watch and listen to the talking news every day twelve noon and six pm on channel ninety six comcast six finity and channel thirty verizon fi o's you can also be heard mondays and tuesdays at four thirty p room was standing room only monday night as residents from the neighborhood surrounding the town on land on the former incinerate a site waited for the discussion on results of a feasibility study on one of the final five uses being considered an anaerobic digester on november th selectmen approved spending eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars on a feasibility study for a commercial scale food waste and aerobics digestion facility at the concord avenue landfill site formally the town's incinerate a site the facility would accept organic materials and break them down without adding oxygen the process generates methane which is natural gas that is burned to generate electricity residue from the organic materials after being digested removed from the site for reuse an anaerobic digester is one of the remaining five post closure uses selectman are considering for the twenty five dollars plus acres of land which consist of two parcels of land formerly used to incinerate waste in belmont and currently used for public works materials storage the other uses are open space a bike can skate park a storage or a solar five and a hockey rink selectman adam dash that there is a need to make a decision on post closure use by may bruce haskell of langdon environmental consultant for belmont reviewed the results of the feasibility study for the area for an anaerobic digestion facility and according to ask will to be profitable the facility would need to receive two hundred dollars tons of waste daily he said he estimates the town would have twenty dollars to thirty dollars logs eighteen wheel trucks making forty dollars to sixty dollars trips daily to deliver and pick up from the site but tensional benefits would be a tax payment of about six hundred thousand dollars annually he said the town would also profit from a lease payment of about fifty thousand dollars an generated would be sold at zero dollars eleven cents per kilowatt hour based on the green rate belmont light has he said the town could also avoid tipping fees if curbside collection could be done the facility would be about thirty feet tall and require a permanent permitting from the message juices d e p local permitting from the conservation commission planning board and zoning board of appeals several residents including tag romney son of former presidential candidate a former massachusetts governor and junior senator from utah mitt romney spoke the digester i couldn't believe when i read this that a board of selectmen with pulsating brains would consider this for a location just think about the money maybe you want to look at a marijuana or him poor him up there would be all green it would be beautiful a big green feel he said amy ten and suggested the hockey rink would be a better option for the former incinerate a site and a better location than the current high school campus due to the amount of additional traffic pocking problems and accidents it would create into haskell said it would cost about twenty five thousand dollars to determine the type of foundation needed to support a hockey rink built on a barrel built on top of a wetlands and landfill skating rinks have little tolerance for a settlement he said he committed to try to find out if there was a company to conduct the test and provide an estimate for the foundation and were repro report back his findings to the select men at the february th meeting selectman vice chairman community development glen clancy if the town could conduct additional traffic studies football potential hockey rink sites the current location on the high school campus and the former incinerators site to determine the impact a ring and a half would have on traffic dash said that he hopes all will be all the information which he will they will need boring test results traffic study results to make an informed decision  t the final option for the former incinerator site at the march th meeting and i will declare thank you bob residents weigh in on the rink there are two sites in the town is considering for the new rink the high school campus or the former incinerator site on concord have by joanna case of alice belmont is preparing to send out a request for proposal for a public private partnership to rebuild the to cheerier rating skip big liberal zero skating rink located on the belmont high school campus west of harris field on concord out there are two sites to town is considering for the location of the new rink the high school campus or the former incinerator site on crocodile each potential site has pros and cons which were discussed at a community forum on january nd at the beach street center close to one hundred people attended the forum many were in favor of keeping the rink on the high school campus and rebuilding it through a public private partnership a few people including  for forty years who are against the public private partnership the existing rink was built in one thousand nine hundred and sixty eight or originally as a tennis facility according to director of community development colline clancy the major issues it has today is that it is not in compliance with the americans with disabilities act because the roof leaks there is lack of insulation and energy efficiency birds and other animals are able to gain entry and the building is not futile fully utilized if a new rink is rebuilt in the same location or in the vicinity there is the potential for the loss of field space left of harris currently used for junior varsity baseball and soccer games according to clancy residents weigh n n palsson expressed her concern about the amount of time a rink built with a public private partnership would be open she referred to a public private rink in minneapolis she visited it was a madhouse children were coming children were going children were playing people