Photo: Yard sales in Belmont.
Yard sales in the “Town of Homes.”
• 40 Hamilton Rd., Saturday, July 11, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 41 Pequossette Rd., Saturday, July 11, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• 29 Wilson Ave., Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 109 Winter St., Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Photo: Farmer Tim’s Vegetables.
A pair of farm stands – one well established and another starting this year – will be providing Belmont residents with fresh produce for the coming growing season.
Belmont Acres Farm – previously Sergi’s Farm from 1947 to 2011 – is open on Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The stand is at 34 Glenn Rd. off Blanchard Road; enter through the main gate on Glenn Road and exit via Taylor Road. Shoppers are asked to leave pets at home as a family dog attacked the farm animals last year. The stand is also open on Tuesdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Farmer Tim’s Vegetables is a new farm stand this growing season, open on Sundays from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Boston Musicians’ Association’s parking lot at 130 Concord Ave., across from the entry to Belmont High School. Tim Carroll, a long-time Belmont resident who purchased a farm in Dudley, will sell fresh farm vegetables in his hometown from the stand.
Photo: Early in the season.
The Belmont Farmers Market is open Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The market is located in the Belmont Center Municipal Parking Lot at the intersection of Cross Street and Channing Road
At the market today, Thursday, July 9:
Weekly vendors: C & C Lobster & Fish, Gaouette Farm, Mamadou’s Artisan Bakery, Dick’s Market Garden, Fior d’Italia, Stillman Quality Meats, Boston Smoked Fish Co., Goodies Homemade, Sfolia Baking Company, Hutchins Farm, Kimball Fruit Farm, Foxboro Cheese Co., Flats Mentor Farm, Nicewicz Family Farm, Westport Rivers Winery
Guest vendors: Carr’s Ciderhouse, Seta’s Mediterranean Food, Spindler Confections, Soluna Garden Farm.
Food Truck: Jamaica Mi Hungry.
Performances in the Events Tent
• 4 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.: Storytime, sponsored by the library
• 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.: Sara Fard, music educator and local performer
• 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.: Arlington Philharmonic Chamber Players
Tastings in the Events Tent: Savinos Grill, in Cushing Square, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Belmont Food Pantry: The Farmers Market collects non-perishables to help those who use the Belmont Food Pantry. Please bring something to the manager’s tent.
Traffic: Belmont Center construction will affect traffic, but the Market is open.
Photo:
Actors all! Your stage is ready, so come play the part!
The Belmont Dramatic Club – second oldest continuously operating and performing community theatre group in the United States – is holding auditions for its fall 2015 production of Tom Stoppard’s “Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoots Macbeth” (includes the “15-minute Hamlet” plus two-minute encore) on Monday and Tuesday, July 27 and 28, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., in the Belmont Town Hall auditorium, 455 Concord Ave. please enter through door that opens onto parking lot).
Callbacks if necessary will be on Thursday, July 30, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Belmont Town Hall.
Rehearsals will be Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., beginning in early September.
Performance dates are:
Go to the BDC website: http://www.belmontdramaticclub.org for character descriptions and other play information. For questions, email the club at cheannwelch@gmail.com
On the government side of “This Week”:
• Pre-School Summer Story Time at the Benton Library, Belmont’s independent and volunteer run library, at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 7. Stories and crafts for children age 3 to 5. Parents or caregivers must attend. Siblings may attend with adults. Registration is not required. The Benton Library is located at the intersection of Oakley and Old Middlesex.
• State Rep. Dave Rogers will be holding office hours at the Beech Street Center, 266 Beech St., on Tuesday, July 7, at 9:30 a.m.
• The Belmont Public Library is screening Movies for Children on Tuesday, July 7, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the library’s Assembly Room.
• A wonderful summer event as The Magic Show with Mike Bent – who has entertained at the White House’s Easter Egg Roll – arrives on Wednesday, July 8, at 2 p.m. in the Belmont Public Library’s Assembly Room. The show by the Belmont resident is for kindergarteners and older kids.
• Belmont native Cheryl Arena, the winner of the 2013 Blues Audience Newsletter Reader’s Poll for “Most Outstanding Harmonica Player,” will join “The Love Dogs” as this week’s featured artists at the Payson Park Music beginning at 6:45 p.m., Wednesday, July 8, at Payson Park Playground at Payson Road and Elm Street.
• Sustainable Belmont holds its monthly meeting on Wednesday, July 8, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Flett Room of the Belmont Public Library.
• It will be Superhero Storytime for pre-Kindergarteners at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, July 9, in the Assembly Room of the Belmont Public Library.
• Belmont Farmers Market takes place in the Belmont Center municipal parking lot on Thursday, July 9, from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
• The Senior Book Discussion Group will meet on Friday, July 10 at 11 a.m. at the Beech Street Center where it will two short stories: “Indian Camp” and “Big Two-Hearted River (Part 1 and Part 2)” from In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway.
Photo: Gregory Arabian raising the flag in front of his house on Homer Road.
If you have never heard of Israel Bissell, then you should come by and ask Gregory Arabian.
