watch and listen to the talking news every day at twelve noon and six pm on channel ninety six comcast six finity and channel thirty verizon fi o's he could also be heard mondays and tuesdays at four thirty just search for the belmont media podcast network and now on to the talking news mccauley the voice of belmont retirees by joanna k savella says the man known as the voice of belmont for his reverse nine one one messages alerted residents to pocking ban and school cancellations during snow emergencies belmont police nine eleven operations manager dan mccauley officially retired on may twenty ninth his fifty eighth birthday the town celebrated his nearly thirty six years of service with a reception in his on or at town hall macaulay who was born and raised in belmont and raised his his own family in b began his career in public safety in one nine hundred eighty two when he was hired as a police dispatcher in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven he became a fire alarm operator after the merger of police and operations manager in two thousand and six and has been a long time member of the belmont police auxilary he will retain his status as a special police officer in belmont during the reception assistant police chief james mc isaac surprised the crowd gathering within the selectmen is meeting room when he said there was a no known smoot from the belmont from belmont control he put his portable radio on speaker and everyone  listened to the communications supervisor it would pendergast instruct all units and companies to stand by for a special announcement today i have the honor of a known sing the retirement of daniel  macaulay nine eleven operations manager for the town of belmont jan retires at the end of this tour today following nearly thirty six years of dedicated service to his hometown and known to many as the voice of belmont it has been dan's mission to serve the townspeople protect his police officers and firefighters and to make belmont a better and safer place speaking for all of us your brothers and sisters din you have completed your mission with great distinction thank you for your many years of service and countless i was of god work we all wish you a long happy and healthy retirement danny you deserve nothing but the best said pendergast choking back tears macaulay said it's been a great thirty six years as i i'll still be around i promise i'm not going anywhere it's been a great ride he said macauley visit vividly remembers the events of april nineteenth two thousand and thirteen when belmont and much of the boston area was in a lockdown do the manhunt for the boston marathon bombing suspects he lived on school street at the time and said he heard the gunfire about one mile away i thought i was hearing fireworks and all of a sudden my phone rang and one of the on the other end said boss you better get into work right now it's crazy in the ice i said what's going on they said there's a bombing in watertown a shooting and all of a sudden i put two and two together and realized what i was hearing said macauley one of the more memorable incidences was also when he was a fire alarm operator and received a call from the manager of friendlies in cushing square saying his restaurant at a small fire macaulay said his friends sometimes tease him that dispatches don't do much all day long but some days that coal that you take is a person taking their last breath in the thirty five years i've done this probably talk to well over a dozen people on the telephone who was the last person they have a talk to to me because they were the they were having medical emergency he said we don't get to see the end results we get to hear it on the phone until the police and firefighters get there we don't really get closure on that him and the people on scene do sometimes that can be difficult he said police and fire chiefs include the dispatches in post traumatic stress debriefing six years ago that didn't happen he said  thank you bob remembering belmont veterans killed in action by divan a case of dallas belmont remembered its veterans in many ways before and on memorial day with ceremonies at three of the schools on may twenty fifth plus the parade from christian square to belmont high school in a ceremony at belmont cemetery on may twenty eighth despite the cool damp weather residents of all ages participated in observed the parade with ceremony that iran's service officer robert it upton read the names of one hundred nineteen belmont residents who were killed in action in the civil war world war one world war two korean war vietnam war and the war on terror there are six hundred veterans residing in belmont and approximately two thousand buried in belmont according to upton the belmont high school marching band and chant every middle school band members entertained the crowd as they played girl scouts from service unit three thirteen laid flowers on veterans graves and david cohen tar and sean canavan members of the boy scout troop three zero four raised the american flag during the ceremony at belmont cemetery the troops wrote together and on a colorful float on a truck and trailer donated by twenty trucking owner michael crap pulley they built the floral the float last year at the town department of public works yard using donated products from ideal fence coolidge hardware and winter's hardware according to troop