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Artwork created by Watertown students will be on display through the month of April. See details in the announcement from the Watertown Schools. Watertown Public Schools Art Show
Location: Watertown Mall
When: April 8 – May 1, 2025
Art Show Reception:
Tuesday, April 8, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Watertown Middle School will present “Mary Poppins Jr.” on March 28-30. See the information provided by the Watertown Public Schools below. The musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film will go on the WMS Auditorium stage on March 28 at 7 p.m., March 29 at 7 p.m., and March 30 at 2 p.m.
Tickets: General Admission $10, WPS Students Free
Watertown Middle School is located at 68 Waverley Ave., Watertown.
The following legal posting was provided by the Watertown Public Schools (originally posted on March 7):
WATERTOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 30 COMMON STREET WATERTOWN MA 02472 – In Accordance with provisions of Chapter 71, Section 38N, the Watertown School Committee will hold a Public Hearing on its proposed Fiscal Year 2026 Budget on Monday, March 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM in the Learning Commons, Lowell Elementary School, 123 Lowell Avenue, Watertown, MA 02472 or via Zoom at https://watertown-k12-ma-us.zoom.us/j/86285942047
A copy of the FY2026 Proposed Budget will be available to the public in the Office of the Superintendent of Schools and on the Watertown Public Schools Website, www.watertown.k12.ma.us , forty-eight hours before the date of the public meeting.
The following information was provided by the Rotary Club of Watertown:
All residents of Watertown who are high school seniors and applying to college are eligible for Watertown Rotary Scholarships. The amount of each award and the number of scholarships granted are determined on a yearly basis.
All eligible residents must submit completed applications, postmarked no later than April 18, 2025 to:
SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEEROTARY CLUB OF WATERTOWNc/o Anthony Donato42 Arden RoadWATERTOWN, MA 02472
The form must be completed in full and accompanied by a transcript and letter of recommendation to be considered a valid application. Incomplete or late applications will not be reviewed by the Scholarship Committee. All information supplied on this form will be kept strictly confidential. Only one application need be submitted to be eligible for consideration for all scholarships available through the Rotary Club of Watertown.
The School Committee update was provided by the School Committee Chair Kendra Foley:
The Watertown School Committee has had a busy start to 2025, with three meetings in the last six weeks that have been filled with reports, votes, and action items.
In the face of executive orders that threaten the safety, security, health, and humanity of the LGBTQ community, our committee unanimously reaffirmed our 2018 resolution supporting LGBTQ students and staff. Every student and staff member of the WPS community is entitled to an environment that feels safe, respectful, and welcoming, in which they can learn and work free from bullying, harassment, intimidation, threats, and violence. The WPS School Committee is committed to providing such an environment, and it will stand up to actions made by individuals or institutions to threaten, intimidate, or harm transgender and gender nonconforming students and staff. This commitment is grounded not only in our shared values but also in our adherence to Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 76, Section 5, which ensures that “no person shall be excluded or discriminated against in our schools based on race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation.”
Budget season is underway. Initial numbers show that, with the city’s annual 3.5 percent funding increase, WPS would still be on pace for a shortfall of $495,000 to meet a level services budget.
Watertown students can apply to be part of the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards. The Rotary Club of Watertown provided the following information. The Rotary Club of Watertown is actively searching for qualified candidates to attend this year’s Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) Conference to be held June 27-29, 2025, at Fitchburg State University. This annual leadership conference offers outstanding high school sophomores an opportunity to live, work and interact together in an atmosphere of friendly competition. It is a program designed to challenge the participants to utilize and improve their skills and accept the responsibilities of leadership.
Several students hailing from Watertown made the dean’s list at Assumption, Fort Hays State, Endicott, Quinnipiac, and Fairfield. Also, local students graduated from WPI and Georgia Tech. The information has been provided by the colleges and universities. Dean’s List
Assumption University
Assumption University has announced that Isabella Sadkowski, of Watertown, Class of 2028, has been named to the University’s Dean’s List for the fall 2024 semester. Students named to the Dean’s List must achieve a grade point average of 3.5 for a five-class, 15-credit semester to be included on the prestigious list, which is announced at the completion of the fall and spring semesters.
Lt. Paul Sullivan was killed in Vietnam in 1968, and a scholarship in his name has been given out for 56 years. The following information was provided by the Sullivan Scholarship Committee:
Announcing the 57th Lt. Paul J. Sullivan Scholarship, which is awarded in memory of Paul Sullivan, a Watertown-native who died serving in the Vietnam. Information about the Lt. Paul J. Sullivan Scholarship is online:https://sites.google.com/view/lt-paul-j-sullivan-scholarship
The application deadline is Thursday, April 17, 2025
The top scholarship is $5,500. Additional scholarships will be awarded. Last year there were 10 scholarships totaling $32,000.
Members of the Perkins School for the Blind Goalball team great Boston Bruins players Parker Wotherspoon and Matthew Potras on Friday. (Photo by Charlie Breitrose)
A couple of special guests showed up at the Perkins School Friday to join the students in a game of goalball — a popular team sport at the school for the blind in Watertown. Boston Bruins players Parker Wotherspoon and Matthew Potras pulled on the eyeshades so they couldn’t use their sight during the game in which teams of three try to roll a rubber ball across the gym and into the opponent’s goal. The ball has a bell in it, to help defenders locate and block the ball. Students and staff lined the upper level of Perkins’ gym to get a glimpse of two pro hockey players join their very own Towerhawks.
