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Belmont community responds to recent racial and hate incidents Wicked Local Belmont Public School students returned to in person learning full time a little more than one month ago. During this short time there have been nearly 10 hate and racial incidents involving middle and high school students. These incidents include racial and homophobic graffiti on the Butler and Wellington Elementary School buildings and Chenery Middle School playground, an Asian student getting spit upon at the Chenery Middle School and two threatening Tik Tok videos, one where a student threatens to kill every popular white girl in her grade and the other where a student posts, “I’m homophobic” and “Why haven’t we mass murd3red all g@ys yet?” ....
Wicked Local The first live indoor event at Town Hall since the pandemic began was the swearing in of Belmont s new Fire Chief David DeStefano the morning of March 15. Surrounded by his wife and two children, the Select Board, Police Chief James MacIsaac, Town Administrator Patrice Garvin, and members of the Belmont Fire Department including Assistant Chief Wayne Haley, DeStefano took is oath of office with Town Clerk Ellen O Brien Cushman. I m looking forward to this opportunity. I think it will be very challenging, rewarding and enjoyable, said DeStefano. DeStefano was offered the position by the Select Board in January after a four month search by the appointed screening committee with the assistance of the firm, Municipal Resource Inc. ....
Belmont residents push Select Board to hire diversity director for town in wake of racial killing By Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent,Updated January 27, 2021, 10:46 p.m. Email to a Friend Some Belmont residents called for the town to hire a diversity director and to provide funding for local antiracist organizations during a Wednesday night Select Board meeting to discuss the killing last week of a Black and Latino man in the town, allegedly by a white man who used a racial slur. Town officials heard from Black, Hispanic, and Asian residents about their firsthand experiences with racism during the online meeting to discuss the ....