Riverdale Park on the Internet

By Leslie Plant

Here are a few sites and e-mail lists of local interest.

Town of Riverdale Park

http://www.ci.riverdale-park.md.us

Town-Sponsored E-mail Lists

Free, user-friendly e-mail lists bring timely information about Riverdale Park to your inbox.

Sign up at www.tinyurl.com/dn6tj or
http://riverdale-park.org/mailman/listinfo

Town-Announce: events, meetings, agendas

ComTalk: discussions on improving communications

TownTalk: informal, wide-ranging discussions

 

Farmers' Market List

Get anouncements concerning the Market http://clarimetry.com/mailman/listinfo/rpfarmersmarket_clarimetry.com

Weblogs

Blogs are personal observations about anything.

Jack Jones (Ward 1) http://TheRiverdaleObserver.blogspot.com

James Landry (Ward 1) http://MusicFromTheFilm.blogspot.com

Andrew Farrington (Ward 1) http://castironskillet.blogspot.com

Maureen Farrington (Ward 1) http://riverdaleparkette.blogspot.com

David Hiles (Ward 2); lots of local links (see also Hiles Web site, listed separately) http://RiverdalePark.blogspot.com

Alan Thompson (Ward 2) http://riverdale-park-politics.blogspot.com

Audrey Bragg (Ward 2) http://RiverdaleParkReader.blogspot.com

Living in Riverdale Park

Unofficial site; lots of good photos www.lissa.net/riverdale

Riverdale Volunteer Fire Department www.RiverdaleVFD.com/home.html

Town services (town site) www.ci.riverdale-park.md.us/CityServices/default.html

Riverdale Park Business Association www.RiverdaleParkBiz.com

History of historic Sears catalog homes www.lissa.net/riverdale/Riverdale%20Sears%20Homes.html

Riversdale Historical Society www.riversdale.org

Riversdale Mansion information, including rental info www.pgparks.com/places/ElegantHistoric/riversdale_intro.html

Local artist Gerald King's Riverdale Park paintings www.GeraldKing.com/Riverdale.htm

David Hiles, former Ward 2 council member, gives lots of information and posts recent issues of the Town Crier http://homepage.mac.com/hilesd/RiverdalePark/Personal7.html

The Riverdale Park M-U-T-C Zone Project are the guidelines for our town center http://www.mncppc.org/cpd/riverdalepark.htm

Local, County, State Government

Maryland Archives, Riverdale Park page www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/37mun/riverdale/html/r.html

Riverdale Park history http://www.mdmunicipal.org/cities/index.cfm?townname=RiverdalePark&page=home

Find your elected state officials www.MDelect.net/ElectedOfficials

Links on the official town site www.ci.riverdale-park.md.us/RelatedLinks/default.html

Local Interest

Gazette online www.gazette.net/princegeorgescty

County, local, area news and weather www.topix.net/city/riverdale-park-md

Website from our Hyattsville neighbors concerning environmental protection, strengthening the community and building a healthy local economy www.groups.yahoo.com/group/HOPE_in_Hyattsville

Information and resources for organizing events and activities for county families www.groups.yahoo.com/group/pgparents

Riverdale Park Data

Data from various sources www.city-data.com/city/Riverdale-Park-Maryland.html

U.S. Census data (year 2000) for Riverdale Park http://censtats.census.gov/data/MD/1602466635.pdf (this is a PDF file with Riverdale Park census data).

[If approved, a new Town Crier site will list the links shown here and offer recent issues in portable document format, or PDF. Some issues are available online now: http://homepage.mac.com/hilesd/RiverdalePark/Personal7.html -Editor.]

 

If you have a link to add to this list, send it to Leslie Plant: soapmkr@erols.com.

Disclaimer: All links are provided for the convenience of our residents. Any opinions expressed on any site are those of the site's owners and not necessarily those of the Town Crier or the Town of Riverdale Park.