Photo: Belmont Town Moderator Mike Widmer Those who are successful at the card table will agree a basic rule to stay in the game is not to “overplay your hand,” which the Cambridge Dictionary describes as “spoiling your chances of success by saying or doing too much.” Oh, if only those Belmont Town Meeting Members […]
Photo: The view from the moderator’s stand. If the second time is “lucky” and a third “the charm,” what’s the idiom for a fourth vote on the same article at Town Meeting? Whatever word you want to use, the marathon debate around a seeming inconsequential request to increase the term of the Town Moderator from […]
Photo: It’s town meeting Welcome to possibly (hopefully) the final night of Segment A of the 2019 Belmont Town Meeting being held in the Belmont High School auditorium, Monday night, May 6. Two big articles await the 290 plus members of Belmont’s legislative body, the first is voting on an extra $3.76 million for the […]
Photo: Empress Mask, Belmont High School, Class of 1981. Some high schools can boast of their alums who have become pro athletes, pop singers or movie stars while others point to those who run high tech start ups or prize winning eateries. At Belmont High, the most noted graduate is part of royalty. Not the […]