The Week of Review in Belmont: Light Department and NSTAR Now Partners, Rugby State Champs

In an agreement signed this week, the Belmont Municipal Light Department is partnering with utility giant NSTAR to build the town's new electric system which will reduce the total debt of the project – that includes constructing a new substation and laying 115kW cables – from $53 million to $23 million, cutting in half the anticipated jump in average bills to pay for the project from 14 percent to 7 percent. 

Due to increases in MWRA fees, Belmont's combined water and sewer rates will increase by 4.6 percent in the coming fiscal year. Expect even higher increases in future years as the MWRA anticipates higher contributions from their partner municipalities.

Belmont's fiscal $91.7 million budget came out this week but it is subject to change in anticipation of the final state budget which will impact education and general state aid. 

by defeating nationally-ranked and number-one seed Bishop Hendricken High School of Warwick, Rhode Island, 16-5, in Devens, Mass. The team won the Div. II championship in 2011. 

Belmont High's Performing Arts Company's production of 'Grease' is nominated for 16 Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild Awards, more than any other high school production in the state. 

'Mr. Belmont' is not your average geisha.

Belmont Savings Bank was named one of the top 100 performing companies in Massachusetts, according to the Boston Globe.