Brownsberger To Be Challenged For Senate Seat By Boston Resident With Belmont Tiess

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For the first time since winning a special election in 2011, State Sen. Will Brownsberger will have a significant Democratic challenger for his 2nd Suffolk & Middlesex Senate District seat in the upcoming state party primary election in September 2026.

Daniel Lander, a senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Michele Wu and the chair of Boston’s Ward 21 Democratic Committee that represents Allston, Brighton, and Fenway, has pulled papers to run for the seat Brownsberger has held for the past 15 years.

“The communities of this district are under attack from the Trump Administration. We need a State Senate that stands up for our knowledge economy, brings down costs, and isn’t stuck defending a broken status quo,” said Lander in an opening announcement of his campaign. “I look forward to hearing the concerns and dreams of residents and sharing my vision for an affordable, livable Massachusetts over the months to come.”

The Suffolk and Middlesex District includes most of the Fenway neighborhood and the Allston and Brighton neighborhoods of Boston, Watertown, Belmont, and West Cambridge.

First published in POLITICO’s Massachusetts Playbook newsletter on Dec. 10, Lander campaign is closely linked to a political squabble between Wu and Brownsberger over the mayor’s attempt to shift a more significant amount of property taxes onto businesses, in an attempt to reduce an expected 13 percent tax increase on residential homeowners in fiscal 2026. Brownsberger is one of the legislators working to stave off a vote on Wu’s initiative, which requires legislative approval. Local reporting points to Wu’s support of several candidates to stand against those legislators.

A graduate of Harvard College and the Kennedy School of Government, Lander has led a land audit of Boston that identified locations where hundreds of new affordable homes can be built while reducing red tape by authoring and implementing an executive order to accelerate the permitting process by 50 percent.

A native of Huron Village in West Cambridge, Lander has a strong connection to Belmont, being a member of Temple Beth El Center on Concord Avenue since he was a child. Lander’s father is Eric Lander, geneticist, mathematician, and molecular biologist known for his leadership of the Human Genome Project and as the founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. 

Usually the bi-annual state party primaries for both of Belmont’s Beacon Hill representatives are pro forma affairs, as the two long-time seat holders have been challenged once in the past decade when Jennifer Fries ran against State Rep. Dave Roger in 2020.

After the last Massachusetts legislative redistricting in 2021 that took effect in 2023, Belmont currently represents 25 percent of the population in the 2nd district, behind Boston (43 percent) and Watertown (32 percent), making for an interesting race if it remains a two-candidate contest. With the incumbent and challenger having natural constituencies, it would likely be that the race could be decided by Watertown voters, although Brownsberger resided in Watertown before moving to the “Town of Homes” in the early 1990s.

One observer noted the primary’s date of Sept. 1 will likely limit the participation of Boston voters in the student-heavy district as it coincides with the first days of classes and moving into dorms and apartments.

Next Act: Dionne Announces Candidancy For State Treasurer In 2026 General Election

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Following in the footsteps of her fellow Republican and Belmontian, Mitt Romney, Select Board member Elizabeth Dionne will be seeking to win statewide office in next year’s Massachusetts general election.

In what was becoming a not-so-surprising announcement made Tuesday, Dec. 9, Dionne is challenging incumbent Democratic State Treasurer Deb Goldberg, who many political pundits view as the most vulnerable officeholder on the state ballot in 2026.

In a statement released by Dionne on Tuesday, she said “[l]ike so many other residents of Massachusetts, I have had enough of the corruption, cronyism, and chaos happening in the treasurer’s office. It is time for a change. I will not be the treasurer for the insiders or special interest groups. I will be the taxpayers’ treasurer who answers to the people of Massachusetts.”

Goldberg has encountered controversy with her handling of the state’s Cannabis Control Commission and the 2024 firing of its Chair Shannon O’Brien, who was returned in September of this year to that post by a Suffolk County Superior Court judge.

Dionne also introduced a slogan – “The Taxpayers’ Treasurer” – a campaign website, VoteDionne.com, and a blue and green logo (see below.)

