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Belmont High Grad Coaches Newton North Boys Soccer to Unlikely State Title

December 8, 2024

As captain of the Belmont High School soccer team in the early 2000s, Roy Dow emulated then-coach John Loosmann’s confidence. Little did he know that affinity for his high school coach would underscore the best story in Massachusetts high school sports more…

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Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence to Host First Winter Celebration in Belmont

December 6, 2024

A Massachusetts-based agency is hosting its first winter holiday celebration next month, and the community is invited. The Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, known as ATASK, has been around in Massachusetts for more than 30 years, according to Director of Development…

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Thanksgiving Football in Pictures

December 6, 2024

Belmont and Watertown met on Thanksgiving, renewing a rivalry game first played in 1921. This year, the game returned to Harris Field for the first time in a while. Both teams are rebuilding this year. Belmont came into the game 2-8, Watertown,…

News

‘Fixit’ Clinics: Repairing Devices and Strengthening Communities

December 6, 2024

Peter Mui has organized almost 1,300 “fixit clinics” around the nation, opening up spaces for community members to gather around their broken devices and build relationships through the repair process. Mui brought the fixit clinic to Belmont’s Beech Street Center on Nov.…

Shoppers browse some of the items for sale at the Social Action Holiday Fair in 2022. The Fair returns Dec. 8. (Sara Oaklander/Courtesy Photo)

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First Church in Belmont Returns with Annual Social Action Holiday Fair

December 5, 2024

First started in 2009, the Social Action Holiday Fair at The First Church in Belmont, Unitarian Universalist celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. The fair, which started with the idea of “providing holiday shoppers with an opportunity to have a greater impact…

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Owls in Belmont Victims of Rodent Poison

December 5, 2024

On Nov. 5, visitors to the Habitat Audubon site in Belmont noticed a great horned owl perched on a log. The raptor appeared lethargic and eventually fell from its low perch. The bird was taken to an emergency hospital in Grafton, where…

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Giving Back: Students Create Mentorship Program for Dyslexic Students

December 5, 2024

Belmont resident Joe Looney was in third grade when he was diagnosed with dyslexia. At the time, he didn’t know what that meant. What he remembers, however, is leaving his classroom throughout the day at Winn Brook Elementary School to meet with…

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Marauders of the Week for Dec. 6

December 4, 2024

Aditya Tilak 1. Favorite school subject: Math and Economics 2. Most influential classes / teachers Mr. Sullivan for Learning Center, Mr. Moresco for Calculus, Ms. Weathers for Biology and Physics, Ms. Rafia for Pre-Calculus, Mr. Goldfine for Business-Economics and Ms. Junker for…

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Residents Raise Concern Over Town Field Conditions

December 4, 2024

Some of Belmont’s outdoor playing fields are shopworn and threadbare, desperately in need of a few months free of enthusiastic use. The problem with Belmont’s playing fields has multiple facets. Some fields — those used primarily by recreational sports — are in…

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Donation Fund to Be ‘First Step of Many’ Addressing Tax Relief for Seniors

December 4, 2024

Next week, Town Meeting will be asked to consider “the first step of many” in the realm of addressing senior tax relief options for Belmont residents. That step will be to approve Article 9 of the Nov. 18 special Town Meeting warrant,…

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Obituary: Eli Whittaker Martin

Eli Whittaker Martin, an environmental scientist and ardent naturalist, passed…

Obituary: Edward Barry Doctoroff

Edward (Eddie) Barry Doctoroff, 76, passed away July 23 at…

Obituary: George B. Benedek

George B. Benedek, 97, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather,…

Obituary: Anne (Covino) Goldenberg

Anne Covino Goldenberg, 100, a longtime resident of Belmont, passed…

Obituary: Celeste Matilda Andrade

Celeste Matilda Andrade, 81, a longtime resident of Belmont and…

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Battle For The Road Over Bike Lane Changes

July 8, 2023

by Kevin Sullivan

On Monday night, the Belmont Select Board will consider two changes along Concord Avenue that some residents say are pitting seniors against cyclists. (See below for a link to the agenda.) The proposed changes could alter the protected bike lane created last summer.…

News

New Multi-Family Zoning Requirement Coming To Belmont

June 16, 2023

by Kevin Sullivan

On Wednesday, June 21st at 7 pm at the Beech Street Center, and via Zoom (preregistration is required for Zoom), the Town of Belmont is inviting members of the community to weigh in on a new state law that will increase multi-family…

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