A revised employment contract, negotiated in a swift move to retain her as town administrator, offers Patrice Garvin an increase of roughly $8,500 to her base pay. Select Board members who approved the revised contract Wednesday evening said the amended compensation package…

The Belmont Public Schools hired Darnell Williams as the district’s new diversity, equity, inclusion and wellbeing director. In early February, the district announced it was in the final stages of hiring a replacement for Chon’tel Washington, the district’s first director of diversity,…

After four hours of discussion, Town Meeting members approved amendments to the accessory dwelling unit bylaw, officially bringing the town into compliance with a new state law. That law, signed by Gov. Maura Healey in August as part of the $5.1 billion…