For School Committee: Lougee and Griffiths Are The Clear Choice
There’s no more important institution in Belmont than our public schools. There’s no more important elected body than the School Committee, which is the community’s voice to the School Administration....
View ArticleTown Meeting Live Blog – Budget Hoedown- May 14
We’re back at the annual Town Meeting to discuss a myriad of budget issues. Pour yourself a drink of something. First up this evening was an update from the Library Board of Trustees on inquiries into...
View ArticleTown Meeting Live Blog – Extended Dance Mix – May 16
It’s a love-in at Town Meeting where everyone is tickled about our healthy town budget. Catch your breath, ’cause 2014′s gonna be HAIRY. We’ve heard updates from State Sen. Will Brownsberger on the...
View ArticleTown Meeting Live Blog Part III: This Time It’s For Keeps!
We’re back at the _third_ installment of Belmont’s annual Town Meeting. This time we’re at the lovely Chenery Middle School auditorium, so there will be no pictures of dilapidated infrastructure....
View ArticleClub Soccer Pulls at Players’ Ties to the Hometown Team – NYTimes.com
There was this interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times that, I think, will hit home for lots of parents in Belmont. The article is ostensibly about high school age soccer players in the...
View ArticleEndorsement: Dave Rogers Will Fight For Belmont
As a Belmont resident for seven years, a Town Meeting member and a mini-van driving father of three children in the Belmont public schools, I believe that we need a strong advocate in the State House...
View ArticleRomney Faces Long Odds To Win His Home Town
A bit of last minute political analysis here to ease us into election day. Let me echo the words of many readers of the Belmont Citizen Herald and Belmont Patch and state the obvious: Willard Mitt...
View ArticleWake-Up Call for BHS
Belmont High has been on the receiving end of plenty of accolades in recent years. U.S. News and World Report ranked us #111 in the nation and fourth in the state based on math and reading scores....
View ArticleState Republicans Help Kang In Late Push For School Committee
It’s another sleepy election cycle here in Belmont, with but one contested race (School Committee) for town wide office and few competitive precincts for town meeting (actually…are there any?). But...
View ArticleOur Next Library Won’t Be A Library (And I Feel Fine)
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from an op-ed that I wrote. It ran in the June 28th edition of the BCH. – Paul The latest twist of our long and winding journey to getting a new town library will...
View ArticleTonight: Tell The Selectmen You Support The Community Path
Belmont bikers and walkers unite! After months (years? decades?) of hemming and hawing, Belmont’s Selectmen are moving toward a final decision on the question of whether to extend the existing bike...
View ArticleVoter Alert: Local Candidates Face Off Tonight at 7PM – Be There!
Just a quick shout-out to the local politics nerds among my Blogging Belmont readers: tonight is the Belmont Candidates’ Night. Hosted by the League of Women Voters, it’s your best (and last) chance to...
View ArticleOpinion: Schools To Pool – Colton Is The Choice For Selectman
Belmont will go to the polls on Tuesday to vote for a variety of offices, including Town Meeting in each precinct, School Committee, Board of Library Trustees. But its the race at the top of the...
View ArticleMemo To Town Meeting Members On Yard Sale Bylaw
Editor’s Note: Steve Ganak, a Precinct 8 resident, asked me to post the following memo ahead of next month’s Town Meeting. Steve is looking to change the town’s bylaws regarding yard sales. I’ve...
View ArticleMihelich Joins Belmont Media Center As Administrative Manager
Jeff Hansell, the Executive Director of Belmont Media Center wrote to inform me that Patty Mihelich is coming on board there as the BMC’s first ever Administrative Manager. Those of us who value all...
View ArticleHelp Needed For Families Displaced By Marlboro Street Fire
Editor’s Note: I’m reposting this press release that went out from the Belmont Corner Neighborhood Association (BCNA) earlier today. The group has set up a fund to aid the victims of Wednesday...
View ArticleBudgetFest: Belmont Town Meeting Live Blog – June 2nd
I’m here at Belmont’s annual Town Meeting. This is actually the fourth (fifth?) session this year – but it’s the big one. In the next couple nights we’re voting on the town’s $~95m budget, funding both...
View ArticleTonight: Show Your Support For The Belmont Community Path!
This is just a note to all the folks out there who support the Belmont Community Path that there’s a very important meeting tonight (Monday, June 9) at 7:00 PM in the Board of Selectmen’s Room in...
View ArticleAn Opportunity To Meet The New School Superintendent
Summer’s fast drawing to a close and thoughts are turning to the new school year. With that in mind, parents with kids in the public school should definitely take advantage of an opportunity to meet...
View ArticleSolar Supporters: Hearing On New Solar Metering Rules In Belmont Tonight
This is a note to all my readers that there’s an important meeting at the Town Hall auditorium this evening at 7:00 PM concerning Belmont Light’s policies for supporting residents who wish to switch to...
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