were standing around eating people were milling around it's a whole different concept when you have that kind of rink where there is a coffee shop where people can sit and wait their turn it's very very different from what you have now she said she said if the town does decide to enter into a public private partnership the town needs to tell the developer what they want including how late they want it open how many days it will open the town in the people in the town have to know exactly what are the parameters of a public private partnership she said a hockey parent sarah griffiths said she regularly picks up bird feces and nests when her children used the current rink and said she advocate the current location because of its walkability as rain nelson said she was concerned about the size of the project and starting a new construction project on the high school campus before the new school building is built it seems to be very ambitious for how small the site is she said nelson also questioned if the town would get to keep the user fees for town programs or if the use of fees would benefit the private computer said the user fees and who would benefit would have to be negotiated in the final r f p he also said the new facility would have to have enough square footage to create enough programming space to allow the developer to produce enough revenue to service the debt jay naughtie said she was worried about losing field space especially since two more grades are being added to the campus she said she is in favor of rebuilding the rink on the former incinerator site because it would free up field space on the high school campus she said due to the amount of equipment hockey players need they are often driven the community preservation act committee has approved six applications requesting a total of approximately two million six hundred thousand dollars to be voted on by town meeting this spring belmont police facade the application from the historic district commission and public works police building committee for seven hundred and eighty seven thousand five hundred and seventy five dollars to repair the exterior facade of the belmont police station roof windows stonework gutters trim paint  c was recently approved by the c p a committee clay pit pond preservation and restoration of vegetation the belmont conservation commission's application requesting twenty thousand dollars for preservation and restoration of vegetation surrounding the pond which will help manage non native and invasive plants and restore historic views of the pond has been approved rock meadow habitat pro preservation conservation commission's application requesting twenty five thousand four hundred dollars to control non native and invasive vegetation to help preserve valuable and unique grasslands and woodlands by reducing and eliminating noxious weeds has been approved community path design of phase one be the application from town administrator patrice garvin on behalf of the board of selectmen requesting one million dollars from the c p a committee to design phase one b of the community path project bright street to the to the clark street bridge creating a pedestrian and bicycle path that connects belmont center and the fitchburg cut off path on brighton street was approved town field playground restoration friends of town feel playground c p a application requesting seven hundred thousand dollars to update the existing playground with more modern accessible structures as well as the basketball and pickle ball courts which are in disrepair has been approved sixty thousand dollars for the design from the fiscal year two thousand and twenty budget and six hundred and forty thousand dollars for the construction from the f y two thousand and twenty one budget the requested seventy five thousand dollars to repair the slate roofs on the town hall the school administration building and the home are building to prevent water intrusion which could compromise structural timbers and horsehair plaster the application was approved over to you bob thank you max celebrating the chinese new year by joining a case of alice hundreds of residents from all different backgrounds gathered together general middle school roof for the annual chinese new year gala to celebrate the year of the pig on january th the event was sold out with approximately six hundred and fifty people in attendance there were two hundred performers forty vendors and a one hundred and fifty volunteers as the event is organized by the belmont chinese american association which was founded in two thousand and sixteen and has approximately one thousand chinese american belmont residents as member shape you on food vice president of b c a and director of the gala was pleased with the outcome of the of the event which more than two months to plan and implement ticket holders were able to enjoy a cultural festival inside the channel re cafeteria and performances in the auditorium which included dragon dancing peeking up or costumes traditional chinese instruments chinese food and next we have plenty to do a simple a celebration next year and we'll try to improve the overall experience more in particular in the performance stage effects and richer cultural demonstration varieties she said selectman chairman adam dash was one of the many town officials who attended the gala the chinese new year gallery  belmont is always one of the high points of the year the large turnout good food and incredible entertainment makes for a great time belmont is on it to have a vibrant chinese community and wish everyone a happy prosperous the gods zeus and your writing to me and companions to aphrodite also known as remus the goddess of love commonly referred to as the three graces the women represented  beauty charm nature creativity elegance splendor and fertility attributes that came to embody the ideal of feminine throughout history the influence of the three graces as icons  female beauty through the ages is easily seen through the dozens of artistic portrayals