<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10pt;margin-left:0in;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial"><span style="line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Less than a year after Safeway officials told Hyattsville-area shoppers that their deteriorating local store would be "Lifestyled," the <i>Hyattsville Life & Times</i> is reporting that the store will become instead the latest in the chain to be "Bestwayed" -- sold to a chain of Latino </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">discount</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">grocery stores. Click here to learn about how Safeway's corporate strategy of remaking itself as an upscale supermarket will affect local consumers:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10pt;margin-left:0in;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial">There's also plenty of news in the "Bureaucrats Behaving Badly" department this month. Read how the Grinch stole Christmas in Whoville -- er., Hyattsville -- by sealing off the new County skate park just days after it was completed, shooing away dismayed preschoolers in the process. And how the County public works department apparently violated its own regulations by clear-cutting the shade trees along the Queens Chapel Town Center -- trees paid for by the City of Hyattsville and some of which were on the City's right-of-way, allegedly because shopping-center management complained their foliage was blocking views of commercial signs.</p>
<div>These stories and much more in the January edition. Subscribe for free and get notified monthly of each new issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris Currie</div><div>Hyattsville</div><div><br></div>