Belmont's Sports Complex rink has reopened after the dehumidification problems that closed it in recent weeks, Town Administrator Patrice Garvin told the Select Board Aug. 10, though a permanent fix is still being worked out with the Building Committee. Garvin also said the town's new f…
Belmont Public Library postponed its Classic Groove Band kiddie concert to Thursday, Aug. 20, at 6 p.m., town officials said. The rescheduled show lands in the middle of a busy civic calendar, with early voting for the Sept. 1 State Primary running five days at Town Hall between Aug. 22…
Belmont recorded 15 property sales between July 17 and Aug. 15, with 12 of those deeds listing a price. Prices ranged from $161,000 to $2,225,000, with a median of $1,135,000, and nine of the 12 recorded sales topped $1 million. The period's top sale was 100 Village Hill Rd, which sold for
Firebox Pottery Studio is transforming Belmont's former Media Center building into a 3,800-square-foot ceramics studio opening this fall. The new business, first reported by Hoodline, will offer classes at the site once used as the town's community media hub. Separately, Belmont Town Ha…
Massachusetts health regulators ordered an emergency restriction on kratom sales this week, a move touching store shelves statewide including Belmont. The order, reported by Patch, cites Mayo Clinic warnings that the herbal supplement is unsafe and ineffective, and takes effect for reta…
Belmont Municipal Light Board weighed a major rate-methodology overhaul and battery-storage pilot projects but took no formal vote on either.
Belmont's light board directed continued analysis of cost-of-service rate methodology and battery storage options.
Belmont's Community Path project moves closer to construction as the town closes its final land deals, Belmont Patch reports today. Patch's Thursday digest detailed how completing the last outstanding land acquisitions for the long-planned path could reshape the project's construction t…
Belmont's town moderator interviewed six committee applicants ahead of August appointments.
Belmont School Committee ratifies a new contract with the Belmont Education Association after 19 months of negotiations. The agreement caps more than a year and a half of bargaining, collaboration and mediation between the district and its teachers. Separately, the Belmont Health Depart…