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TownieTalk Exclusive: Select Board and Town Administrator power grab implodes
Power Grab by Select Board and Town Administrator blows up in faces Sources close to TownieTalk can confirm the Town no longer has an Independent

Library needs Ozempic, School scandal, Tasers
Override Scandal evidence builds… As first reported here at Townie Talk, the January McKibben report indicated a further student enrollment decline expected over the next

Calm Before the Storm
D-Day June 06, 1944… The beginning of the end for the Nazi’s and a lifelong reminder of what American exceptionalism once was. Very few remain
Local News

Planning Board’s Ongoing Blatant Violations of Process and Neighbors rights
The Belmont Planning Board last night continued what’s become an ongoing charade, a travesty of due process, in its first “public meeting” on the Belmont

Belmont Center Zoning Raises Alarms About Processes and Impacts
This letter is from a group of concerned citizens sent to Belmont Briefing about the push to rezone Belmont Center… The Belmont zoning process being

Cowardly Lion, Override, Mike Crowley
New Mascot for Town Meeting members… In what history will show as cowardly surrender, 213 Town Meeting members voted to accept the unfunded and likely
State / National News

House Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic Submits Final Report
On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, at 10:30am, the Select Subcommittee submitted a “Lessons Learned and a Path Forward” on the COVID-19 PANDEMIC. The full, 520-page
Democrats approve a platform that mentions Biden’s ‘second term’ despite his making way for Harris
Link to AP story here: Last night, Democrat delegates unanimously approved the 2024 party platform. The problem was, nobody edited it since early July, before

Changing Hearts
by Len AbramBelmont Resident, Boston Broadside Columnist FROM OUR PRINTED MARCH 2024 EDITION In songs and common speech, the heart isn’t just what keeps us