Town Meeting, as it currently exists in Belmont, is too large and too unwieldy to serve the town as it should.
Author: Paul Roberts
Happy Holidays! Now about Next Year…
A First Night celebration in Belmont would bring residents together, help out our downtown shops, and attract more businesses to town.
Firenze planning to run again in 2009
Selectman Angelo Firenze will run again for a second full term in 2009, The Belmont Citizen Herald is reporting.
The high costs of doing nothing
The town’s older schools are going to require capital investments that are 10x to 20x greater than the one new school (Chenery) in the next few years…and these are just the repairs that we know about.
Grim projections on school funding in ’10
Forced to reduce School Dept. spending by $2.8m in the next school year, Belmont’s public school system would be forced to make drastic cuts to staffing, materials and programming in 2010, according to a presentation by current Superintendent Dr. Pat Aubin and finance director Gerry Missal.
School Committee weighs budget, other issues
After a long hiatus that included the Thanksgiving holiday and a trip to Moscow, I’m back and sitting in on Tuesday evening’s omnibus School Committee meeting, at which a number of issues are being tackled, including plans for a new…
Rash of break-ins hits Belmont, Arlington
A rash of break-ins has broken out across Belmont and Arlington in recent weeks in what Belmont PD investigators think is an organized and professional operation carried out by one or two groups of criminals.
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Reader Poll: A new role for the Benton Branch Library?
As many readers may already know, the Library Board of Trustees recently voted to close the Benton Branch library after more than a century of operation. According to this article in the Belmont Citizen Herald, the recent decision to close…
Parsing the election results in Belmont
Yes we can! Tuesday, November 4, 2008, was a wonderful and historic day in the life of our nation, and Belmont’s voters turned out in force yesterday to be a part of it. So how did we come down on…