Unless the legislature comes through with funding to support the T in its current (already reduced, fared-up) state, the cuts are going to be deep. According to the released document, the T is proposing two alternate plans - both of them bad, and one of them terrible for Belmont.
School Committee member Dan Scharfman is the latest to pick up papers to run for a seat on the Board of Selectmen, following the decision by current member Angelo Firenze not to seek re-election. Scharfman is the third person to step forward after Matt Sullivan of the Board of Library Trustees and Andy Rojas...
So…hopefully you all know by now about Will’s victory in the Democratic Primary last night. If you’re hearing it for the first time now, I’d refer you to this write up in the Belmont Citizen Herald, or this one at The Globe (onerous paywall). After that, though, I just saw this excellent analysis by Franklin...
In which Paul discovers that, despite voting in almost every election for the past six years, he is an "Inactive Voter" in Belmont - one of about 4,000 in town (one in four registered voters), according to an updated list compiled by the Town Clerk.
I don't think its any surprise that, of the four, Will garnered the endorsement of both the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald - quite a feat, as the two are hardly kindred spirits editorially. Still, both papers focused on what I've found to be Will's strongest trait as well: his pragmatism, strong...
We’re here at the third installment of Town Meeting, after a quick and dirty detour through a special Town Meeting. Rep. Will Brownsberger is giving us an update on the budget picture at the State level and, of intense interest to those here, the local aid picture for the Town of Homes. Long and...
