A poll from the BCH and a survey from the town give you two opportunities to have your voice heard. Check them out!
Vote for Me for School Committee!
I’ve decided to run for what’s left of Diane Stafford’s three year term on School Committee.
Shovel ready? Roads, sewers on list of projects considered for bailout money
Town officials submitted no fewer than 17 shovel ready projects to the state, with a price tag north of $30 million. Road, sewer and other improvement to municipal buildings top the list and range from a $14m project to rebuild 2.5 miles of new roadway and improved drainage along Trapelo Rd. and Belmont St., to a $35 request for a fan to blow exhaust out of the town’s municipal garage.
BCH: School Committee taps Entwistle for Super
he Belmont Citizen Herald is reporting that the School Committee has tapped George Entwistle, the Superintendent of Falmouth, Maine, as its choice to head Belmont’s Public School system starting next year. Entwistle was one of two finalists, along with Ashland Superintendent Richard Hoffman, and won unanimous support from School Committee members, who responded especially to Entwistle’s record as a consensus builder in Falmouth, a highly ranked school district in the state that serves around 2,100 students.
Who let the dogs out?
Oberdorfer throws a wheelhouse punch at everything that he perceives to be wrong in town. Those include: “so-called liberals,” the Senior Center, town administrators (there are too many of ’em) and, of course, “our beknighted School Department,” “compliant School Committee” and … wait for it… “greedy” parents. Oberdorfer accuses this last troika of a “conspiracy against suffering property owners.”
Weeks of Leaks: Nat. Grid says larger fix needed on Brighton St.
An earlier “fix” by utility National Grid did not stop a leak that cropped up on Brighton St. in December, and the company now says that it will have to replace replacement of around 200 feet of gas line on Brighton Street to stop it.