemic. Prosecutors say he used personal email to hide grant‑related communications and accepted gifts tied to official acts, and he now faces up to five years in prison at sentencing.
4. NASA Ames' Contributions to Roman's Mission (nasa.gov) — Greenbelt's NASA Goddard Space Flight Center plays a supporting role in new software that will sharpen images from the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Working with NASA Ames and Caltech, the Greenbelt team is helping remove stray and zodiacal light so astronomers can better study faint galaxies and hunt exoplanets, including in complex multi-star systems.
5. Pandora Mission Begins A Study Of Exoplanets And Their Host Stars (astrobiology.com) — Greenbelt gets a spotlight as NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center there leads the new Pandora mission, now studying the atmospheres of at least 20 distant exoplanets. The small satellite will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by untangling how starlight affects atmospheric measurements, using long, detailed observations to better detect water, clouds, and hazes on faraway worlds.
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