Week in Review: Lowercase Letters, a Cell Phone Tower, and Christmas in April

As usual, there was quite a bit going on in College Park this week. 

College Park resident Robert Boone is working on starting a community garden near his 52nd Avenue home, and is on the prowl for people interested in purchasing a plot. If you've always wanted to tend your own vegetable patch, read the full story . 

The College Park City Council of an ordinance prohibiting the spread of bamboo between neighboring yards. The ordinance would be enforced on a complaint-basis only, meaning a fine would only be issued if a property owner is bothered by their adjoining neighbor's bamboo creeping into their yard. 

The band Lowercase Letters, comprised of two former University of Maryland students, performed a show at D.C.'s Rock and Roll Hotel on Friday. Read up on the band . 

At Thursday's North College Park Citizens Association meeting, of an AT&T cell phone tower that may be built along the east edge of Odessa Road in Sunnyside. The general sentiment toward the tower was summed up by a half-serious  Harley Elliot: “Why don’t you look in your own backyard?” 

On the same night, many residents to shutter No. 1 Liquors and convert the space into a small park. The city plans to attempt to buy the store from the owner, but using eminent domain isn't out of the question, said Councilman Patrick Wojahn (Dist. 1). 

Christmas came to Prince George's County once in December, and again over the weekend as volunteers from the University of Maryland Department of Public Safety helped refurbish one lucky Riverdale woman's home. Check out the story in photos .