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Youth & Teens

Belmont Skaters Shine at Theatre On Ice Competitions

May 23, 2026
Theatre On Ice is growing across the United States, and Belmont is well-represented as the figure skating discipline surges. Ten Belmont youth competed in Theatre On Ice at the biennial Nations Cup last month in East Lansing, Michigan, with their Skating Club…

Belmont Chess Camp Unites Community and Competition

May 9, 2026
In the Beech Street Center, kids of all ages eagerly go head-to-head in games of chess as part of a program founded by Belmont students designed to connect the town’s youngest players to the game — and to each other. In 2024,…

Generations: The Optimism of a Quiet Spring Morning

April 23, 2026
Here is a usual kind of spring: in my yard, where all the good soil has disappeared, where nothing grows out of what’s left, where hoping that October bulbs will rise in May is just looking for heartache, here in this yard,…

Student Led Walkout Joins National Protest of ICE

February 9, 2026
On the second-to-last day of January, a parade of Belmont High School students snaked along Concord Avenue, under the train tracks and up the hill to Town Hall. An observer’s guess put the number above 300 total. They had walked out of…

Local Teens Organize Toy Drive, Gift Wrapping Event

December 16, 2025
In just a few weeks, a local group of teens managed to collect more than 250 toys for a toy drive they conceived and carried out. “It’s so fun to watch kids plan and get excited about doing good and doing events…
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Entrepreneurial Belmont Youth Building and Selling Bears

December 10, 2025
Move over, Build-A-Bear Workshop, because Belmont resident Hillary Hoffman created a new plush bear with hometown roots. Just in time for the holidays, the 13-year-old Belmont Middle School student released Toby, the first bear in what the young entrepreneur envisions as a…
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