Sen. William Brownsberger has been very helpful with state money. The schools have certainly benefited. But if you watch closely, there is more.
Thirty-seven years ago, a house in our neighborhood had a yard stuffed with clutter. Most people who have lived in a house for 20 years have basements and attics heavy with stuff. This house had lots of old junk in its yard. Some close neighbors found the sight of the nearby junk reflected poorly on their properties. Brownsberger investigated. The owners of the junk did not like the junk, but they did not know what to do. Brownsberger recruited a DPW truck and driver for a Saturday, and he got volunteers to help move the junk. The volunteers and Will spent hours making the junk disappear.
The Community Path has been stuck several times because problems required more than a committee of volunteer townspeople and a hired design company to move forward. Brownsberger spent time with high-level T management to find and provide information and make decisions about underground tunnel construction methods. During a public hearing about how to get the Community Path across Brighton Street, Brownsberger was there as a bicycle rider giving insight about what was important. Not everyone is enthusiastic about the Community Path, but many students will benefit from having a short, safe route from the Winn Brook neighborhood to school that will not subject them to possible arrest by MBTA police.
For Will Brownsberger, the common theme of getting state money to Belmont and spending personal time moving the Community Path forward is helping people. Brownsberger delights in being able to help people.
Sumner Brown, Ross Road, Belmont