While having a limited experience with elected office – the Wellesley Road resident ran unopposed for the Select Board in 2023 and won election to the Belmont Town Meeting – Dionne has a formidable CV: graduating from Wellesley (BA Political Science), Cambridge (M.Phil., Political Theory), and Stanford Law, she worked at Goodwin Procter and taught constitutional law and political science at Wellesley and Boston College. And politics is in her blood as the daughter of John Harmer, who served in the California State Senate from 1966 to 1974 and for three months was Ronald Reagan’s last lieutenant governor.

Dionne told the Belmontonian she anticipates to run as a “Charlie Baker Republician” referring to the successful two-term Bay State governor whose policies and style led to a 74 percent approval rating according to a 2018 WBUR/MassINC poll, making him the most popular governor in the United States.

As a member of the Belmont Select Board, Dionne pushed the board to emphasize economic expansion with “[a] focus on long-term planning for Belmont’s financial health and infrastructure” she said in October when she announced that she would not seek re-election to the board.

Dionne championed revamping the zoning bylaws to promote a “friendlier” environment for businesses and developers by promoting commercial investment, the passage of the MBTA Communities Act by Town Meeting, and the current effort to pass overlay districts in Belmont Center and along Concord Avenue to spur a mix of retail and residential developments, and allow a hotel along Concord Avenue.

Nomination Papers For Town-Wide, Town Meeting Candidates Now Avaliable From Town Clerk

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For Belmont residents who are looking to make a difference in town goverance, candidate nomination papers for town-wide office and Town Meeting are now avaliable the week of Dec. 1 from the Town Clerk’s Office at Belmont Town Hall, according to Belmont Town Clerk Ellen Cushman.

All candidates must be registered voters of Belmont and US citizens. For those seeking a seat on the eight town-wide offices – there is no minimum on the number of offices a resident can run for – they need to gather at least 50 signatures of registered voters in Belmont. Town Meeting candidates most obtain at least 25 signatures of registered voters in your precinct. Cushman advises candidates to gather at least 10 percent more than the minumum signatures in case some are challenged.

Nomination papers are due back for signature certification by 5 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026.

Office hours for Town Hall to pick up and drop off papers or ask questions are Mondays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesdays through Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Fridays from 8 a.m. to Noon.

Got questions? Email quires to townclerk@belmont-ma.gov or call the Clerk’s office at 617-993-2603.

Soft Property Values, Heavy Debt Servicing, Results In Jump In Property Tax Rate As Average Tax Bill Nears $20K

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Photo: Belmont Board of Assessors’: (from left) Anthony Leccese, Mark Paolillo, and Daniel Dargon

With property values barely keeping up with inflation and the burden of heavy debt exclusion costs, Belmont property owners will see their Fiscal Year ’26 tax rate increase to $11.51 per thousand dollars from last years rate of $11.36, according to the Board of Assessors’ recommendations approved at the Belmont Select Board’s annual tax classificaton hearing.

The combination of a softening residential real estate prices, the yearly Proposition 2 1/2 increase to the tax levy and the impact of 11 debt exclusions – the Beech Street Senior Center, the Wellington Elementary School, the Underwood Pool, the fire station, five bond segments of the Middle and High School and the library and the sports facility totalling $138.9 million – which makes up approximately 12 percent of the total tax rate will result in the annual tax bill for an “average” Belmont single family residential house nudging up to the $20,000 level, reaching $19,580.

According to the Assessors’ analysis, the average value of a single family house in Belmont is $1,701,064, an increased of $51,700 from fiscal year 2025 when it stood at $1.65 million. The average value of a single family house statewide is $762,345 as of July 2025, according to Lamacchia Realty.

At the Monday, Dec. 1 meeting, Assessor’s Chair Dan Dargon said the appointed board was continuing its long-standing position rejecting seperate, or split, rates for residential and commercial properties, and not adopting a residential exemption for property owners.

Dargon said since commercial, industrial and personal property real estate makes up just 5.3 percent of Belmont’s property base, a split rate would not raise any more in taxes.

“Shifting a tax burden is not going to significantly benefit residences and you can adversely hurt commercial properties,” said Dargon, who said the town would need a commercial base of between 10 to 20 percent before “you start a shift.”

Unlike past years, residential exemptions has garnered the attention of residents and the Select Board. Residential exemption is a local-option property tax reduction that shifts the tax burden from primary-residence owners to owners of secondary homes, investment properties, and higher-valued homes.