leader aaron libyan troop members also placed flags on all that aaron's graves belmont another highlight of the memorial day ceremony in belmont was state representative david raj is reading a proclamation in honor of memorial day to the town of belmont from governor charlie baker so liked men chairman adam dash his speech reminded everyone the one hundredth anniversary of world war one is coming this fall and to remember that ends of that war rest in peace so we can live in peace it is up to us who are living right now to create that utopia dreamt of a century ago by soldiers trapped in trenches here upon year sustains peace would be the ultimate gift to those soldiers of your who made the ultimate sacrifice we are up to the task if we simply want to make it happen he said belmont's commander of the v f w and american legion go day so memorial day is all about represented all those who paid the ultimate price for the freedoms we enjoy daily and take for granted now lane all a good member of the belmont public library board of trustees and chief of the boston v a library services was the featured guest speaker during the ceremony sharing stories of sacrifice pain and trauma of two veteran patients she came to know  work they each have a journey and it's a unique journey sometimes it's a very bumpy and compelling journey it's instructive in complicated she said you know over to max thank you cl teacup a commentary by maureen king it's a sunny morning in may and ninety five year old world war two veteran philip natalie is at his usual post the sign over the doorway reads as time goes by his favorite song natalie was in casablanca during the war and a plethora of other places his life is chock full of fascinating stories today he's telling them from behind the counter of his daughter crushing square antique store natalie's memories flourish in a sea of eight by tens filling the wall behind him names and faces call out from the black and white images mackley is only too happy to introduce them he points to amelia earhart flanked by a line of children in boston southend the famous flyer is working as a dedicated social worker in natalie's old neighborhood a twelve year old natalie wears a cap in the back by the light post peeking over a shoulder in the photo just below he's huddling with his army buddies newly home from war he remembers drinking a quart of milk in a minute as soon as he returned home soil stories from world war two filled shop trimmed in teacups in oil paintings they run a route through casablanca liverpool and southampton natalie stops long enough outside london to win an army welterweight fight in one minute and ten seconds serving with the one hundred first airborne attached to the eighty second airborne he's at omaha beach and the belgian bulge he's mining bridges taking out pill boxes and constructing airfields when a furlough comes through he's chatting with john steinbeck on the beach in nice he solemn really recalls being sixteen and bowling with friends next to boston's metropolitan theatre when they hear fire engines roaring to the coconut grove fire with a sea of oil paintings wrapped around him negli adds a pinch of irony to his life six like ticks do with his attendance as an artist and sculptor at the vesper george school of art on boston's same boat street today the great great grandfather of five born on easter sunday shares the shop with good friend and vietnam veteran frank healy with two pieces of fresh fruit beside him a case of fancy filigree spoons before him actually   at his post behind the counter or on a bench outside a miss on always in the mood for telling a good story and this world war two veteran has a few over to you bob transformational vision for the green line by senator william brown's burger m b t a engineers have developed a transformational vision for the green line even more exciting they have set in motion a convincing program for attaining that vision the central idea here is to mitigate towards a new vehicle that typed in the type ten will be fifty percent longer one hundred twelve feet as opposed to seventy four and have room for twice as many people the existing green line vehicles lose a lot of internal space due to the antiquated through axle design of the undercarriage the type ten vehicle will be one hundred percent low floor excess simple and free up essential of the whole floor plan of the coffers seats and standing room once a turns ition to the new vehicles  complete the line could carry roughly the same number of to train that with twice as many people on each train any writer of the green line can tell you that the existing cars are often too full to take all the waiting passengers and it appears that many potential riders have simply given up on the experience the core capacity study indicated that demand will only continue to grow the possible doubling of capacity can be ramped up in stages as demand growth is confirmed the t's engineers have carefully vetted the new vision they have laser leisure laser measured the tunnels to determine exactly where the lodge of vehicles might be too big to fit they also have analyzed the new power and structural requirements for the new vehicles they have created an inventory of barriers to the new needs repair or replacement anyway that making the changes needed for the new vehicles adds little incremental cost the already planned