Ready for Belmont 2.0? Mapping Belmont's Renewal is a forum on Wed, April 16th. Sponsored by the Planning Committee and Office of Community Development, it will solicit residents' input on important development considerations such as the need for economic development, building sustainable neighborhoods, quality of life issues, as well as parking, transportation, land use...
Want to be a part of the grass roots? Together for Wellington, the citizen's group that supports the construction of a new Wellington Elementary School, is looking for volunteers to help us do some canvassing and voter identification both in Prencinct 8 and in other precincts.
A vote on a debt exclusion for the construction of Wellington Elementary School could make it onto the April ballot after all...if state and town officials can hammer out a funding agreement by the end of the day.
A poll from the BCH and a survey from the town give you two opportunities to have your voice heard. Check them out!
I've decided to run for what's left of Diane Stafford's three year term on School Committee.
Going into 2009 Belmont’s schools are facing a tough budget crunch, and this is a great time for Belmont parents and supporters of the schools to get involved....Stand for Children is in the early stages of establishing a Belmont chapter, and we are looking for committed people to join the chapter and make a...
Question 1 is a gimmick -- it's a ham fisted and poorly thought out effort to "make a point" to those hated bureaucrats on Beacon Hill, consequences be damned. As MTF notes, the state could fire all 68,000 people in its employ and still save only $5b, leaving $7b left to cut. While Belmont...
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...
This continues my post from last week on my recent interview with Will Brownsberger, longtime Belmont Selectman and now our State Rep. You can read the first part of the interview here. BloggingBelmont (B2): Bring us up to date on the Uplands issue. As I understand it, there’s been progress on the uplands in...
This is the latest installment in a series of interviews BloggingBelmont is doing with some of the leading thinkers and decision makers in the Belmont Community — those folks who help shape the town that we live in. For this latest In the Mix, BloggingBelmont sat down with State Rep. Will Brownsberger, a longtime...
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