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Mary Byrne

Mary Byrne

Mary Byrne is a member of The Belmont Voice staff. Mary can be contacted at mbyrne@belmontvoice.org.

FBE Donation Will Stock Middle School Library

June 6, 2024
Last year, at a Belmont Middle and High School event, Foundation for Belmont Education (FBE) President Melissa McKenna noticed a “glaring” absence of books in the middle school’s library. She said other parents that night expressed a similar concern, so she began…
A young boy in a brown Tshirt.

Belmont Polyglot Snares Chance to Study in Taiwan

June 5, 2024
From an early age, rising Belmont High School senior Benjamin Hanna had an affinity for languages. In preschool, he started taking Chinese lessons. Years later, as a middle school student, he continued that study. He speaks Vietnamese with his mother and grandmother…

Public Weighs in on Skating Rink Budget

June 1, 2024
In advance of the special Town Meeting next month, where members will be asked to appropriate an additional $2.1 million toward the municipal skating rink budget, residents had the opportunity to air concerns and ask questions of the committee tasked with overseeing…

Police Union: Morale Low Amid Hiring Concerns

June 1, 2024
More than six months after Town Meeting voted on a measure it hoped would address Belmont Police Department’s “hiring problem,” the department is operating at roughly 80% capacity. According to Officer Cory Taylor, president of the Belmont Police Patrolman’s Association, the vacancies,…
Car on a road.

Traffic Agreement Could Spark McLean Development

May 27, 2024
For the first time in years, forward movement is on the horizon for the McLean redevelopment. But before that can happen, developers—in conjunction with the town and McLean Hospital—have revised a nearly 25-year-old traffic management agreement that will require ratification at the…

Town Meeting Reconvenes May 29

May 24, 2024
The next series of articles are on deck for Town Meeting on Wednesday night. Next week’s meeting, which will begin at 7 p.m. at the Belmont High School auditorium, is a continuation of the meeting that began on April 29. During the…
Belmont School Administration Building

Parents Voice Concern Over Counselor Position Reconfiguration

May 23, 2024
Several parents and even one of the district’s younger students appeared before the School Committee recently to raise concerns about a plan to move one of the two counselors from Butler Elementary School to Chenery Upper Elementary School. The reallocation of resources…
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