As the Board Chair Matt Taylor noted, the exemption allows homeowners to deduct a fix amount off the property’s value, so owner occupied homes with lower accessed values will get more off their taxes, and shifting taxes to larger rental properties and high end homes. For example, a property valued at $850,000 would see a $1,121.66 reduction to their tax bill with a 10 percent exemption, while a property assessed at $2 million will see an increase of nearly $292.

Taylor said as the town encourages transit-oriented housing and condos through the MBTA Communities Act and the Belmont Center Overlay plan, “a homeowner deduction or residential exemption would encourage those apartments to be owner occupied,” which Dargon and Board member Mark Paolillo both agreed was “a really good point.”

But Select Board member Elizabeth Dionne warned of “unattended consequences” of a policy change that pushes the town to build condos and convert apartments units to condominums. “If you increase your number of condos, each would get a significantly larger percentage of the residential exemption so you might actually end up shifting your burden [to higher valued houses] that you didn’t anticipate.”

Former Select Board Chair Announces Run For Town Moderator: Interview With Adam Dash

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There will be more than one contested town-wide race at the Belmont Town Election as Adam Dash has confirmed he will seek the Town Moderator post currently held by Mike Crowley.

“I am in the race,” Dash told the Belmontonian.

The Goden Street resident, who served on the Select Board for two terms from 2017-2023, filed paperwork to create a candidate’s campaign committee on Nov. 14. Former School Committee member Amy Checkoway is the committee chair and Matt Lennon is the treasurer.

Town Moderator is a one-year term position. Nomination papers will be avaliable to potential candidates in the days after Thanksgiving, according to Town Clerk Ellen Cushman.

The Town Moderator In Belmont presides over Town Meeting and manages its proceedings, according to the Belmont Town Meeting Member Handbook. Main duties include setting the meeting’s agenda in coordination with other officials, making sure meetings run smoothly and fairly, and appointing members to several important committees such as the Warrant and the Comprehensive Capital Budget committees.

The Belmontonian held a short impromptu interview with Dash at the opening of the Belmont Sports Complex on Saturday. 

Belmontonian: Why are you running for Town Moderator?

Adam Dash: “I believe I have the skills to handle the position. It actually plays into my wheelhouse with the main four functions of it: One is making legal rulings on the fly during the Town Meeting. And I am a lawyer who does municipal law and ran large meetings in a hybrid fashion which I did for years on the Select Board. Second is experience appointing people to committees, and I did that for six years, appointing probably 300 to 400 people onto some 60- odd committees. Third, I will also be like a mentor and senior person to bounce ideas off of for other elected officials who can’t talk to each other due to the Open Meeting law. And, four, I think that I could do some things to improve how town meeting is functioning. I was the chief of the executive branch as chair in the Select Board, and I made fundamental changes and improvements to that during my time, and I would like to do that as the chair of the legislative branch.”

Something I will focus on will be appointing Warrant Committee members to make sure that we had balance geographically in town, and that we have representation of other people in town.

Adam Dash, candidate for Town Moderator

Belmontonian: One area the current moderator has emphasized is beefing up the Warren Committee in its role of financial watchdog for Town Meeting. What do you see the role of the Warrant Committee and would you make any changes to that?

Dash: “As someone who was for nine years on the Warren Committee, including being its vice chair and two subcommittee chairs, I am intimately involved in how the Warren Committee operates, and I can tell you that they do Yeoman’s work that nobody ever sees, as far as providing budgetary help and information, interviewing department heads and making recommendations to town meeting. I believe Town Meeting takes that very seriously.”

“Something I will focus on will be appointing Warrant Committee members to make sure that we had balance geographically in town, and that we have representation of other people in town. We have a large Asian community. When I first was on the board, there were probably almost no Asian residents on any of the committees. There were no women on the Zoning Board of Appeals. Those are things that I went out and talked to people, to get them to apply, so we could actually make the committees look like Belmont. These are things that I’ve done quite a lot for very long time, over a lot of committees.”

Belmontonian: Under your leadership, what would the Town Moderator’s relationship be with the border community?

