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11-Year-Old Summits Mount Kilimanjaro

August 28, 2026
This summer looked a little different for 11-year-old Olivia Trainor. Trainor, a rising sixth-grader at Chenery Upper Elementary School, hiked Mount Kilimanjaro with her mother, Brittany Caruso, last month. The journey up the Tanzanian volcano, the highest peak in Africa, took nine…

Belmont Resident Celebrates 104 Years of Life, Learning

August 24, 2025
Decades ago, Richard “Doc” Vallon worked as a shoeshiner. For one nickel, he polished and shined his customers’ leather shoes on Boston Common. Today, the wooden shoeshining kit still sits in Vallon’s Belmont home. Inside the box are the old bristle brushes,…
A man in a white shirt and jacket gesturing.
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Armenian Cultural Center Finds a Home on Concord Avenue

August 5, 2025
Neatly piled stacks of books – many of them rare – sit atop several tables inside the Mardigian Library waiting to be sorted, cataloged, and, if need be, conserved. Their pages contain stories of Armenia’s 3,000-year history and culture that might otherwise…

The History of a One-Cow Town

August 5, 2025
Before there were rows of tombstones, what is now Highland Meadow Cemetery looked like much of Belmont, rolling fields, open to agriculture. The pastures on the hill were the property of Winthrop Ward Chenery. In documents provided by the Belmont Historical Society,…

Belmont Man Receives Honorary Doctorate

July 18, 2025
On Hurley Street lives a man who’s been in the same house for 25 years. He cooks extravagant Italian meals for himself; bolognese sauce is perhaps his best dish. Until recently, he’d call his daughters each winter to tell them that he…

Belmont Beekeepers Safely Relocate Honeybee Swarm

June 26, 2025
On a recent afternoon, some residents had noticed that in a tall, leafy tree near the sidewalk on Leicester Street, there was an enormous swarm of bees. The gathering was oblong, hanging from a branch that was drooping from the weight. “With…
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When Winslow Homer Called Belmont ‘Home’

May 30, 2025
Although the skyline is different now, renowned American painter Winslow Homer may have looked out at sweeping views of Belmont from the cupola of his uncle’s home, which still stands today, more than 160 years later. It was at the 1853 William…
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