As we all know, the town has a long list of capital projects that need attention. In the immediate future, there’s an override vote for road reconstruction in June. At B2, our attention is focused on the Wellington School, which…
Category: politics
Selectmen’s new e-mail policy doesn’t add up
First off, my sincere apologies for the delay in writing this week — work has taken me offline and out of town for much of the last week. The good news is that there is some cool new content in…
In the Mix: Will Brownsberger (Part 2)
This continues my post from last week on my recent interview with Will Brownsberger, longtime Belmont Selectman and now our State Rep. You can read the first part of the interview here. BloggingBelmont (B2): Bring us up to date on…
In the Mix: Will Brownsberger
This is the latest installment in a series of interviews BloggingBelmont is doing with some of the leading thinkers and decision makers in the Belmont Community — those folks who help shape the town that we live in. For this…
The good news and…the good news!
A hearty congratulations to the 100+ town residents who turned out to support the School Committee’s plan to introduce full day kindergarten on Tuesday. As reported in the Citizen Herald, the School Committee voted 5-1 in favor of the full…
Full Day K goes up for a vote tonight
Supporters of full day kindergarten need to turn out tonight to the Chenery Middle School at 7:30 for an important School Committee meeting. At issue will be the School Dept.’s plan to introduce all day kindergarten to the town’s elementary…
Band of Mothers
With Belmont headed towards a likely override vote (or a few of them) in the coming days, I was interested to read this fine article in the Boston Globe on the phenomenon of “override moms” — concerned, suburban parents (generally…
Massive turnout puts override on the agenda
An impressive turnout by parents of Belmont Public School students and other concerned citizens put the issue of an operational override at the top of the town’s agenda Saturday, and may have set the stage for a vote on an…
Reading the Warrant Committee’s Tea Leaves
I’m just back from the Warrant Committee meeting at the Chenery where both Town Administrator Tom Younger and Dr. Gerry Missal, the School Department’s Director of Finance and Administration, presented their best estimates of what kinds of cuts would be…
More on last night’s School Committee meeting
At the risk of muddying the water about what has and hasn’t happened yet re: the School Budget, School Committee member Ann Rittenburg has provided a detailed comment to my post from early this AM. Ann provides some more context…