Dash: “I think [Town Moderator] has been a good sounding board. For instance, when I had some ideas and I wanted to talk to somebody, I could not talk to the other Select Board members outside of a meeting. I also did not want to put the Town Administrator in any questionable position, because she has to work for all the Select Board members. However, I could talk to the Town Moderator [Mike Widmer], not to get policy ideas, but to just sort of get a sounding board. I think I have the experience in town from my time on the Zoning Board and the Warrant Committee, the Pool Building Committee, High School Building Committee, Structural Change Impact group and the Capital and the CPA committees, and the Select Board. All of those things give me a very broad, big view of the big picture. And as a lawyer who gives counsel to people, I think that I could fulfill that role, which is an unofficial, unwritten job of the Moderator that is not as robust as it could be.”

Belmont Town Election will be held on Tuesday, April 7, 2026.

Dionne Stepping Down From Select Board, ‘Doesn’t End My Commitment To Public Service’

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Elizabeth Dionne, who helped transform the Belmont Select Board into a more business friendly body and who actively supported a pro-economic growth agenda for the town, announced she will not seek re-election to her post in the coming Town Election in April, 2026.

“Serving on the Select Board has been one of the greatest honors of my life,” Dionne said in a press release dated Nov. 17. “This community’s trust has meant everything to me, and I am immensely proud of the work we have accomplished together.” 

Dionne – who is in her last year of her first three-year term on the board – said she expects to complete her current term.

While she did not elaborate her reason for leaving the board, “it doesn’t end my commitment to public service. I will be announcing future plans shortly.” Speculation of Dionne’s next move range from a run for higher office or a move to a state agency.

“Elizabeth will be hard to replace. She’s a reformer who believes that Belmont can and should tackle its most deep-seated problems,” said fellow Select Board member Taylor Yates.

An attorney who advocates for special education students, the Wellesley Road resident made a name in town as a member of Town Meeting, Warrant Committee and as chair of the Community Preservation Committee before joining the Select Board in 2023 winning the seat unopposed.

During her tenure, Dionne said she brought “thoughtful fiscal stewardship, commitment to transparent government, and [a] focus on long-term planning for Belmont’s financial health and infrastructure.” A central theme of Dionne’s stewardship has been revamping the zoning bylaws to promote a “friendlier” environment for businesses and developers by promoting commercial investment.

“I remain deeply committed to Belmont and its future,” Dionne added. “I look forward to supporting a smooth transition and to continuing my work as an active and engaged resident. This town is full of talented, passionate people, and I am confident the next Select Board Member will continue building on the significant progress we’ve already made.”

With Dionne’s exit, the first question many are asking is who is likely to run for her seat. When asked, many residents well versed in local politics responded that there is no clear front runner, and those who would be seen as a potential candidate have opted out when approached.

“The election to replace her may well be about whether or not we’re willing to continue making the changes needed to fix our Town,” said Yates.

Select Board Designates Belmont Police Chief Screening Committee; Q&A With A Member

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Photo: Mark Paolillo returns to serve on his second Police Chief Screening Committee

The Belmont Select Board on Wednesday, Oct. 22, selected the final three seats on the 2025 Police Chief Screening Committee, to fill the position after the retirement of Chief James MacIsaac.

MacIsaac, who announced he was leaving on Aug. 7, is now the director of Campus Safety and Security at the Middlesex School in Concord, MA. Assistant Belmont Police Chief Mark Hurley was named the department’s interim head by the Select Board on Aug. 21.

The members of the Screening Committee are:

  • Didier Moise, president of Belmont Against Racism and a member of the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee,
  • Mark Paolillo, former four-term Select Board member who served on the last Police Chief screening committee in 2019,
  • Roy Epstein, former two-term Select Board member,
  • Patrice Garvin, Belmont Town Administrator,
  • Dr. Jill Geiser, Belmont Schools Superintendent,
  • Thomas Browne, current Chief of Police in Burlington,
  • Mauro Lance, Formally on the Board of Directors, current member of the Foundation for Belmont Education and the YMCA of Metro North.

Some residents put in their two cents into the selection process.

Ira Morgenstern, Precinct 7, voiced his “concern” about the makeup of the [screening] committee as it ignores the problems created from the department’s “poorly handled exit” from the Civil Service system in 2024.

“I ask the Select Board review the candidates for the selection committee and get feedback from the police rank and file” before it finalize that committee,” he said. Garvin corrected Morganstern saying it was incorrect to say the removal of civil service created the level of vacancies in the department, as the last three hires under the town’s Civil Service have left, each keeping their civil service positions.

