Photo: The final walk out of school at the Wellington. Do you hear the pupils sing? Singing the songs of no more school. Unless it snows today, Wednesday, June 20 is the final day of the 2017-18 school year in Belmont. Coincidentally, it’s also the final day of spring as the summer solstice occurs on […]
Photo: Mortarboard saying With a cool 60-degrees outside keeping the temp ceremony below the usual sweltering conditions of past graduations, the Wenner Field House was packed with family, relatives, and friends who witnessed a record 331 seniors from the class of 2018 graduate from Belmont High School on Sunday, June 3. The afternoon was filled […]
Photo: All Aboard. Entering Belmont High School less than three hours after graduation last Sunday, June 3, you’d have found yourself on the gangplank to a voyage into the future. The 44th annual Belmont High School All Night Party transformed the hallways, the lunchroom and the school’s auditorium into a cruise ship – “USS Marauder” […]
Photo: Belmont High seniors Haley Brown (left) and Eva Hill are working to reinstate popular English teacher Roanne Bosch whose contract was not extended after two years. You’d be hard-pressed to find a Belmont High School student who didn’t enjoy having Roanne Bosch as their English teacher. “She’s everything a teacher should be, noted Brown; […]
Photo: Jill Norton of the Belmont School Committee. It was a political gesture that’s hardly seen in an age of insulting opponents and demeaning the process. A vote to fill the vacant seat on the Belmont School Committee by a joint meeting of the Belmont Board of Selectmen and the School Committee, on Friday, May 11, resulted in […]
Photo: The annual Blacker Prizes will be bestowed on Wednesday, May 16. The Belmont High School English Department will present the annual Lillian F. Blacker Prizes for Excellence in Writing on Wednesday evening, May 16, at 6:30 p.m. in the Peter Holland Library at Belmont High School. This year, we will honor seniors James Kitch, […]
Photo: Skanska USA named construction manager of the new high school. A familiar face will construct the new Belmont High School as Skanska USA was selected as the project’s Construction Manager by a subcommittee of the Belmont High School Building Committee on Tuesday, May 8. Subcommittee Chair Patricia Brusch told the Belmontonian the multinational construction and development company […]
Photo: Thomas L. Brow. The Belmont School District has appointed Thomas L. Brow as the interim Principal of Belmont High School for the coming 2018-2019 school year. Brow currently serves as a part-time assistant principal at Belmont High. “We are delighted that Tom has agreed to serve as Interim Principal of Belmont High School for the […]
Photo: Four residents have submitted letters of interest in filling the vacant slot on the Belmont School Committee when Tom Caputo became a member of the Belmont Board of Selectmen in April. A joint meeting of the Board of Selectmen and School Committee will interview the candidates and select one of the four to join […]
Photo: There will be a virtuality reality tour of the new school. Residents don’t have to wait five years before taking a tour around a new Belmont High School as they are invited to view a virtual reality presentation of the interior of the proposed building housing 7th through 12th grades as the Belmont High […]