<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">It's <i>la dolce vita </i>in nearby Hyattsville these days. As in an Italian village, the arts, culture and commerce thrive -- while the government seems about to collapse completely. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div class="gmail_quote">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><br></div><div>In its new October issue, the <i>Hyattsville Life & Times</i> chronicles the departure -- and buyout -- of the only recently hired city administrator, creating the sixth key vacancy in the city administration and leaving a bitterly divided City Council in his wake.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Yet the cascade of civic openings, happenings and redevelopment continues, as described in this month's edition:</div><div><br></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div style="font-family: georgia; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span>The forthcoming Shortcake Bakery's owner has a political name you might recognize;</font></div><div style="font-family: georgia; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: georgia; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; "> A view</span> inside Firehouse Lofts, architect Garth Rockcastle's latest -- and how you can be among the first to see the adaptive reuse project during a "construction preview" ;</font></div>
<div style="font-family: georgia; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: georgia; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span>Pictures from Hyattsville's 125th anniversary party, held at the dramatic, partially finished Arcade building;</font></div>
<div style="font-family: georgia; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: georgia; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; "> The City of Hyattsville takes its first steps to legitimize several underground Bed and Breakfasts;</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: georgia; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: georgia; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">•<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span>A Silver Spring company wins City approval for a redevelopment project near the West Hyattsville Metro Station; and</font></div>
<div style="font-family: georgia; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">•<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span>A local park gets a makeover.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div style="font-family: georgia; ">
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Plus, the scoop on Halloween fun (beginning at a farmers' market on October 18); everything you need to know about the Hyattsville Volunteer Fire Department's upcoming 5-mile run and open house; why you're seeing fewer bats in the evening sky than you used to; and a poignant story about how a trip to a Vietnam orphanage turned one local woman in to a "mom" of dozens.</font></div>
<div><br></div></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div>See it all online in the<i> Life & Times' </i>biggest, liveliest, most colorful issue ever:</div>
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