Belmont News & Updates

Photo: The Belmont High School Boys' Rugby squad celebrate its 2022 MIAA Division 1 State Championship with the tournament trophy. Boston College High School rugby squad is known as the Eagles, but at MIAA Division 1 state title match, it was the Belmont High ruggers who flew to victory. In a match where Belmont's embrace […] [...]

Photo: MBTA meeting on new bus routes including one through Belmont. (credit: Wikipedia) As part of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Bus Network Redesign initiative – to re-imagine the MBTA's bus routes to better serve current and future bus riders – the authority is holding a series of regional meeting to present and discuss the new bus […] [...]

Photo: Summer is here as the Underwood Pool opens for the 2022 swim season. Summer in Belmont officially started on Tuesday, June 21 just before 6 a.m. with the sun setting on the longest day of the calendar year at 8:26 p.m. (Compared that to sunset in Reykjavík, Iceland that occurs at 12:04 a.m., the […] [...]

Photo: Belmont High School Senior Capt. Evie Hamer holds aloft the MIAA state championship trophy after Belmont defeated Lincoln-Sudbury, 34-0, to win its fourth consecutive Division 1 rugby state title After a first-half where it was forced to rely on its underrated defense by a gutsy Lincoln-Sudbury Regional team, Belmont High School Girls' Rugby flipped […] [...]

Photo: Paul Lyons in February 2019 Paul Lyons, a legendary high school coach who brought to Belmont its only state boys' basketball championship as well as being a respected Bemontian, died suddenly on Sunday, June 19. Lyons coached the Belmont High boys' basketball team for a quarter century from 1976 to 2000 and led it […] [...]