Photo: Commuter trains along the Fitchburg line at Belmont’s Brighton Street intersection. An unidentified 21-year-old man was killed early Monday morning, Aug. 19, when he was hit by a commuter rail train as he attempted to cross the tracks at Brighton Street, according to Transit Police. It is unknown which hospital Belmont EMT took the […]
Photo: Pile driving set to start on Tuesday. Get ready, Belmont. Beginning early next week, the neighbors living near the Belmont Middle and High School construction site will soon be listening to 10 hours a day of “the rockinest, rock-steady beat” of pile driving madness. That’s the word from Skanska, the project’s general contractor, which […]
Photo: Open for the crowds With the expected weather forecast for this weekend calling for record heat, the Belmont Recreation Department is anticipating a high volume of users at the Underwood Pool at the corner of Cottage and Concord. Following state code, the pool may not exceed 275 swimmers in the water at any given […]
Photo: Final walk out of the Wellington. The unofficial start of summer begins today, Monday, June 17 as Belmont marks the final day of the 2018-19 public school year. Students won’t be spending the entire day in class as it is an early release for all grades. Belmont High School: 10:30 a.m. Chenery Middle School: […]
Photo: Belmont Middle and High School in 2023. After more than a decade of planning, applications, the largest debt exclusion vote in town history and dozens and dozens of public meetings, the inaugural step in the construction of Belmont’s newest school will take place the day after Memorial Day when the Belmont High School Building […]
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: The finish line of the BAA Marathon. There are some fast neighbors in Belmont as 37 residents completed the 122nd BAA Marathon on a warm and wet Patriots’ Day on Monday, April 16. They joined a capacity 32,500 runners who traveled the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to Boston on the historic course of the […]
Photo: The Battle of Lexington by William Barnes Wollen. Today is Patriots’ Day (or Patriot’s Day as it’s known in Maine) commemorating the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, the initial clash of arms of the American Revolutionary War. The holiday was once celebrated on April 19 but now is observed […]
All it took was a single snow day for last classes at Belmont’s six public schools to be dragged over a weekend. Belmont School Superintendent John Phelan announced at the School Committee meeting held on Tuesday, April 9, the definitive final day of the 2018-2019 school year, no matter what weather related event – June […]
Belmont is on the forefront of local communities who have taken action to reduce its part in global climate change. More than a decade ago, Town Meeting in 2008 adopted a climate action plan to reduce the town’s green house gases by 80 percent by the year 2050. Since then, the town and Town Meeting […]