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Belmont business owners are reacting to the latest indoor mask mandate announced by Belmont Town leadership—and response is mixed.

Wicked Local Cushing Square retailers, like Erin Brown, owner of The Blue Butterfly, opened her store at 113 Trapelo Road in Belmont in September 2019 with high hopes that The Bradford mixed use development located directly across the street would revive the area and make it a shopping destination, similar to Belmont Center.  She never anticipated the COVID-19 pandemic which forced her to shut down six months later. She also wasn’t aware there was a lawsuit  for $30 million filed against Toll Brothers, Inc., the developers, by Starr Capital Partners, LLC, former property owners in Septemb...

Black History Month focusing on ‘The Black Family’ as theme for 2021 By Chris Williams article A vigil was held in Cushing Square in Belmont for alleged hate crime victim Henry Tapia, who was run over by a vehicle in a road rage incident. Some of the crowd. (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff) Expand This year’s theme for Black History Month will focus on the "The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity." The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, or ASALH, chose the theme because the Black family has been a target of study in various academic disc...

Wicked Local Henry Tapia of Boston, who was struck and killed by a vehicle last week in what is being called a hate crime, was remembered in a vigil by Community Organized for Solidarity on Jan. 21. Hundreds gathered on Common Street in Cushing Square between Trapelo and Payson Roads holding "Black Lives Matter" signs and photos of Tapia, who was 35 when he was struck by a car operated by 54-year-old Dean Kapsalis of Hudson at around 4:22 p.m. on Jan. 19 on Upland Road in Belmont. Tapia was conscious when emergency workers first arrived, but he later died at Massachusetts General Hospital in...

Hundreds Gather In Belmont To Remember Henry Tapia And Decry Racial Hatred A crowd gathered in Belmont's Cushing Square for a vigil for Henry Tapia. Edgar B. Herwick III/ Hundreds gathered on a chilly Thursday evening in Belmont’s Cushing Square to speak out against racial hatred and remember Henry Tapia. Tapia, a 35-year old black and Latino man, was killed in Belmont earlier this week after an apparent road rage incident. The suspect, Dean Kapsalis, allegedly hurled a racial slur before getting in his pickup truck and running Tapia over. ”[Tapia] was a beloved brother, a belove...