of the women including significant works by the early important paint often depicted as young women singing and dancing or lovingly encircled around each other so rounded by plants and flowers that three graces have also been captured more recently and sculptural works by th century female massachusetts august cynthia brody of lexington julie dapper of belmont and susan miri of arlington captures the essence of what the three graces in their characteristics represent a feminine ideals but it also moves well beyond it with over forty works displayed including photography sajjad cyano type collage painting and mixed media the  three graces takes a broader view of how women and what we think of as feminine including nature can be depicted powerful luminous and even for building these modern icons celebrate women struggle and desire to be seen as they really are the three the images in the three graces exhibit are strong individual powerful even sacred and yes beautiful while acknowledging that and nature and the layers of meaning in each piece but each artist has a clearly distinct style both in materials used and individual approach to arch making now over to ma for community meets bill modify principle candidates like you in a case of there are two finalists for the belmont high school principal position who were introduced to the community this week they were selected from a total of twenty three applicants according to director of human resources for belmont public schools mary patterson on january nd there was a public interview for isaac taylor the principal of north middlesex regional high school in townsend which has eight hundred and twelve students in grades one through twelve on january th all of bradford a principal apprentice at prospect hill academy a k through twelve school with one thousand one hundred and twenty five students was publicly interviewed following the public interviews parents were given a feedback questionnaire to complete about each candidate asking them about their favorable impressions less favorable impressions questions concerns and whether or not they believe the canned that it is a strong match for the community have mixed feelings about the candidate or feel it can that it is not a match for the community these feedback forms will be reviewed and considered by superintendent john feal and an assistant superintendent janice darius a olive branch for according to the director of human resources for belmont public schools mary peterson bradford holds a master's degree in english education from the teacher's college columbia university and a bachelor's degree in english an american literature and language from harvard college she anticipates earning a certificate certification in education in ministration from the lynch leadership academy a boston college in may bradford is an experienced educator who her career as an english teacher in two thousand and seven prior to becoming the principal apprentice for prospect hill academy she served as a department head at assistant principal about isaac taylor according to patterson taylor is experienced educator who began his career as an english and psychology teacher in two thousand and one he has served as a department head assistant principal and for the past four and a half years as the principal of north middlesex regional high school his tenure at north middlesex is involved coordinating the building and moving into a new school taylor has a master's degree in education leadership from harvard university graduate school of education a master's degree in education management from king's college london university of london teacher certification from canterbury christ church university college and a bachelor's degree from harvard university extension school taylor and bradford will have their final interviews with phailin and darius on january t president of arrested for fentanyl trafficking well belmont police detectives along with their fellow members of the suburban middle six county drug task force arrested twenty nine year old alba all f belmont detectives and members of the suburban middle sex county drug task force began to conduct surveillance in belmont after a lengthy investigation a search warrant for all fed learner's home was obtained at nine twenty one pm on january the th members of the task force along with belmont police patrol division and belmont police detectives anted all fetter's residence where they discovered thirteen grams of fenton all along with other drug paraphernalia jennifer francis age twenty four was present in all of feather's home at the time detectives and officers entered the home  francis of danvers massachusetts was arrested on two outstanding warrants for the charges of drug possession of a class a drug out of salzburg he and an eye for drugs out of watertown and colleague claire thanks bob the boat show coming to boston in february board a forty five foot luxury yacht hop on salt the life sized whale try your hand at interactive casting and cruise more than six hundred of the latest boat models all under one roof as the th edition of the progressive insurance new england boat show presented by west marine bring summer sailing back to boston convention and exhibition center february th through the th two thousand and nineteen attracting more than fifty thousand marine enthusiasts of all ages the nine day interactive educational and entertaining experience office attendees a virtual tidal wave of activities exhibits boats and features for every budget and level of interest now over to there will be a donation box of the waiting room for participants to donate to some white sox of any size album help or will donate all sark to nations to boston health care for the homeless and agency that cares for homeless individuals for every two pairs of socks donated for will add an additional pair boston health care for the homeless will be contacted as donations come in and the donations will be then distributed to the people they serve back to you bo around belmont