hello welcome to this week's edition of the belmont journal i'm your host jeff hansell the executive director here at the belmont media center and i'd like to remind all of you folks out there that is your source fo hyper local news if you have a tip if you have a photograph if you have maybe some video of an event that took place here in belmont please email frederick rigoletto our news director at fred at belmont media dot org first up in the headlines today is the news coming out of the most recent high school building committee first off the school committee voted unanimously to approve the grade configuration for the proposed high school of seventh grade through the twelfth grade but also the building committee the building high school committee approved the schematic design for the proposed high school we talked to some people and we're back here with the franklin b talker the belmont tony and you just saw a little segment with some comments from folks following the bomb a high school building committee meeting there two votes explain those to us a little bit more detail frankly well the first we have the vote to accept the schematic design there's a vote to accept the rough design that will be turned into a schematic design and there was a vote on the great configuration from the school committee which was the most important vote because it now lens will tell you how big the building will be and who will be in the building and it's true that those votes are sort of tied together you can't really do them separately that is right they they has a because that's why they get them on the same meeting you have to do that the same time just so everybody can be on the same page ok i'm going to ask you to give your personal opinion do you think there was a lot of that was a surprise or was ther support for the what is called the bow tie design and it really came down to superintend failing grade configuration showing in great detail that a seven to twelve great configuration at this new high school will solve all the problems but not all the problems but that's majority of the problems the school to the school departments having with a neural net because it's also not just about what's happening now but what's going to be coming down the line so they have to kind of strict speed strategic about the space and how it will be used ten five years from now that's right if you look for it maybe eight years in another three hundred fifty four hundred kids that's just large you're going to have to find some way to build a new elementary school and there's just no place and no money for it ok so a lot more updates to follow we will be doing a special about the status with the boma high school building committee so watch for that but there's also on tuesday on tuesday night that she would not be running ok but she she e mailed me on wednesday saying that she's going to take she's going to be running for mr bush years one year term she just want to do one more year she has for the next two years anybody else running that we're not aware of no one yes ok finally there was a little bit of news about pet registration some changes regarding that  so we're going to take a look at that and we'll see you back here for sport white spotlight thank you very much thanks for being here the two thousand and eighteen pet licensing belmont residents may renew their pet licenses for dogs and cats online or visit the town clerk's office during regular business hours and up to date rabies vaccination must be on file in the town clerk's office in order to renew online and the licensing fees are neutered spayed twelve dollars per pet nine dollars if the owner is sixty years of age or older an altered thirty seven dollars per pet thirty four dollars a phone or sixty years of age or older and we're here with joanna journalists from the belmont susan herald and work in local dot com belmont what's going on this week in what are you reporting about so one of my headlines is about the belmont farmers market jeff the belmont food collaborative went before the board of selectmen on january twenty second to get approval for the two thousand and eighteen season ok however th didn't get approval they did not get or pay did not get approval because what happened is in two thousand and seventeen there was an issue with the manager of lock a tele properties kevin foley he was concerned because he said you know we've had the belmont farmer's market in the belmont center parking lot now i have all these new businesses opening and he was concerned about parking for these new businesses ok the farmer's market takes one nine hundred eighty s for the for the vendors that set up and it's twenty one days between june and october so what the farmer's market committed to do in two seven two thousand and seventeen was count the spaces they counted how much parking spaces were taken each day of the market at three pm and five p it ended up being that there was an average of twenty seven to fifty eight open spaces during market time so they went before the board of selectmen saying saying look like there was a parking issues can we just get approval for two thousand and eighteen however so they you're saying they did the study and according to any reasonable estimation there are plenty of parking spaces right to account for the ok to to their farmer's market relations right they checked it twice a day every day ok so and so they didn't get approval yet because the manager of the catelli properties don't fully showed up again and speaking on behalf of the belmont center business association said we still have concerns and they have been addressed he has four new businesses three that are open now  route in cambridge where and one that will be opening in the catering the wellington restaurant and he's just concerned as are the businesses i actually talk to gerry out from his morning that he's president of the belmont center business association he is also concerns like why we love the market we support the market here that however it could affect parking so and they do it a different day he said can they do it on a less busy day because theirs is actually a very busy day so so that decision so whether or not to the traffic issue in belmont particularly with the high school project there was a meeting that i reported about recently so concern about increased traffic right at the high school right that's one of the best but there's traffic regardless it's not just school related traffic there's a resident his name is camille fully and he believes that the traffic is a result as as many resident residents believe those g p s apps ways and google archives erecting people to through belmont i've heard the speech in other it's not a certainly particular development it's everywhere right where line right way to get through right so he went before the traffic advisory committee like seven months ago and he did this presentation and they said wait until the high school project and then we'll talk to you again so seven months later he went before the board of selectmen he did his presentation again about what he thinks would be so lucian's to this problem and one of his solution is to put up signs strategically placed signs that say do not enter belmont residence only no left turn ice no right turn because these signs will deter ways and google from directing people ok so without that this has worked yeah and he also another idea that he has for a solution is to put a toll during rush hour on route two but i don't know if that's going to fly because that has to be approved by the state that's