Monthly Archives: May 2008

Guest perspective: Where was the Citizen Herald?

May 30, 2008
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Guest perspective: Where was the Citizen Herald?

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest perspective from Town Meeting Member David Powelstock (Precinct 4) regarding the recent controversy over pay increases and promotions for two school administrators: Pat Aubin and Gerry Missal. The views and opinions stated represent the opinions of Mr. Powelstock. In what is less a retraction than the latest...

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School Committee responds to BCH editorial

May 29, 2008
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The following is a reprint of an email from Superintendent Peter Holland to BPS parents. The email addresses a recent dust up between the Belmont School Committee and the Belmont Citizen Herald over promotions and pay increases to BPS administrators, as reported in the BCH. For those of you who haven’t been following this,...

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What’s your Walkscore?

May 27, 2008
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What’s your Walkscore?

One of the things that’s so great about Belmont, of course, is its proximity to…well…just about everything. We’ve got some great shopping districts with shops, restaurants, Starbucks and, as we on Town Meeting know — BANKS! Step back and we are all of seven miles to downtown Boston, but also close to major routes...

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Roads override? Bring it!

May 23, 2008
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The results of the first-ever bloggingbelmont readers’ poll are in, and they show strong (if statistically suspect) support for the upcoming roads override vote on June 9, as well as for the likely debt exclusion vote for Wellington Elementary. Forty four readers responded to our survey over the past three days. Of those, 25...

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Survey: Your feelings on the roads override (and those other overrides, too)

May 20, 2008
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First of all: check out the new Bloggingbelmont.com header graphic. I got tired of the standard Google maps graphic, so I used my handy Powershot to take this panorama pic from the Belmont Center train platform a week or so ago. Hope you like it. If you hate it or its messing up your...

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Belmont property values down 6%?

May 15, 2008
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I’m a big fan of the new breed of Web based real estate tracking sites like Zillow.com, Redfin.com and the like. They’re incredibly powerful tools for studying home values, researching towns and so on. The amount of information they consolidate — maps, demographics, public data on home sales and appraisals is amazing. That’s why...

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