The Week in Review in Belmont: School Starts, Water Main Headaches and a Pool by '15

Belmont welcomed the first day of the new school year. School Superintendent Dr. Thomas Kingston described the district's status as 'healthy and and promising." He also recalled to returning teachers his meeting as a young man with Martin Luther King and how that inspired his teaching philosophy. 

There was a large water main break on Common Street in which repairs took nearly nine hours and caused the closing of a portion of the busy byway near Cushing Square.

The newly-created Pool Building Committee has released a tentative calendar on constructing a new facility by June 2015. 

The state-financed Trapelo/Belmont Corridor Reconstruction, nearly a decade in the offing, is set to finally begin work officially in October.

State Sen. Will Brownsberger conducted a Labor Day weekend toured the Fifth Massachusetts Congressional district on a bike: 110 miles in a little more than 14 hours. 

Belmont and Middlesex law enforcement arrested a resident and two from Boston in a drug bust after receiving complaints of illegal activity on the Belmont/Watertown/Cambridge town lines along Belmont Street. 

Belmont Police is seeking information concerning an incident between a fifth graders  and a man in a white SUV near the Chenery Middle School.