what's going to happen with with his recommendations is glen clancy the director of community development and the traffic advisory committee going to do their own study of traffic town wide traffic in belmont you can mitigate the traffic and see what solutions they can come up with to see if any of his solutions could work ok we need to stay tuned and tend to the ones that happen all right well that's that's good that then i think is always an issue right now the town's really taking it seriously and going to try and there's an update on the regulations regarding marijuana w there's an update if you want to call it that march fifteenth is when the regulations are supposed to be drafted by the cannabis control commission they've been drafting them but they're supposed to be complete march fifteenth so after march fifteenth the selectmen are going to decide what with they're going to decide either do nothing or they can to decide maybe to have a town meeting for town meeting to decide if belmont should opt out completely from allowing marijuana establishments to open for adult use recreational marijuana in belmont either opt out completely or opt out of certain things like there's there's mail order delivery right they may want to opt out of that so we have to wait and see so we'll have to march you can see that there's both sides that argument where somerville cambridge are going to be doing business and you know right it does velma its own right pope belmont says they'd like to be able to regulate right marijuana in belmont and the only way to do that declared a driving ban belmont residents were snowed in for four days kids didn't have school like until after february vacation i know how we were off school for four days or something like that yeah oh well speaking of blizzards and snow yes kind of related right we've got a segment here about our world marathon challenge runner back to p c who will be running a marathon in the antarctic soon or right now baby let's take a look at that want to know what's happening to belmont this week here's jane peters with this week's community calendar hello i'm jane and this is your community calendar for this week january twenty ninth through the fourth on tuesday january thirtieth travel to one of the world's foremost destinations for wildlife healing as priscilla ileo takes you back to her trip to the galapagos islands you a brilliant photo tour of her adventures underwater snorkeling encountering tortoises sea lions marine in quantities and more did you know that babies is in a six months can understand and use sign language to communicate learn more than twenty five early signs to teach and use with your child in a parenting workshop at the b t l on tuesday from six thirty to seven thirty pm with watertown public speech and language pap ologist meghan a lewinsky this workshop will introduce basic science to help increase vocabulary in your baby will work to prevent the first in a series of clinics in the science of cycling on tuesday at seven thirty pm part one will focus on the athlete's heart in this hour long lecture dr aaron bagus will discuss his research on the relationship between exercise intensity and cardiac remodelling dr baggage is the associate director for the cardiovascular performance program at mass general hospital and as a professor of cardiology at harvard medical school media and technology play a bigger role in children's lives now more than ever before beyond the remote control with dr diane levon professor of early childhood education at willet college will focus on what parents and teachers should know and do to counteract the negative and promote the positive to ensure healthy development and learning in these times if you love reading with your child and promoting healthy literary habits the b t l hosts a parent child book club each month sign ups start on february first you can sign up on libraries website or by congress children's department registered families will be able to pick up a copy of the worries book to borrow at the children's room desk well you see rumple investigative reporter with a thirty six year career at the l a times is giving an author talk at the national association for armenian studies and research on his book the gambler this engrossing biography tells the rags to riches stories of kirk  america's wealthiest and least known financial giants attend this author talk at seven thirty pm the gambler will be available for purchase in signing by rampal from fort worth texas the collective brewing project is a destination for funky and sour beer and for the first time they're bringing some of their funk to belmont's craft beer cellar on feb first meet some of the crew find out more about voter fermentation aging in oak barrels and what makes the perfect balance in funk and sour there'll be a lot to learn about this urban funk ause so head down to craft beer cellar on the first from five thirty to seven thirty to see what makes the collective bring projects so unique and if you consider yourself more of a wine lover a fine wines is hosting a winter wine tasting on saturday the third from three to six pm wine educators and experts will help guide you to your new favorites to warm you up this winter on friday and saturday you won't want to miss entertaining and educational production of these answers a groundbreaking the vagina monologues presented by the day belmont v day is a national nonprofit organization that raises millions of dollars in the effort to stop violence against women and girls fundraise from these performances will benefit new beginnings re entry services a unique program assisting women transitioning from incarceration and looking forward to the following week the belmont police department will be holding an opioid resource night on feb eighth at the beach street center if you or someone in your life is looking to enter recovery representatives from local treatment providers will be available to provide information and assistance you can learn more season's team the one glaring deficit is its inability to put four complete quarters together that was an problem this week as pritchett's marauders held together against a strong melrose team winning seventy to sixty three belmont is currently six and five on the season danny armenian was the lead score with twenty eight points including eight in the critical fourth quarter when belmont outscored the red raiders twenty five to thirteen but a sophomore mack anis who's who stole the officer show with six threes including three three trays in the fourth where he scored thirteen of his twenty two points well it scored eleven and fell forward and senior jake pollock hit for seven and girls hoops the marauders down arlington seventy three to fifty five is a player scored led by center just giorgio who had thirteen and many assists the girls took off in the second quarter to have a double digit lead and kept that and kept the advantage between fifteen and ten points until the end of the game belmont travel to melrose to face a six into greater team and behind junior guard megan tan scored twelve who scored twelve points and collect  four steals in five rebounds led the marauders in its fifty four fifty seven forty three when both teams both hoop teams will be playing on friday against their arch rival watertown the girls will be at the manor field house while the boys will travel up common street to watertown and that's it for the belmont journal this week but i thank all of our contributors franklin enjoy and stay tuned for programming highlights here on the channels see you next time