The board each were the recipiants of an old fashion “poison pen” letter – which has a rich history in Belmont politics – directed at Epstein, “impugning … his integrity and honesty.” But this old-timey spitball to influence the board was cast aside with a collective eyeroll.

“Even when I disagree with [Epstein], I’ve ended up respecting him more. I absolutely meant that as an extremely high compliment,” said Matt Taylor, board chair.

Mark Paolillo knows something about Police Chiefs: He’s the son of one, Cambridge Police Chief Anthony Paolillo, and he help hire Belmont’s most recent chief, James MacIssac, as the head of the selection committee. Paolillo gave his view on the process facing the committee and what he’ll be looking for in a candidate during the break in the second night of Special Town Meeting.

Belmontonian: What’s your expectations being part of this committee, having been a veteran of the previous one?

Paolillo: “I think we’re going to find the best candidate possible. I don’t know whether we’ve gotten direction from the Select Board as to whether it’s just internal candidates or external or both. When I was on the screening committee (in 2019), my colleagues, Adam Dash and Tom Caputo, and I established the criteria that we were looking for, the type of individual that we wanted to assume this responsibility. We agreed to look at internal candidates first, And we thought, if we don’t find those qualifications, we’ll go external. So it sounds to me as though I haven’t been told that this is both internal and external. I think that’s the right approach.”

Belmontonian: What qualities and qualifications are you looking for in a candidate?”

Paolillo: “I’m looking for someone that can do the job, similar to what Chief McIsaac did and also Chief Paul McLaughlin. I think what’s so important within our town, because it is such an activist community, is someone that reaches out to the community, listens to the concerns and has a presence in town. And particularly individuals who are empathetic to what’s taking place at a national level. We’re all against, of course, any ICE agents coming into our community and trying to do what they’ve been doing in other communities. I would hope that would be someone who would listen to our concerns about that as well.”

Belmontonian: There has been talk about low morale in the department. Will having someone who can tackle that a priority for the committee?

“I think that’s absolutely the case. I don’t know what the situation is, but if there is a morale issue, I think that’s what a new person needs to address. I’m really concerned about that. I don’t know where the new [salary and benefits] negotiations are at this time. Perhaps that’s part of the issue that’s taking place here. If it hasn’t, that needs to be settled. I think we need to address that matter. These men and women put their lives in line every day for our for our public safety, and I think we need to sort of ensure that they’re taken care of. The new chief, whoever that might be, understands that needs to be addressed.”

As Negotiations Reach Inflection Point, School Committee Chair Calls To ‘Keep Our Schools Open’

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Photo: School Committee Chair Meg Moriarty at the Butler Elementary School

Days before an Oct. 9 public forum hosted by Belmont’s educators union to discuss the stalled salary negotiations on a new teachers contract, the leader of the town’s School Committee came before the Select Board to provide its prospective on where the talks stand, and asking the town’s administrative body to provide “additional guidance” to resolve the current impasse.

School Committee Chair Meg Moriarty said the committee’s “goal is a contract that values our educators and sustains strong schools while staying within reoccurring, predictable revenues.”

But with a significant pay gap separating the two groups, Moriarty also directed her comments to the Belmont Education Association as the prospect of a labor action grows by the day.

“Many of our students lived through the years of disruption during COVID. They need stability and consistency in their learning, and we owe it to them to keep them in our schools, keep our schools open, and keep learning uninterrupted while the adults work through this process,” she said.

Moriarty said the committee “has been very transparent and honest with the school community” by providing regular factual updates, recapping sessions, sharing proposals and data. The committee has presented “multiple salary offers” made with “the knowledge of the financial constraints” facing the town.

In the past two years, the town’s budget has provided the schools a shrinking level of revenue increase.

“Compensation remains a major issue,” said Moriarty, revealing the committee has proposed Fiscal Year ’26 [pay] raises across all units that are competitive with neighboring and peer school districts, that keep Belmont’s top salaries “among the highest in our comparative districts and beyond.”

While the committee’s raises are “sustainable” within future schools budgets, “by contrast, the BEA’s latest proposals call for about $1.2 million more in Fiscal Year ’26 and more than $5 million more over the three years of the contract.” To meet the association’s demands would “almost certainly require cuts to staffing levels and programs, increasing workloads to those who remain and at the heart of all of this are our students,” she said.