transition to a new phase system for also facilitates the longer vehicles the automated system will not require passenger interaction with the front position to train operator so all doors can open the t will be conducting a nationwide search to recruit a leader for the green line transformation and the t s board has already approved a contract with an outside firm to provide capacity to manage all green line projects so they may support the new vision over the next five years riders will see incremental speed improvements from top consolidation from from stop consolidation already planned in front of be you on the b line the new fair collection system which will reduce will you do should well times transit signal priority which is rolling along commonwealth avenue and beacon street additionally the ongoing replacement of tracks signal and paul will components will contribute to reduced breakdowns and no one to clear thank you bo barrels for sale to residents this is the seventh year sustainable belmont has chosen to work with the great american ring barrel company a local food importing company that has been repurpose in shipping drums into belmont deadline for purchase is june seventeenth at midnight it is that time of year again to start thinking about water conservation and saving rainwater amanda mo sustainable belmont said rainfall is hard to gauge harvesting rainwater with a rain barrel can mitigate the irregular pattern of rainfall once again this year belmont is offering residents the opportunity to buy discounted rain barrels throughout new england residents depend on infrastructure made in the years following world war two to supply water to far fewer homes these infrastructures are now heavily taxed leaky pipes and water main breaks are only part of the problem storm water runoff creates additional havoc capturing in story in water at the home and the use of rain barrels  are two effective ways to minimize storm water runoff each year homeowners face higher prices for water and sewer the wholesale rate of water from the m w ari has increased forty nine percent over the ten year period from two thousand and eight to two thousand and eighteen saving rainwater helps home on his head shake hands the rising cost of water rainwater is a free healthy alternative it is organic has no chlorine no fluoride and no chemicals it is an excellent water source for plants gardens lawns and any non potable use regularly use of a rain barrel cam pay for itself in one season one tenth of an inch of rain on a one thousand square foot roofs about twenty five minutes of moderate rainfall will fill a sixty gallon barrel new england reseize seventeen inches of rain during the growing seizing from may through september this provides enough water to fill one hundred seventy rain barrels and two cents a gallon homeowners can expect to collect two hundred four dollars worth of water droughts stressed residents so landscaping and town water facilities in two thousand and sixteen one hundred sixty eight communities in massachusetts faced restrictions on non essential outdoor water use forty seven percent of the cities and towns in the state there is no restriction on rainwater use amanda mujic hall now here's max thanks claire benefits of later school start times presented to committee by christy armstrong professor judith owens director of sleep medicine at boston children's hospital and an internationally recognized authority on sleep health and education in children gave a presentation to the belmont school committee on the impact of school start times on student health and performance she detailed some of the misconceptions surrounding sleep and school start times for adolescence including the myth that teens can make up for lost sleep by sleeping late on the weekends or the teens can get by on six or seven hours of sleep a night owen said adolescents are biologically programmed to wake at eight am or later and because of the shift in their circadian rhythm it is difficult for the average teen to fall asleep earlier than eleven pm on a regular basis with current school start times seven thirty five am at belmont high school and seven fifty five am at chinnery middle school students are required to be awake and functioning during their lowest level of alertness at all when this critically impacts their ability to learn and retain information and their academic performance as well as affecting attention emotional regulation and risk taking behaviors owens noted we are asking teenagers to get up and perform that at the best at the very time when their brains are telling them to be fast asleep she said owens also detail the health effects of sleep deprivation including obesity accidental injuries lower use of seat belts increased texting and driving and drinking and driving depression and suicidal thoughts and alcohol and substance abuse what do we worry about with teens risk taking behavior she  said owens emphasized that one of the most consistent and compelling findings in delaying school start times for teenagers is a decrease in the incidence of depression which is a health epidemic among elf adolescents in addition to academic performance and health and safety improvements studies have shown that moving school start times of one hour later has the potential for substantial economic gains owen said improved academic performance leads to increased