Week in Review May 24 - May 30

The big news occurred late in the week when the state's Department of Environmental Protection approved the mitigation plan from the developer of the proposed 299-unit Belmont Uplands mix-income apartment complex adjacent to the Alewife Brook Reservation in Belmont. The first reaction to the ruling has been negative.

This week also saw the completion of the annual Town Meeting. The two meetings saw the approval of the fiscal 2011 budget(s), denying a pay raise to the new Town Clerk, a discussion of state finances from State Rep. Will Brownsberger, the creation of an ad hoc committee to open the Town Meeting process and the revolt of tennis players in Belmont to save a set of tennis courts on Grove Street.

This was the week that Belmont Patch profiled One Belmont, the citizen's group that is promoting the successful approval of the Proposition 2 1/2 Override on June 14 and the great Belmont High runner, Victor Gras.

Belmont was also honored for being named a national tree city for 25 straight years. It was also the week when major sewer and road work began on Trapelo Road and will go down to Belmont Street over the summer.

The town lost a pair of landmarks as Our Lady of Mercy and the former Senior Center were razed for new development.

It was also the week before the Memorial Day Parade where the town's veteran's agent is looking for a few good veterans to march on this coming Monday.

In sports, girls' lacrosse came one game short of making the playoffs, Ben Levy and the High School's Boys' 400 meter relay team will be running at the All-States meet, and the baseball team is playing in the annual Brendan Grant tournament.