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		<title>Volunteers Clean Up and Restore Lone Tree Hill</title>
		<link>https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/29/volunteers-clean-up-and-restore-lone-tree-hill/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Radha Iyengar On a sunny and cool Saturday, April 25, the Belmont Citizens Forum (BCF), in conjunction with the Judy Record Conservation Fund, held its 12th annual Lone Tree Hill Volunteer Day. The volunteers included Girl Scout Troop 84205, Cityside Subaru employees, volunteers from Habitat, and citizens from Belmont and the surrounding communities. Many <a href='https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/29/volunteers-clean-up-and-restore-lone-tree-hill/' class='excerpt-more'>[READ MORE]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Letters to the Editor May/June 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/letters-to-the-editor-may-june-2026/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To the Editor of the Belmont Citizens Forum Newsletter, The January/February Newsletter essay on Chicago real estate investments by Belmont-born Peter Chardon Brooks III led me to think your readers also might like to know of his activity as a Boston art collector. In the mid-1860s, Brooks joined others acquiring paintings by French artists of <a href='https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/letters-to-the-editor-may-june-2026/' class='excerpt-more'>[READ MORE]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Belmont Historical Society Enjoys New Rooms</title>
		<link>https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/belmont-historical-society-enjoys-new-rooms/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Historic Preservation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Viktoria Haase, Belmont Historical Society president, provided an overview of the society’s collection in its new digs in the Belmont Library, including old newspapers and census ledgers in the Local History Room. The Underwood Room is lined with books, including a variety of town records along with books by local authors. Find both rooms on <a href='https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/belmont-historical-society-enjoys-new-rooms/' class='excerpt-more'>[READ MORE]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Miyawaki Forest Grows Through Two Seasons</title>
		<link>https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/miyawaki-forest-grows-through-two-seasons/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Fred Bouchard and Jean Devine By Clay Pit Pond’s bridge on that brilliantly sunny October morning, dozens of eager planters — aged 12 to 80, armed with shovels and trowels — were swarming among hundreds of potted saplings and bushes at Belmont’s inaugural Miyawaki Forest. (Akira Miyawaki, 1928-2021, was a Japanese botanist who developed <a href='https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/miyawaki-forest-grows-through-two-seasons/' class='excerpt-more'>[READ MORE]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>BCF Editor Retires</title>
		<link>https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/bcf-editor-retires/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[January 2004]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Sue Bass Meg Muckenhoupt didn’t invent the Belmont Citizens Forum Newsletter. It was already nearly four years old when she answered an ad for a new editor. Sharon Vanderslice, who had suggested creating the newsletter and had designed the first iteration, was tired of doing it. The first issue with Meg’s name as editor <a href='https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/bcf-editor-retires/' class='excerpt-more'>[READ MORE]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Profile in Belmont: Anne Marie Mahoney</title>
		<link>https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/profile-in-belmont-anne-marie-mahoney/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Elissa Ely At some point, we all become experts in grief. After Anne Marie Mahoney lost her mother, husband, sister-in-law, brother, and father within a few stunning years, she became an involuntary expert. Hospice and hospital resources were available in the beginning, but after a year or so—when the paperwork was done and the <a href='https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/profile-in-belmont-anne-marie-mahoney/' class='excerpt-more'>[READ MORE]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Environmental Leader: David O’Neill</title>
		<link>https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/environmental-leader-david-oneill/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mass Audubon, founded in 1896, is one of the oldest and largest conservation organizations in New England. With more than 112 wildlife sanctuaries across Massachusetts, a network of 180,000 members and supporters, and a mission to protect the nature of Massachusetts for people and wildlife, Mass Audubon combines land protection, habitat restoration, conservation science, and <a href='https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/environmental-leader-david-oneill/' class='excerpt-more'>[READ MORE]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Community Preservation Committee Endorses Projects</title>
		<link>https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/community-preservation-committee-endorses-projects/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Construction and Housing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Aaron Pikcilingis Each spring at Belmont’s Annual Town Meeting, Town Meeting members (TMM) consider projects recommended by the Community Preservation Committee (CPC) and vote whether to award each Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding. TMM may choose to either fund the project as recommended, reject the project, or reduce the funding. CPA funding requires both <a href='https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/community-preservation-committee-endorses-projects/' class='excerpt-more'>[READ MORE]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Belmont Joins the ADU Era</title>
		<link>https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/belmont-joins-the-adu-era/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Jeffrey North Belmont now allows small accessory apartments by right on most residential lots, putting it roughly in line with neighbors like Arlington and Lexington — but the number actually built so far remains very low. After years of debate, Belmont has joined the growing list of Massachusetts communities that allow “accessory dwelling units” <a href='https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/belmont-joins-the-adu-era/' class='excerpt-more'>[READ MORE]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>May/June 2026 BCF Newsletter</title>
		<link>https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/may-june-2026-bcf-newsletter/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Read the May/June 2026 BCF Newsletter &#160; In this issue: Brighton Street Rezoning Gets Started The zoning is to be developed utilizing the same form-based code that Town Meeting adopted in March when it created new overlay zoning for Belmont Center. Read more. Volunteers Clean Up and Restore Lone Tree Hill On a sunny and <a href='https://www.belmontcitizensforum.org/2026/04/24/may-june-2026-bcf-newsletter/' class='excerpt-more'>[READ MORE]</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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