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.
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...
Just a note that the Belmont PTA/PTO will be screening Race To Nowhere: The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture tomorrow evening (Thursday) at the Belmont Studio Cinema, with half the price of admission donated to Belmont’s Public Schools.PTO/PTA’s! The film takes on the “culture of hollow achievement and pressure to perform that has...
We’re back at Belmont Town meeting and waiting to get going here. This should be an abbreviated meeting, with just three articles to consider: the vote on the Community Preservation Act (Article 21) that the Town approved in November. The other articles, #24 and 25 consider a request from Angelo the Board of Selectmen...
We’re here at Town Meeting – we’ve dispensed with a lot of administrative business and are on to the meat of the Spring town meeting: Article 16 which is asking TM to approve the concept of the preliminary design of a new main library and authorize the Board of Library Trustees to apply for...
Came across an interesting infographic on the website Soshable.com. The source of the data is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which published the Education at a Glance survey back in July, 2010. You can find it here. The infographic was put together by Master-Degree-Online.com, which seems like some online degree mill that...
There are three zillion different ways you can slice the school spending pie and analyze the numbers, and none of them are particularly satisfying. One way, however, is to look at how much each town spends per resident on its schools, and by that matter Belmont is in the middle of the pack state...
Belmont Public Schools Superintendent George Entwistle has decided to step down after two years on the job, citing "personal, family reasons." Entwistle will be taking a position as Superintendent of the Scarborough, ME, school district.
A letter from Belmont High School Principal Mike Harvey details the cuts that would be necessary at the High School should the town fail to ask for or pass a Proposition 2 1/2 Override to repair a structural hole in the town's finances.
What can you do to show town leaders that you want to improve the quality of life in town and don't want to see town and school services slashed any deeper? Here's a check list of "to dos" over the coming weeks that will get you in the mix. It starts tonight with the...
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