The Week in Review: Town Meeting and Hollywood Coming to Belmont

The first two nights of the annual Belmont Town Meeting took place Monday as the yearly gathering of Belmont's legislative body approved new powers for the Town Administrator and increasing the number of restaurant liquor licenses and stores that can sell alcohol while on the second night the Town Meeting voted to approve the nine projects being funded by the town's Community Preservation Committee.

The Demolition Delay Article will not be heard until June as questions to the wording and structure of the by-law forced the delay.

Belmont's Town Administrator David Kale has been hospitalized with a "serious" acute illness that has forced time to be away from Town Hall.

A major Hollywood movie starring Robert Downey Jr. will be filming in Belmont as the town has received a "letter of intent" to shot two days of scenes in July at the former Belmont Municipal Light Department in Belmont Center.

The long-anticipated infrastructure work in Belmont Center started Monday, taking more than a year to complete. Almost all of the work will take place late at night.

The Dunkin' Donuts franchise that was preparing to open in the new strip mall on Concord Avenue was derailed by the parent company when the owner of a Dunkin' shop in Cambridge's Fresh Pond opposed the new competitor entering his territory.

US Rep. Ed Markey won three of every four Democrat vote in Belmont in the special election primary to replace John Kerry in the US Senate while Gabriel Gomez took 50 percent of Belmont voters to win the GOP Race.

Chenery Middle students brought a bit of Broadway to Belmont as they staged "Once Upon a Mattress." 

A 'new' look Belmont Marauder logo was voted on by students and staff at the High School.