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SOLSTICE Returns to Mount Auburn Cemetery with New Light and Sound Installations for 2025

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The chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery was lit up for Solstice 2024. Tickets are on sale now for the 2025 edition. (Photo by Aram Boghosian)

The following announcement was provided by Mount Auburn Cemetery:

Mount Auburn Cemetery will host the fifth annual Solstice: Reflections on Winter Light from December 5–21, 2025, presented by the Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery and created by Boston-based artist collective MASARY Studios. The outdoor evening event has become one of Greater Boston’s most distinctive seasonal experiences, featuring immersive, large-scale light and sound artworks that transform Mount Auburn’s historic landscape into a living canvas of reflection and renewal. Now in its fifth year, Solstice continues to evolve as a world-class gathering for meaning—distinct from traditional holiday events—where large-scale contemporary artworks, including four new installations for 2025, invite reflection, connection, and renewal within one of Boston’s most historic landscapes.

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Watertown Church Hosting Chamber Music Concert

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The following announcement was provided by Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble:

Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble presents the second concert-set of its 2025-26 Concert Series, Sweet Sleep the weekend of November 14-16, 2025, including a date in Watertown on the 15th. Inspired by the many states of slumber and repose, the program includes gorgeous vocal and instrumental works by John Dowland, Thomas Arne, Antonia Bembo, Georg Muffat, J.B. Bach & J.S. Bach, as well as a traditional Nordic folk song arranged for string quartet. Sarasa will present Sweet Sleep at three public performances, as well as to incarcerated teens at Massachusetts’ Department of Youth Services facilities, as part of Sarasa’s award-winning ‘Music Unlocked’ program. Concert Information

Sweet Sleep

With Kristen Watson, soprano, Elizabeth Blumenstock, Rebecca Nelson, violins; Jenny Stirling, viola; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, piccolo cello/cellos; Michael Leopold, lute/theorbo; Michael Beattie, organ

Friday, Nov. 14, 2025 at 7 p.m. – Brattleboro Music Center, VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)

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Entertainment

Watertown Resident to be Featured in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”

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Jill Craig

Watertown actress Jill Craig will be a featured dancer in a musical production by Savoyard Light Opera Company in Carlisle on Nov. 14 and 21. See details in the announcement provided by the Savoyard Light Opera. The Savoyard Light Opera Company is proud to present “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” the musical and comedic satire of corporate culture and the ruthless pursuit of success. Can the Voice of a Book tell you all you need to know about getting to the top of the executive ladder?

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Detours This Week for Mt. Auburn Street Construction

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During the week of Nov. 10 some areas of Mt. Auburn Street will be closed and traffic will be detoured as road reconstruction continues in East Watertown. See details provided by the City of Watertown, below. Milling

Milling (removal of the top layer of pavement) on Mount Auburn Street between Lloyd Road and Boylston Street is scheduled to continue Monday, November 10, 2025.

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Mass Cultural Council Head Michael Bobbitt Taking New Position

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Michael Bobbitt

Michael Bobbitt, a Watertown resident and former director of the New Repertory Theatre, will be moving on from his position as head of the Mass. Cultural Council at the end of the year. See more information in the announcement from the MCC, below. Mass Cultural Council announced the departure of Executive Director Michael J. Bobbitt, effective December 31, 2025. Bobbitt has accepted the position of President & CEO of OPERA America and will begin this new role on January 1, 2026.

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City’s Human Services Director Joins Marshall Home Fund Board

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Jenna Bancroft

The Marshall Home Fund announced the newest addition to the Board of Directors. See more information provided by the organization, below. Please help us welcome Jenna Bancroft to our board. She is Marshall Home Fund’s new “Community Representative.” Jenna Bancroft is the City of Watertown’s first Human Services Director.

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COMIC: Small Saves Sets Goals for the Season

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James DeMarco grew up in Watertown and became a goaltender at age 5. It’s his life’s passion to stand between the pipes and keep the puck out of the net. Combining this with the love of cartooning Small Saves emerged in 1991 and took on a life of his own. “To play goal – then come home and draw Small Saves — is my ideal definition of a good day.”

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Grand Opening of Historical Society’s Exhibit About Watertown’s Dairies at the Police Station

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Joyce Kelly and Todd Rivers of the Historical Society of Watertown installed the display on Watertown’s dairies at the Watertown Police Station (Photo by Charlie Breitrose)

The following announcement was provided by the Historical Society of Watertown:

A few months ago, the Historical Society of Watertown was contacted by a couple of the police officers in Watertown. They wondered if we would be interested in partnering with them and installing an exhibit in one of the display cases in the police station lobby. We said “Yes – we would love to partner with you!”

After mulling over several ideas, we decided on an exhibit about the different dairies that were in Watertown over the years. These include Andrews Milk Co., Green Meadows, Shick/Watertown Dairy, Speedwell Farms and Woodland Dairy

Items on display include several photos and advertisements for the dairies. Also on display are many of the milk bottles from these dairies that we have in our collection at the Edmund Fowle House.