Editor’s Note: What follows is a short (300 word) endorsement of Ms. Alexandra Ruban, a candidate for Belmont Selectwoman. It will appear in the Belmont Citizen Herald tomorrow and has already appeared over at Franklin Tucker’s Belmontonian, where it elicited…
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A KISS for the Community Path: Keep It Simple, Selectmen
On the matter of Belmont’s planned Community Path, I have one piece of advice for our town leadership, which is KISS – Keep It Simple Selectmen.* If you don’t already know, the Community Path is a critical piece of 21st…
Call To Action: Show Support For Belmont Community Path Monday Evening!
Supporters of an off road Community Path linking Belmont Center and Waverley Square to Alewife and the Minuteman Trail need to come to the Board of Selectmen’s Monday Evening (Dec. 14) meeting to hear a report from the Community Path Implementation Advisory Committee (CPIAC) and to show their support for 21st Century Infrastructure in the Town of Homes.
Updated: Important Meetings This Week with Commuter Rail Access, Library on the Agenda
This article has been updated to clarify that the Library Long Range Planning meeting Tuesday is focused on Library programming that the Library will offer, not issues concerning the library building itself. PFR Nov 16 2015. Much of the…
Sign Up Now for Belmont’s Fall Classic: The 3rd Dan Scharfman 5K
October is almost upon us and that means that Belmont’s new fall classic, the Dan Scharfman Memorial Run is just around the corner. Sponsored by the Foundation for Belmont Education, with support from a wide range of local businesses. More…
We win!!
With the polls closed, the unofficial vote total is in and shows a strong victory for the YES campaign: Yes: 4728 (55%) No: 3818 (45%)
Belmontonian: Put Aside Fear, Vote YES Today!
With just a few hundred words, Editor Franklin Tucker has perfectly articulated the need for the town to vote YES on Question 1, and exposed the NO Campaign – funded almost entirely by former Warrant Committee member Liz Allison – for what it is: a cynical attempt to derail needed and long overdue investment in the town and schools.
Funding our future: why I’m voting YES
This has been a heated campaign, with spirited debates and high emotions on both sides. (Did I really just get a reminder from the BPD that stealing political signs is a crime??) But the choice posed to Belmont is remarkably clear. You can vote YES to invest in Belmont’s future: its roads, sidewalks, schools, libraries and public buildings. Or you can vote NO and send a message that you think Belmont should make do with less – poorer services, decaying infrastructure, diminished schools.
Belmont’s No Nothings
We didn’t need Warrant Committee member Adam Dash to hold up a student’s tattered, 20 year old text book, as he did at last week’s Candidate’s Night debate, to grasp the depths to which our Town of Homes has fallen.…
Final Stretch: Five Ways To Say ‘Yes For Belmont’ This Week
We’re a little more than a week away from the April 7th Town Election. If you’ve been sitting on the sidelines and watching the orange lawn signs drift by outside the car window, the time is NOW to get off your…