I attended a recent Greenbelt County Council meeting, where they discussed annexing parts of BARC (Beltsville Agriculture Research Center). I was the only representative (to my knowledge, all the speakers before and after me were from Greenbelt) from Beltsville who spoke. I expressed surprise and frustration that our community wasn’t included more in this conversation as Beltsville is literally the first word in BARC (a name-to be clear-has changed over the years from when it