Editor's Notebook
College Park, One Year Later
College Park Patch editor bids the city goodbye, and reflects on the happenings over the past year.
In June 2010, I sat in the council chambers of City Hall, covering my first College Park council meeting. The members debated the need for a pedestrian-activated traffic light at the crossing on Paint Branch Parkway. Still a journalism graduate student at the time, I didn't realize this would be the first of many Tuesday nights I’d spend in those chambers—One year later, I would take up the reins as the editor of the College Park Patch. The traffic light is now installed, but other city news arose between June 2011-12: $8.8 million was allotted for the realignment of U.S. Route 1, businesses came and left, and several athletic programs face elimination at the University of Maryland. And there are new faces now sitting behind the council …
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Sonia Dasgupta
11:29 pm on Monday, June 11, 2012
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