A First Night celebration in Belmont would bring residents together, help out our downtown shops, and attract more businesses to town.
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Archive for December, 2008
Happy Holidays! Now about Next Year…
Firenze planning to run again in 2009
Selectman Angelo Firenze will run again for a second full term in 2009, The Belmont Citizen Herald is reporting.
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The high costs of doing nothing
The town's older schools are going to require capital investments that are 10x to 20x greater than the one new school (Chenery) in the next few years...and these are just the repairs that we know about.
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Grim projections on school funding in ’10
Forced to reduce School Dept. spending by $2.8m in the next school year, Belmont's public school system would be forced to make drastic cuts to staffing, materials and programming in 2010, according to a presentation by current Superintendent Dr. Pat Aubin and finance director Gerry Missal.
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School Committee weighs budget, other issues
After a long hiatus that included the Thanksgiving holiday and a trip to Moscow, I’m back and sitting in on Tuesday evening’s omnibus School Committee meeting, at which a number of issues are being tackled, including plans for a new Wellington elementary school, policy changes involving e-mail and job postings, and capital requests for...
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