You just may want to miss viewing “The Voice” or “Dancing with the Stars” to come over to the Beech Street Center tonight, Monday, April 28, for a briefing of the Warrant articles set to be debated in one week’s time at the annual Town Meeting. 

The briefing – which is open to the public and is a great primer for Town Meeting reps – will start at 7 p.m. at the Center, located at 266 Beech St., 

This is an opportunity to ask questions about the 27 warrant articles with town officials and department heads present to provide information on items such as the general and school budgets, Community Preservation grants (including $2 million for the new Underwood Pool), dog kennels, the placement of medical marijuana dispensaries and repealing the snow removal bylaw. 

Michael Libenson, chair of the Warrant Committee – the fiscal watchdog group for the Town Meeting – 
will preside. 

This now annual event is cosponsored by the Warrant Committee and the Belmont League of Women Voters. 

• The classic “Guys and Dolls”, the musical tribute to Damon Runyon’s world of gangsters, small-time gamblers and showgirls of 1930s New York City, will be presented by the students of Chenery Middle School on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 1,2 and 3 at 7 p.m. in the Chenery’s auditorium. Tickets are available online and at Moozy’s at the corner of Trapelo Road and Belmont Street and Champions Sporting Goods in Belmont Center. Preconcert tickets are $10 adults and $8 for students. Tickets will also be available at the door with adults paying $12 and students $8. Belmont Savings Bank is this production’s main sponsor.

• Some of the best acting of the years will happen this week as the Belmont High School Performing Arts Company will stage its annual One Act Plays. Each performance will be directed by seniors who will lead underclassmen through their acting paces. The performances get underway Thursday, May 1 at 7 p.m. and Friday, May 2 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the school’s Little Theater. Tickets are $5 for students, $10 for adults. Tickets are on sale at Champions Sporting Goods in Belmont Center and at the door but these performances traditionally sell out so get them early.

• The Belmont Public Works Department will be holding its Public Works Day this Saturday, May 3 at the DPW Yard at 37 C St. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you have a kid who loves big trucks and construction equipment, this is your day to explore! New this year will be a recycling event in which the public can drop off hard to recycle items such as rigid plastics, textiles, paper shredding and styrofoam at the Woodland Street entrance. For more information, call 617-993-2689.

• The Fenway Brass Quintet will be performing American music as part of the Friends of Belmont Public Library’s Music on Saturday Concert Series on Saturday, May 3 at 3 p.m. in the Assembly Room of the Belmont Public Library. The concert, the final one of the series, will include music from early colonial America to the American Civil War.

• Quarterly real estate and personal property tax bills are due to the Treasurer’s Office at Town Hall by 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 1. You can make the payment online by going to the town’s bill payment web page. If you need assistance, call 617-993-2770.

• One Book One Belmont presents John Stauffer, Professor of English, American Studies and African American Studies at Harvard University, who will talk about Phillis Wheatley, a Boston slave born in Gambia, became one of the foremost poets in early America from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Belmont Public Library’s Assembly Room. The talk is co-sponsored by Belmont Against Racism, the Belmont Historical Society and the Human Rights Commission.

• There is a meeting of Precinct 3 Town Meeting members from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Fleet Room (across from the Children’s Room) at the Belmont Public Library.