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Opinion: One person’s ideas on Waverley Square

August 5, 2009
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Opinion: One person’s ideas on Waverley Square

What change should be promoted to encourage a more pedestrian friendly environment in Waverley Square?

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Teaching jobs in Belmont: tougher (much) than getting into Harvard

July 29, 2009
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Teaching jobs in Belmont: tougher (much) than getting into Harvard

At Winn Brook Elementary, for example, Principal Janet Carey wrote this week that she fielded around 700 applications for four open positions at that school to replace retiring staff or accomodate larger than expected classes: one first grade teacher, two, fourth grade teachers and an art teacher. That's 175 applicants per position, or an...

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Marathon Town Meeting ends with dramatic vote on free cash, library aides

June 2, 2009
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Marathon Town Meeting ends with dramatic vote on free cash, library aides

An amendment by TM member Anne Mahon targeted at using free cash to preventing cuts at Belmont High School and preserving elementary library aides looked like a long shot, but won overwhelming support at Town Meeting last night. Where were you when you heard the Cat Leash speech?

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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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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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