Belmont Vice Mayor Bill Dickenson, arrested in May for an alleged sexual assault, faces up to a year in jail after being charged with two misdemeanors Monday in a separate incident.

Survey may mute controversy about noise

156 days ago

The ruckus raised over the noise made by Notre Dame de Namur University’s Koret Field may finally be hushed.

Steep fees for felled trees — if Belmont has its way

165 days ago

The city has filed a lawsuit against three property owners and a tree maintenance company for allegedly chopping down 33 trees without a permit, as one official called it the largest wholesale, unauthorized removal of trees in recent city memory.

Freshman enrollment surges at Notre Dame

189 days ago

In the last five years, the incoming class walking the historic halls of Belmont’s Notre Dame de Namur University has dwindled until last fall, when there were just 96 freshmen to replace this year’s graduating class of 215.

Road repair proving uphill battle

213 days ago

Every time Carol Schoening wants to leave her house, she must carefully reverse her car 300 feet up her road, inch by inch. She has no choice: two-thirds of Marburger Road is washed out, and the city says the street is not its responsibility to fix.

Crash victim’s lawsuit casts wide net

219 days ago

The family of a boy trapped under a sport utility vehicle last May after a driver ran into a crowd of students at Ralston Middle School in Belmont, leaving 13 injured, has filed a lawsuit against the city, the school district and the transit district.

Belmont evicts scribbling resident

232 days ago

A woman’s battle to keep hand-painted messages of biblical references and conspiracy theories on one of the last of her Peninsula homes is drawing to an end after she was evicted from her Belmont residence.

You better finish construction in Belmont quick

241 days ago

More and more, San Mateo County residents who want to expand their homes are under a time crunch to make changes or they’ll find themselves owing money to the cities in which they reside.

Man found dead in his car after apparent traffic accident

245 days ago

A 21-year-old San Mateo resident was found dead in his car Friday morning after his vehicle was spotted in the bushes off northbound U.S. Highway 101 north of Marine Parkway in Belmont, according to the California Highway Patrol.