News: Recent Coverage

Belmont has done a good job of addressing hazardous situations caused by inclement weather and is on its way toward having a plan in place that will bring the town grant money to keep it even safer.That's what representatives from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) told the Belmont Board of Selectmen at a July 12 meeting where they provided an update on Belmont's pre-disaster mitigation plan that will fulfill the requirements of the Federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000.

The federal government awarded $3 million yesterday to Boston’s planned bike sharing program, giving the city and its partners seed money to purchase the stations and bicycles needed to launch next spring. With the MBTA signing the grant application, the city of Boston convinced the federal government that bike sharing could be a viable component of a robust, green public transit network.

Set to introduce a skeletal logo with a red "X" eye tomorrow, a new, multilingual campaign aims to drive home a message that bland government signs along the Sudbury River apparently have not: Don't eat the fish. Organizers are hoping the warning finally catches on with local anglers, some of whom make the waterway's bass, pickerel and other gilled-species a regular part of their families' seasonal diet, despite reported risks."We know a lot of people fish in the river," said Martin Pillsbury, environmental manager for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, a project partner.

On June 17, representatives of municipal governments around the region, including three from Lexington, met to share success stories and strategies from their local Town Meetings. Held at Cary Memorial Hall in Lexington, the forum brought together 21 local officials from the Minuteman Advisory Group on Interlocal Coordination (MAGIC), which includes Acton, Bedford, Bolton, Boxborough, Carlisle, Concord, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Maynard, Stow and Sudbury.