lifetime earning potential of students and the reduced incidence of car crashes also has major economic impact with message choose it's having the potential to see one of the highest cost benefit ratios in the nation according to owens school committee members discussed with owens the value of potentially shifting the b h as start time by half an hour given that we will be building a new high school and the grade configurations will change do you think it's worth going to eight am as an interim measure asked andrea pressed which always responded that a thirty minute delay in start times results in improvements for students but not to expect dramatic changes belmont resident tate rodrigo's clarke asked the committee not to wait to see if the start times and encourage focus on head sleep health education we really have to get lack of sleep up there with smoking as risky behavior she sa hundred seventy eight it is his ought to see through the annals of belmont baseball continued until his passing in two thousand and fifteen coaching style is remembered fondly by former player one of them brian keegan no one n b a executive attributes his passion for the game to his little league coach he always made his entire eighteen feel like everyone is important everything every becoming the belmont youth baseball association even after his sons aged out of eligibility dear khazarian stayed on the b y b a board offering advice and priceless historical perspective to ensure that his succeeded in its mission of serving youth in belmont in his capacity he was able to watch some impressive baseball talent develop one of the talented players he watched with pleasure was brendan grant who rose through the town's baseball divisions to become a star at belmont high school when grant was fatally injured in a no field collusion during a senior babe ruth game in june of two thousand and one because era and knew that he had to be part of an effort to memorialize such a talented player and promising young man dirk azeri and became a trustee memorial field but as if it's did not stop there because erie and also contributed his wisdom to the foundation's chief fund raising tool brandon's home run held every father's day since two thousand and two it was his suggestion that cash awards be offered to the top male and female finishes in order to ensure that a steady stream of championship caliber athletes would come to belmont each june then dirck azeri and stepped up and contributed his financial support to one doll the newly created prize struck show supporting in the most meaningful way possible the foundation's effort to fifteen the der khazarian family foundation has chosen to increase its generosity to the foundation this year becoming the event's chief sponsor and over the cl may twenty second regarding the no on renewal of belmont high school english teacher rose rowe roseanne barr contract bar she has been a teacher at belmont high for the past two years with a one year contract for each year she told the citizen herald she was informed by the head of the english department lindsay rind or an assistant principal tom brow at the end of the school day on april thirteenth that her contract would not be renewed for the two thousand and eighteen nineteen academic year and was not given a reason why bosh was the keynote speaker at the national honor society induction this year and was nominated as the favorite of the year for the b h s class of two thousand and eighteen year book in january she traveled to new york with a group of model the u n students for the columbia model u conference and exhibition in the standing room only meeting at the china ri middle school more than fifty students and parents showed their support for a teacher who according to petition co organize h s senior hayley brown is the epitome of what it teaches should be passionate knowledgeable creative kind and talented belmont high school is likely to have such an engaging teacher who truly cares about the academic and socio and motional well be an obvious students we hope that with this petition the belmont school committee will reconsider and override this decision brown said in the petition which has been signed by seven hundred twenty three people around speech about bosch was followed by a lengthy standing ovation from the audience now his max thanks claire belmont drives electric hosts ride and drive event a recent belmont drives electric ride and drive event was held at the cherry middle school where a number of electric vehicle owners and interested residents taking test test  learning about the benefits and affordability of driving electric belmont drives electrics next event will be held wonder four pm june twenty fourth at cherry middle school those interested are invited to come view and test drive evey's including the tesla model three and the chevrolet bolt and volt sponsored by belmont light in partnership with sustainable belmont belmont energy committee and residents of belmont belmont drive electric is a local initiative designed to highlight the benefits of driving electric vehicles and connect elmont residents to rebates incentives and free test drives back to you bob along with my colleagues claire and ma we thank you for listening to the talking news and hope you've enjoyed the show we were return next week for another edition of local news happening around belmont