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Belmont Electricity Rates Climb 6%; Residents Tighten Belts

April 13, 2026
Belmont Light raised its residential electricity rate by 6% on March 1, and residents say the increase has compounded a year of climbing energy costs that are straining household budgets. Sue Choquette, 60, a Belmont renter since 2021, opened her January bill…

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…
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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…
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Society Beauty Bar Coming to Belmont Center

June 3, 2024
Belmontians eyeing the empty Belmont Center storefronts may have noticed a sign announcing the impending arrival of Society Beauty Bar. The full-service hair salon is slated to open this summer at 73 Leonard St. Past Coverage Society Beauty Bar specializes in partial…

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,…

Belmont Marks Memorial Day

May 31, 2024
Members of the Waverley Post 1272 VFW of Belmont met Monday at 8 a.m. at Town Hall. The veterans visited eight sites around Belmont to conduct brief ceremonies to remember veterans.…
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