hello everyone welcome to the bell my journal belmont own program for hyper local news and community programming i'm your host brother called and the belmont farmer's market open for another year on june seventh through the farmer's market belmont residence and others can buy locally grown produce and other food in the claflin parking lot right behind leonard street the farmer's market is open on thursday afternoons through six o'clock for the past thirty five years the youngest kids in the belmont schools had begun their musical journey under the tutelage of john mcclellan with mr mcclellan's decision to retire this year the staff of the tran ari the parents of students and the students themselves both current and former organized the show to give him a farewell this is completely exaggerated to welcome to this week in the belmont citizen hero we have with today joanna jubilance who is the senior multimedia journalist for the citizen herald let's start out with the community p senator brown's burger is weighing in yeah he's got good advice for the town it seems definitely he's working very closely with the community path implementation advisory committee to help get funding for the design and what he's done is he's helped arrange meetings with mascot the massachusetts department of transportation there's a very important meeting coming up in june twenty eighth it's a pretty project review meeting and belmont is going to be at that meeting we hope it really looks like they're going to be at that meeting and it's a very important step to getting funding because if we're approved at this pre processed review meeting then we move on to the project review meeting which is july nineteenth and then we're really on our way to getting funding we could potentially have funding in place and actually have a design in progress by the summer of next year and what senator brownsburg is suggesting is that the town split everything up suggestion yeah because it's a very you know it's a complicated real implicated here and you said let's focus on the part of the route that connects alexander and concord avenues with that underpass which everybody really wants to get done because that will really benefit the high school project it will benefit to help mitigate traffic in the area so he's like let's focus on that part of the route and the brighton street part of the route first and then you know phase two could be the west part of it which has more complexities because it crosses over the river and tracks a number of times four times four times right but you know maybe with the funding in place and a designer working with the town we can we can to another part of state government yeah open or state local government open meetings violation it's there is been an issue of controversy evidently in belmont over the last year there has been the belmont a school barn project there was a complaint filed by belmont resident tim duncan about the handling of that application by the planning board so he sent a complaint to the tourney general the attorney general reviewed the complaint reviewed and she looked at tapes of the meetings she talked to people about you know everything that transpired and she determined that there was an open meeting law violation by former member of the plan in the violation wasn't the gathering of people but it was the circulation right printed materials at a time yes that is that is what they found the violation to be there were two incidents where there was one that was the draft decision for the project and that was circulated among the members of the board and the planning board director before the public hearing on august thirteenth and it wasn't available to the public that was any written communication has to be posted publicly if you're going to do anything like that they really advise against it and they advise against having working groups as well they said you know you can have working groups but we really advise against it and any written communication so town council george hall sent out a memo you know outlining and reviewing the open meeting law with all the boards and committees in town and i think he's going to be maybe doing some training to just get people to understand and not violate it and we have a few seconds let's talk about after school yes after school care crisis is now not as much of a crisis anymore they've come up with a short term solution they found space in four of the schools so that people who are on waiting lists may get spots in the fall which is really exciting and they're also going to line the registration process so that if you're a new family you can determine what afterschool program to apply to because you'll know what school you're going to so you will know in early in the process what school you're going right to and so you can apply to the afterschool program in that school yes i think that's great news especially a fact that they found more capacity and superintendent failon came through with  word he did that's great well thank you we've been talking with joanna juve less who is the senior multimedia journalist for the belmont citizen herald and you can breed more about these stories and others in this waiter behind the bar started making cocktails for them and of course when they willing to start opening up they asked me to be the head cocktail boy over here so that's what i did i came up with a nice short meet a cocktail list all every single difference and it's a hundred percent worth it my mix elegy beginnings if you want to call it that i started with shirley temples and honestly i was in love with everything like kool aid and it sounds ten fifteen twenty years later doing the same exact thing but i'm doing it with libations now where we're having one more fun it's just an exploration of flavor this is kind of my ongoing you doesn't feel good work to me less that's all you can ask for really welcome to this week in the belmont tourney and i have with me today franklin tucker who is the editor and publisher of the belmont tony and  resident and developer is stefano and he is going to be a building on two sites that he has two parcels and those are very familiar with people who are around belmont in waverly square and that is the waverly insurance company building and the building that's also next to it what he wants to build is three storey buildings retail on the first floor and residential in the other two on the second or third floor it's about forty feet it's about forty feet high in height and it's a and it's a it's a good size but not really massive with parking in the back my impression is that what's being proposed in tell me if i'm wrong is exactly what people have been talking about for years for about four waverley square next to the train station next to the best station mix of retail and and residential i think everybody has been talking about in the past is is that something has to be square is one of our three business centers and it's the quietest of the three and anything that would bring people into that area is important no one reason of course is to help preserve the m b t a station that we really square one of the reasons they tried to close that station was because there was a just a limited number of people who are you were taking advantage of that stop when you bring people when you bring businesses you're going to bring activity and that could help the line there what many residential however we've their community the town has been concerned about the increase in school population how does one reconcile building a new residential with concerns about bedrooms so it's going to be really geared towards maybe empty nesters but i don't think there's going to be very small also looks like it's going to be for people who are just getting started in their lives and people will move into these units hop on the train hop on the bus you can get to harvard square you can get to north station if you're commuting downtown