5 Things: Comment to the Selectmen, Join the Reading Program

1. Got a gripe about town services, a complaint or a compliment for a town department? Your chance to be hear happens at 7 p.m. at Town Hall when the Belmont Board of Selectmen opens its meeting with public comment time.

2. Roadwork continues along Trapelo Road as the town's contractor Insituform Technologies continues sewer and drain repairs on Moraine and Sycamore streets beginning at 7 a.m. 

3. Teens: Sign up before July 4th for the Belmont Public Library's Summer Reading Program; read and log in one book, and be entered into a drawing for a coveted pair of Red Sox box seat tickets. See the home town team up close and personal as they return to the top of the standings. The winner will have a choice of three games.

4. Summer is here and with it comes a spike in electrical usage. Belmont Light has a few tips on saving energy consumption over the heat of the next few months: one is to use a microwave to cook; it uses less energy than a stove or oven and will add less heat to the kitchen. 

5. On this day in 1775, Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.