2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Insituform Technologies will be performing sewer and drain work at the Slade Street Easement and at the intersection of Pine Street and Trapelo Road.
5. On this day in 1863, elements of the Union and Confederate armies initially collided at Gettysburg as Confederate General Robert E. Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it. Low ridges to the northwest of town were defended initially by a Union cavalry division and reinforced by infantry. But two large Confederate units assaulted them from the north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, sending the defenders retreating through the streets of the town to the hills just to the south. Nearly 50,000 men fought on that first day of the battle.
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