Read the January/February 2026 BCF Newsletter.
In this issue:
Sign for the Minuteman Bikeway next to Winslow Towers, an Arlington Housing Authority property. Photo: Vincent Stanton, Jr.
How Rail Trails Can Serve Public Housing
What would it be like to have the path close to Belmont Village? Are there any local precedents for paths adjacent to public housing? Read more.
OPINION: Treat Invasive Plant Removal as a System
Invasive species such as glossy buckthorn, bittersweet, knotweed, and tree of heaven do not care about property boundaries or budget cycles. Yet our response to this threat is fragmented. Read more.
Why Recycling Stagnates
Our recycling system is struggling not because residents are necessarily doing it wrong, but because the system was never built to do what we now expect of it. Read more.
DER salt marsh monitoring, Newbury, MA. Photo courtesy of Beth Lambert
Beth Lambert: Restoring Rivers and Wetlands
The Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration (DER),works to restore and protect rivers, wetlands, and watersheds, from removing aging dams to revitalizing salt marshes and wetlands. Read more.
Profile in Belmont: Ken Stalberg
Ken Stalberg, former “Mailing Maestro” for the BCF Newsletter, principal violist with the Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra, the Boston Classical Orchestra, and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, as well as a violinist with the Boston Ballet Orchestra, took a straight path from a young age. Read more.
David Webster at the Sudbury River marker, August 2025. Photo: David Webster
Bicyclist Rides the Henry Knox Trail
This winter marks the 250th anniversary of an extraordinary Revolutionary War event that was pivotal in forcing the British evacuation of Boston in 1776. Read more.
First Church History
John Howe spoke at the Beech Street Senior Center about the history of First Church in Belmont, Unitarian Universalist, which was built in 1890 in the Romanesque Revival style. Read more.
1895 photograph of the Marquette Building. Source: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library/ Wikimedia Commons
Belmont Farmers Built Chicago Skyscrapers
In 1831, in the section of Watertown that later became the south part of Belmont, Peter Chardon Brooks was born. The child was to become one of the most important historic figures in the development of the skyscraper. Read more.
Correction
We salute Robert Young. Read more.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Belmont Needs You
Not tomorrow. Not “when things calm down.” Now. Read more.
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