Photo: “Crossing the line” Cole Bartels. Belmont High’s Senior Cole Bartels’ final pitch of his high school career was a fastball that overpowered the batter, forcing a lazy infield pop-up for the third out of the fifth inning. It was appropriate that one of the most dominating pitchers in school history – and that includes […]
Photo: Belmont Girls’ Basketball team celebrates its victory at Marblehead. The great American philosopher and pugilist Mike Tyson says that everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. And for most of the opening quarter of its playoff game at 7th-seed Marblehead Thursday, March 3, Belmont High Girls’ Basketball took a good […]
Photo: Powering home, Belmont senior Leah Brams wins third Middlesex League Meet title. Just past the mile mark in the 2.5-mile course, as the runners crest the steepest hill on the course, doubt entered Leah Brams head. Running from the front in the Middlesex League Meet in Woburn on Monday, Nov. 2, the two-time champion […]
Photo: Mosquito in Belmont. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced Thursday, Aug. 6, that the West Nile virus was detected in one mosquito collected from Belmont. WNV is transmitted to humans by the bite of a mosquito infected with the virus. While WNV can infect people of all ages, those 50 and older are at higher risk for […]