Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Belmont Police to enforce bylaw restricting vehicles parking in the early morning hours.
It's winter and roadways are naturally more narrow especially after snow has fallen. And with that comes concerns that emergency vehicles may not be able to navigate Belmont's tight residential streets if vehicles are parked along the street, specifically in the dark. The Belmont Police Department is reminding residents that parking for more than one hour between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. is prohibited on all of Belmont’s public and private roadways, according to Assistant Chief James MacIsaac. The current fine for breaking the overnight parking ban is $15. A complete list of the Town’s parking regulations can be found in the General By-Laws of the Town of Belmont, Article 21, Vehicles and Parking, located on the Town’s web page.
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Belmont Police Department
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Anonymous $24,000 gift will provide police with dog, training and food for three years.
How much is that police doggie in the window? For Belmont Police Chief Richard McLaughlin, a $24,000 gift from a resident who wished to remain anonymous will now allow the department to have its first ever K-9 officer. The Belmont Board of Selectmen voted unanimously on Monday, Jan. 7 to accept the gift to allow the Belmont Police Department to purchase a dog and fund the initial and added training as well as covering the cost of veterinary care and food for three years. "I can't thank this person enough for allowing the department to have this opportunity," said McLaughlin. Whenever Belmont required a K-9 unit to assist in tracking down a suspect or search for drugs in a vehicle, it would need to send out a request to the Arlington …
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Belmont Police Department
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Belmont Town Hall
455 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Incidents handled by the Belmont Police. Just because you're arrested doesn't mean you've been convicted of anything.
Assault by alcohol Dec. 23 – In the pre-dawn hours of a Belmont morning, officers were called at 5 a.m. by a Hull Street resident after he said he was assaulted. But arriving patrolmen discovered very early on in their investigation that the caller was clearly in an intoxicated state and the alleged attack didn't actually occur. The officers did decide to take the resident into protective custody, for his own good. Not that important Dec. 23 – Just before noon, a Lake Street resident arrived at the police station to file a complaint that someone had fraudulently been using his credit cards. But when an officer arrived to the front foyer to take the report, the man decided to leave. Lock the front door? Why? Christmas Eve – A Wilson Avenue…
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Belmont Police Department
460 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Strong barriers and procedures only go so far; no school is "100 percent safe."
The staff and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. did everything right last Friday. Just after 9:30 a.m., as a stranger unknown to the school's office staff approached the main entrance carrying a high-powered rifle, the front doors were locked as part of a recently-installed buzzer system at the only public entry. A 9-1-1 call went out while teachers and their aids directing children into safe areas in classrooms and began locking the doors as Principal Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung and Mary Sherlach, Sandy Hook's school psychologist, confronted the gun-touting man. And still 20 first-graders, four teachers and aids along with Hochsprung and Sherlach were gunned down in the second worst school massacre on US soil. So …
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W. L. Chenery Middle School
95 Washington St, Belmont, MA
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Mary Lee Burbank Elementary School
266 School St, Belmont, MA
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Winn Brook Elementary School
97 Waterhouse Rd, Belmont, MA
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Daniel Butler Elementary School
90 White St, Belmont, MA
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Belmont High School
221 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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More than 40 police departments will be leaving the Burlington Mall Wednesday morning to deliver cards to six-year-old Nathan Norman in Rustburg, Virginia.
The one thing on Dawn Norman's wish list this holiday season is that her 6-year old son Nathan lives to see another Christmas, and that his wish of receiving cards, letters and patches from as many police officers, firefighters and EMTs is fulfilled. Why? Because police officers, firefighters and EMTs happen to be Nathan's heroes. As reported on New Milford Patch, three years ago, Nathan, who lives with his family in Rustburg, Virginia, was diagnosed with brain cancer. "I remember the doctor saying that there was an abnormality," Dawn Norman remembers. "The doctor kept telling me over and over that there was an abnormality and then it hit me. He was telling me that my son had cancer." Like most little boys, Nathan loves to watch cops, …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
In light of Sandy Hook, members seeking way, funds to reinstate an officer at Belmont High School.
Board of Selectmen Chairman Mark Paolillo remembers when his father, former Cambridge Police Chief Anthony Paolillo, first assigned a school resource officer – an unarmed uniformed police officer – at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School in the 1980s. "It was a great addition to the school and he felt they were able to resolve many potential issues," said Paolillo. In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings Friday that left 26 students and teachers along with the gunman dead at the school, Paolillo and the other members of the Board of Selectmen – Andy Rojas and Ralph Jones – indicated that restoring a school resource officer to at least Belmont High School would be high on their list of priorities for this budgetary …
Friday, December 14, 2012
I walked into the Belmont Police Station and a toy store broke out ...
When you enter the front doors of the Belmont Police Department, you think you're visiting a toy store. Two boxes are filled with trucks and stuffed animals with toys of all sorts and sizes along the sidewall. It's a display of some generous officers and residents who stopped by to give to the annual Toys for Tots drive. And you can join those residents by bringing new, unwrapped toys to the drop-off locations in Belmont. (see the list below) But you only have today and tomorrow to participate: the drive ends Saturday, Dec. 15. Every year for the past 28 years, the Massachusetts State Police has worked with the US Marine Corp Reserves to collect toys for needy children by using State Police Barracks as drop off locations and assisting …
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Incidents handled by the Belmont Police Department. Just because you're mentioned in this column doesn't mean you've been convicted of anything.
Unhealthy meal Thanksgiving – A quiet day for police other than the annual football game but they did have to assist fire rescue with three medical emergency calls during or just after the Thanksgiving meal. The tryptophan appears to have kicked in just in time. Nov. 23 – A gentleman returning to Belmont from Thanksgiving celebrations on the 73 bus line encountered two fellow passengers who were in a distinctly non-festive mood with the other. In fact, the threats of violence each made on the other caused the gentleman to call and warn police of a possible confrontation after the pair departed the bus at the end of the line at Lexington and Church. But a sweep of the area by officers didn't uncover the two possible combatants. Sounds …
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Incidents reported by the Belmont Police Department does not indicate a conviction.
Internet harrassment Nov. 15 – Earlier this month, a Gordon Terrace teen began receiving mail into her email account that was certainly unwarranted on her part. Men several years older then her began sending her request for personal information about herself and if they could meet up with her. Then came the phone calls to her private cell phone number with the same requests. It soon became apparent that someone had set up a personal account for her on meetme.com, a dating website "where new friends meet." The account not only had a photograph of the teen taken from her Facebook account, but her personal information and her cell phone number. The account was opened with an email address that was set up especially to create the fraudulent …
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Belmont Police Department
460 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Media to be kept in check with parking, traffic restriction near Beech Street Center.
Remember the media crush and traffic snarls this past February when Belmont's own Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, voted in the state's Republican primary? Residents had to weave their way around the Town Field neighborhoods due to crush of news trucks (and helicopters), curiosity seekers, political workers and protesters who surrounded the Beech Street Center. Now, as Belmont Town Clerk Ellen Cushman explains, multiply that activity by 10 come Nov. 6 when the world's media descends on the Town of Homes to witness the Republican candidate for president vote in his home town of the past 40 years. In an attempt to tamper, or at least control the coming news media "circus maximus," the Belmont Police Department has established a traffic and …
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Belmont Council on Aging
266 Beech St, Belmont, MA
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Franklin Tucker
10:58 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012
As for being escorted to a classroom, it happened to me twice but I suspect that was done because I am not a parent of a current student and I do get lost too often to remember. more ›