one of the great things about where we square is that you're the hub of two community links one of course is the commuter going through the process of course is it because it is an n l b one commercial businesses own it will need a special permit both of these projects will need special permits to be built to get their building permit i mean he's definitely went in april focused on these developments so it sounds like this is really a win for ballmer it does and while we never know about if there's going to be opposition we never know about that but i also think it also is what the stefano said in his remarks to the town when he was presenting this he said that not only will it enhance the appearance of a risk where but these developments hopefully will encourage further redevelopment along trip of a record or to complete an exciting revitalization of that site for a number of years yes ok speaking let's close the door on that and speaking of wins in belmont belmont rugby teams are on an incredible winning streak there are not  only incredible ones for it but they're going to do something that you hardly ever see and that is you'll see both the boys and girls on state finals for the state championship which will happen on saturday the twenty third june at south high school really close to be there and they really they've been undefeated this year the boys have really dominated most of their games they will meet boston college high school their rival who they lost to  believe three years ago in the state final four club high school teams now this is an official high school team girls of course are undefeated they have are trying to defend their state championship from last year and they're going to meet lincoln s ury who they had a really tough time the last two meetings with them so it's going to be a great grudge match among the girls that's great you frank we have been speaking with franklin tucker the editor and publisher of the belmont  in other sports news that my high school baseball team won the league championship this year but got out early in the state tournaments the belmont high ball to last in ten any to the arlington another break in pitch high fly ball deep to right pollock is tracking it can't come up with it up against the fence that'll play one for arlington or one and swinging is good you it's a ground ball through the gap that's going to play you'll make the catch that's the ball game ladies and gentlemen arlington wins it five to four coming wednesday the pace and park music festival will begin another season of performances every wednesday evening beginning at six o'clock there are family friendly concerts that people can attend tommy olson founder and organizer and coordinator of the payson park music festival tells us more about the festival  music festival started twenty eight seasons ago we're very proud of our longevity it built up to being every wednesday from the second the third wednesday in june to the end of august so it's every wednesday we also have on the in the month of july we have for children's concerts we call them kiddy concerts right here or if it rains over at the blue but we have a beatles tribute we have a rock band we have as people heard the love dogs it's so it's a whole different we don't genre it's who is a good band in and boston that would like to play here and oddly enough people like to play here so that's that's good for us it's always fre park music festival it's funded by the sponsors of each concert what sponsor gets is the opportunity to put up a banner to introduce the band and also a link on our website underneath the concert they're sponsoring this was specifically done to make it more of a democratic way not one person own the festival so it will always be free  family friendly one thing that i wanted to mention is it's going to be even friendlier because stonehearth pizza will be selling pizzas here on the park and we're trying not to have too many tents we don't want we want this to retain a norman rockwell appearance so that's about it i hope come enjoy this a nice this is a one final thing this is the coolest place in town on a hot summer day because of the g geography so don't be afraid if it's a hot day it'll be cooler down here i don't want to forget my friend mary bradley who had this great idea of bringing belmont porch best so here is a little buttons that the children can get because we're going to have mary sat up over near the kiddie playground front porches and people can see on the website where people are going and can walk around meet their neighbors and hear some good music and see some good performances so we're really excited and i'm so glad we're working with tommy on the belmont media centers again peters to tell us about what there is to do in belmont in the coming week hi everybody i'm jane and this is your community calendar for this week in two thousand and one brendan grant was playing left field for the belmont senior babe ruth team at when he collided with a teammate and sustained fatal injuries from the accident this sunday brandon's home run five k honors his legacy and a walk in race starting at the b h s track at nine thirty for the charity walk ten am for the race and ten o five for the youth races on site entry for the race is thirty dollars youth races are free learn more at brandon's home run dot org loneliness among seniors is increasingly common and can lead to depression and other health issues after a brief talk the street members welcome a group to discuss and share ideas on how to handle this life situation attend this group on tuesday at two fifteen the belmont gallery of art presents take five plus two in its summer show from june fifteenth through august fifteenth the show features work by five members of the b g is board of directors together with two guests artists feel they display any time during normal gallery hours and attend the opening reception for the show on thursday from six thirty to eight thirty visit the library for the kickoff of the library's rock summer reading program with the sixties and seventies themed extravaganza there will be trivia crafts snack and a groovy photo booth so put on your best bell bottoms and most righteous shades the party starts at six on friday internationally acclaimed elvis impersonator mike slater has performed sold out shows that venue throughout the country praised by the providence journal as the best elvis impersonator in new england the third best in the country you can watch him perform at studio cinema on sunday from three to five pm the citizens police academy has wrapped but an opportunity for teens ages twelve through sixteen is open to join the junior police academy taking place from august sixth through seventeenth the academy will teach defensive tactics motor vehicle laws and car stops drug id and investigation social media safety and more you can register through the recreation department website belmont world film wraps up its justice for all series on monday the twenty fifth with a season in france in it a widower and his two young children flee their war torn african country for france where he falls in love with a french woman until immigration officials come knocking in honor of world refugee day on june twentieth partial proceeds from the premiere will benefit the refugee and immigrant assistance center which provides services such as refugee resettlement asylum case management counseling outreach and education to immigrants and refugees in greater boston purchase or tickets on belmont world film dot org and that's it for this week if you like your event featured in belmont journal's community calendar you can e mail your event info to jane at belmont media dot org now that's it for this week's edition of the belmont journal as we sign off let's watch what else is available on belmont's community programming t v stations in the coming week thanks for watching i'm your host roger cult and i'll see you next time