Moriarty acknowledged that Belmont’s nationally recognized schools are due to the community’s commitment to its educators and students. And “we need to get back to the important work, the work of teaching and learning, and keeping our focus on our students.”

“These negotiations are taking far too much time and energy away from that shared mission,” she said.

Moriarty then turned to the Select Board to ask for guidance in the negotiations, specifically “whether you expect the School Committee to stay within the [budget] allocation provided to us, or whether you see any other paths forward.”

“The School Committee remains committed to good faith negotiation and to a contract that values our educators, is good for our students, and sustains Belmont schools for the long term. Verbal or written guidance, once you have time to discuss on an agenda, is appreciated by the School Committee,” said Moriarty.

While the Select Board’s counsel will likely be forthcoming at its next meeting in late October, one board member made her opinion known on Monday.

Board Member Elizabeth Dionne said the board has received “a number of e-mails from parents asking the town to acquiesce to the educator’s contact demands. She said that “often times parents are not aware” that “approximately 70 percent of the budget goes to support schools and 30 percent of the budget goes to support town services.”

“We have consistently been cutting positions on the town side while adding positions to the schools which we acknowledge the need for,” said Dionne. “I’m not saying they’re unnecessary, but … the town and its residents have been very, very generous about supporting schools. We value our schools. I don’t see that the town can afford anymore.”

Work To Start On Revamping Playing Fields West Of Harris Field, Softball Diamond

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Photo: The West of Harris Field play grounds and the former varsity softball diamond

Six years after ground breaking on the Belmont Middle and High School, the town has approved a plan to reconstruct the playing ground known as West of Harris Field, which is the final work required to complete the School’s campus.

On Monday, Sept. 30, the Select Board award the West of Harris Fields renovations contract to MJ Cataldo Inc. of Littleton for $765,000. The project will renovate the fields and softball diamond West of Harris Field, create a shot put circle and sector as well as putting up new fencing.

According to Belmont DPW Director Jay Marcotte, work on the project will begin in November.

The project started as a Community Preservation Committee request simply to redo the long-time softball field. In May, Belmont Town Administrator Patrice Garvin and Belmont Schools Superintendent Dr. Jill Geiser presented an CPC application seeking $429,000 to redevelop the former varsity softball field at the far end of the BMHS campus adjacent to the new Belmont Sports Complex and the MBTA commuter rail tracks.

While the softball renovation was being considered, the Municipal Skating Rink Building Committee in charge of building the rink was using the JV soccer field, located next to the softball field, as lay down area for steel and material for the rink’s construction. Using the lay down area was on condition that when the project was completed at the end of 2025, “the construction manager would put the field back as it found it,” Garvin told the board.

“So when we started looking at the softball field, we realized there was some economies of scale that we could potentially capitalize on in regards to taking two projects and making it one to be bid out,” said Garvin. “So we really wanted to take what was approved at Town Meeting and elevated to another level.”

Working with Mark Haley, the chair of the Building Committee, the DPW, and the landscaping firm Activitas Inc., the town created construction bid documents for a single project, “hoping for a better price.”

“So this is really an effort between what we were able to appropriate from CPC, the Rink Building project through the construction manager, and the DPW to make the best projects we can,” said Garvin.

The funding sources for the project are CPC and the Rink Building Committee, along with some Revolving Field Funds, said Marcotte.

Twelve construction firms bid on the project with Cataldo coming in a low bidder, said DPW’s Marcotte.

State Rep. Dave Rogers Comes Out With Local Office Hours For October

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Belmont’s State Rep. Dave Rogers has announced his October office hours.

  • Tuesday, Oct. 14, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Beech Street Center, 266 Beech St.
  • Friday, Oct. 17, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Bellmont Caffe, 80 Leonard St.
  • Thursday, Oct. 23, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Tilde Coffee, 2376 Massachusetts Ave., North Cambridge.
  • Monday, Oct. 27, from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Robbins Library, Arlington, 700 Massachusetts Ave., Arlington.

Feel free to contact Rogers’ office with questions by phone 617-722-2263 or by email at dave.rogers@mahouse.gov.