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Lights out on lights out

September 28, 2008
By bloggingbelmont
Lights out on lights out

As reported in today’s Sunday Globe, it looks like the town’s plans to turn off its street lights is back on the shelf. If you’ve been following this in the town paper and online, you know that Town Administrator Tom Younger worked up a plan to shut off street lights on most of the...
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Eats roads for breakfast…

September 9, 2008
By proberts

After months of back and forth and, sadly, a failed Prop 2 1/2 Override vote to fund comprehensive road reconstruction in town, repaving, such as it is, kicked off this week across town. I’m not usually one who stops to marvel at heavy equipment, but this bad boy going by on Cross St. yesterday morning...
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94% of parents opt for full day kindergarten

September 6, 2008
By proberts

This is somewhat old news, but given BloggingBelmont’s long running coverage of the push by parents in town for a  Full Day Kinergarten program, I thought it was worth calling readers’ attention to a little noticed factoid from a recent BCH article “Six hour day for 6 year olds.” Full day kindergarten is a runaway success in...
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