"He's a taller than I thought he'd be," said one man as US Senator Scott Brown came into the Belmont Media Center on Saturday, March 12, to the applause of supporters and area republicans. Brown, who played basketball in high school and college which explains his relative tall height, came to Belmont at the invitation of Belmont Republican Town Committee and neighboring town and city committees in Cambridge, Watertown and Lexington to sign copies of his recently-published autobiography, "Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances."  "Hi, guys," said Brown, taking …

On Monday afternoon, students from Belmont High School were transforming the hallway in the lower level of the Belmont Public Library into a whimsical floral landscape filled with outsized plants and books ready to be opened.  On the main floor, volunteers were hanging art by local artists on the theme of flowers in bloom: oils, photographs, watercolors and other media. These and other final preparations are going on at the library as the Friends of the Belmont Public Library are preparing to present "Books in Bloom," its star studded fundraiser that will support the library's member services…

It took a few seconds for the town's Christmas tree to light up and Santa Claus needed a bit of help from a pair of fire fighters to get off the Fire Department's ladder truck he rode into town. But for the crowd that packed Belmont Center Wednesday evening, Dec. 2,  at the annual "Turn on the Town" celebration, those tiny glitches could not wash away the overwhelming sense of joy and good tiding that enveloped the town's main street. Sponsored by the Belmont Center Business Association and organized by the Belmont Activities Committee, "Turn on the Town" allowed residents for the 20th  …

At 4 p.m., there was only one word that both Town Clerk Ellen O'Brien Cushman and the workers in the Town Clerk's office were using to describe voter turnout in Belmont. "Big," said Cushman, saying that she is seeing a great number of voters coming out to vote at the town's eight precincts. By the early afternoon, the town was predicting about 7 in 10 of the 16,000 register voters will come out to vote for state-wide offices, the local state representatives' race and a ballot question for the town.