Concord's "Indies" program supports locally owned businesses. Is it a model that could work in Belmont, too?
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Concord's "Indies" program supports locally owned businesses. Is it a model that could work in Belmont, too?
A proposed budget using the Warrant Committee's "Available Funds" for the school proposes eliminating five full time teaching positions, art and music instruction at the elementary school level, language instruction at the middle school level and steep cuts to support services district wide. Time to get angry, people!
What's the Chinese method of mothering? According to Yale Prof Amy Chua's new book, its a kind of maternal totalitarianism that encompasses a numbing collection of do's and even more don'ts. As in "Don't...attend a sleepover, have a playdate, be in a school play, complain about not being in a school play, watch TV...
This is apropos of nothing at all, but I thought I’d pass it along anyway, as it was one of the ‘viral videos’ this week – albeit a pretty dated one. In any case – the back story here is that 18 years ago, AT&T made a series of commercials around the theme of...
Just a heads up, y'all, that there are a slew of important budget meetings looming, starting this Tuesday evening, January 11, when School Superintendent, Dr. Entwistle will present the proposed FY 2012 budget to the School Committee. This meeting is in the Community Room at Chenery Middle School and will be the public's first...
Suddenly a pamphlet promoting a bike path connection to Belmont Center is "controversial." By the way, if you're wondering if your town has a NIMBY problem, terms like "controversial" and "bike path" popping up in close proximity to one another in the town paper are a good sign that, in fact, you do!