The Homer Road resident held a July 4th flag raising on Friday, July 3 at this house with a contingency of Belmont Fire – including Chief David Frizzell who came with Engine 1 – and Belmont Police present to honor a great, but now relatively unknown American Patriot.
Bissell, it turns out, was a 23-year-old post rider ordered by John Hancock in April 1775 to spread the word of the Battle of Lexington and Concord down the east coast from Watertown to Harford, New York and Philadelphia.
“That act help unite the United States of America,” said the attorney whose practice is located in Watertown.
The retired US Air Force officer and Commander of the Belmont AMVETS Post 2008 said that “many things are forgotten. July 4th is forgotten. July 4th is remembered only for barbecues, days off.”
“But the reason why July 4th is so important is that we are independent and free and we should enjoy this nation,” he said.
And to the sounds of the “National Anthem,” Arabian raised the flag – which flew over the Capitol Building in Washington DC – to honor those freedoms.
Photo: Yard sales in Belmont.
Yard sales in the “Town of Homes.”
• 31-33 Cushing Ave., Saturday and Sunday, July 4 and 5, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 68 Oakley Rd., Saturday and Sunday, July 4 and 5, from 9 a.m. to noon.
Photo: The view of Boston’s fireworks from Robbins Farm in Arlington. (arlingtonpictures.com)
• Pre-School Story Time at the Benton Library, Belmont’s independent and volunteer run library, on Friday, July 3 at 10:30 a.m. Stories and crafts for children age 3 to 5. Parents or caregivers must attend. Siblings may attend with adults. Registration is not required. The Benton Library is located at the intersection of Oakley and Old Middlesex.
• The Powers Music School is bringing little pigs to Belmont with a performance of “Three Piggie Opera” at noon, Friday, July 3, at the school located at 404 Concord Ave. The performers are Powers’ Pow-Wow Prep students, ages five to nine, who attended a two week total immersion in a musical environment.
Alas, Belmont does not hold a 4th of July celebration, but nearly every other neighboring town and city does. Here are just a few events and fireworks in adjacent communities and in Boston.
Friday, July 3
• Boston/Fenway Park: The Red Sox will hold a postgame Independence Day celebration after the Red Sox-Astros game. The celebration will include a pyrotechnics show, which will be set to special 4th of July music. The show will take place approximately 15 minutes after the conclusion of the game and is expected to last about six minutes.
• Lexington: The annual Fourth of July Carnival takes place at Hastings Park through July 4 from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Youth Games take place on July 4th at 10 a.m.
Saturday, July 4
• Boston: 10 p.m. Over the Charles River adjacent to the Esplanade. (Don’t want to trek to Boston for the show? Try scouting out a space at Robbins Farm in Arlington.)
• Newton: 9 p.m. Albermarle/Halloran Field, located on Watertown Street, Route 16.
• Waltham: 9:15 p.m. Leary Field, 19 Athletic Field Rd.
Photo: Hoopla, a software reader that allows library patrons to instantly borrow free digital movies, music, and more, 24/7 with your library card.
On the government side of “This Week”:
• Two days of roadway paving gets underway on Monday, June 29, along the Belmont Street/Trapelo Road Corridor from Cushing Square to School Street. Paving runs from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Prepare for detours and delays.
• An evening session of Belmont Public Library’s eCamp takes place on Monday, June 29, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Young Adult Room. Reference Librarian Joanna Breen and Technology Librarian Ellen Girouard will teach how to access the library from wherever you find yourself this summer, talk about Zinio and hoopla, and demonstrate other ways the library connects patrons to online media, in this free-flowing demonstration plus Q&A session. Enjoy snacks, practice with your device or a library laptop, and get connected to magazines, movies, music, and more.
• The Belmont Public Library will have a Drop-in Crafts Program for kids in kindergarten and older on Wednesday, July 1, from 2 p.m. in the Assembly Room.
• The Reminisants, playing the music of the 50s to the 90s, headline this week’s Payson Park Music Festival concert taking place at 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday, July 1.
• Come over and color the sidewalk at the Belmont Public Library as the library hosts “Chalk the Walk” on Thursday, July 2, from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
• The Belmont Farmers Market rings the market bell each Thursday in the Belmont Center commuter parking lot on Claflin Street. The market is open from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Photo: Yard sales in Belmont.
Yard sales in the “Town of Homes.”
• 19 Ash St., Saturday, June 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 69 Carleton Rd., Saturday, June 27, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• 58 Cedar Rd., Saturday, June 27, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
• 333 Common St., Saturday, June 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• 100-102 Fairview Ave., Saturday, June 27, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• 50 Flett Rd., Saturday, June 27, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• 52 Harvard Rd., Saturday, June 27, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• 69 Oak Ave., Saturday, June 27, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• 72 Oxford Ave., Saturday, June 27, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 80 Palfrey Rd., Saturday, June 27, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 180 School St., Saturday, June 27, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• 38-40 Unity Ave., Saturday and Sunday, June 27 and 28, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Belmont Corner Neighborhood Association.)
• 72 Waverley St., Saturday, June 27, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.