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Reading Greg Levinsky’s story about the Kellehers brought back a flood of memories. Once upon a time, my wife and I bought a two-family home on Elm Street in Belmont. I had commuted from Brooklyn for several years during the late 1980s,…

Just an hour or two after the ribbon-cutting at our stunning new library, people went from being event guests to library patrons. It was wonderful to see young kids carrying books from the Children’s Room right away. Older kids had settled into…

In Belmont, the high school auditorium is fundamentally a school facility—taxpayer-funded and designed primarily for student education and extracurricular activity. So I was completely astonished by the Select Board’s reaction to the School Department’s rightful protection of the annual spring musical’s essential…

This spring, I attended a presentation on increasing the commercial tax base, specifically by improving Belmont Center through rezoning. The audience was interested in improving the Belmont Center as a diverse and vibrant commercial enterprise. It became clearer that part of the…

Belmont is facing serious fiscal constraints, proposals for recurring overrides, as well as significant needs on the town side of the budget. It is shocking to read that the Belmont Select Board would even consider support for allocating limited funds from certified…

It’s peak gardening time as summer winds down and yet again the long ait list for a garden plot at the Belmont Victory Gardens continues to grow. Eager residents yearn to grow their own food and flowers and be part of a…

Given the Select Board’s response to the July 23 special Town Meeting, it is fair to ask about the state of democracy here in Belmont.  Is democracy dead here? Not yet, but I worry it’s been gravely wounded by a board that…

Highland Meadow Cemetery is a sacred space where my daughter Jessica McKeen Johnson has been buried for 10 years. I have always kept fresh flowers in pots on her grave to honor her memory and to remember the joy that she brought…

A few weeks ago, the Belmont LGBTQ+ Alliance put up a banner that read: “Belmont welcomes immigrants, embraces our LGBTQ+ community, and endorses diversity, equity, and inclusion.” The banner was endorsed by nine community organizations, whose logos are displayed. It was a…

We were so happy to see the fantastic new playground at Town Field open a couple years ago. However, the point of entrance on Beech St, and in particular the point where pedestrians naturally cross to access that entrance, is incredibly perilous.…