Real Estate
More Than Two Dozen Open Houses This Weekend Around Watertown
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Tons of open houses around town over the weekend. See details below.
Watertown School Bus Fees Increasing, District May Buy Electric Buses
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School bus fees will rise $200 for students who don’t qualify for the mandated busing areas of town in the 2026-27 school year. School officials will also look at purchasing its own buses, which would be electric.
Watertown’s Bob Hall, First Boston Marathon Wheelchair Champ & Advocate for Access, Has Died
Bob Hall won the Boston Marathon’s first wheelchair division race in 1975.
Bob Hall, a Watertown resident and trailblazing wheelchair athlete and advocate for access, died at the age of 74. A private funeral service will be held at a later date, and visiting hours were held at Nardone Funeral Home on April 16.
Watertown’s Budget Maintains Programs & Staffing, But City Needs Legislature’s Help to Do So
Photo by Charlie BreitroseWatertown City Hall
Despite uncertain economic times, Watertown’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget will maintain the City’s program and staffing from the current year, but keeps staffing “headcount neutral.” The City will be in better shape than many communities in the area, City Manager George Proakis told the City Council on Tuesday night.
After Recent ICE Detention in Watertown, School & City Officials Were Asked About Plans & Protections
Following the detention of a Watertown man by federal immigration enforcement agents on April 10, School and City officials discussed actions being taken or planned by local officials.
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New Historic Marker to be Unveiled, Celebrates Day That Watertown Welcomed a Key Figure in the Revolution
Watertown Athlete Wins Titles on the Wrestling Mat and in the Boxing Ring
Schools
Proposed Watertown School Budget Cuts Multiple Positions, Increases Athletics, Busing Fees
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Watertown School officials, with the guidance of the School Committee, have reduced a shortfall of $2.5 million and came up with a budget that would have a $700,000 surplus, according to the presentation made Monday by Superintendent Dede Galdston.
Around Town
St. Patrick Family Players Performing “Resurrection” on Palm Sunday
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The following announcement was provided by St. Patrick Family Players:
Please join us for this free, musical performance on Palm Sunday, March 29th at 7:00 PM at St. Patrick’s Church, 212 Main Street, Watertown.
Around Town
Watertown Group Providing Musical Accompaniment to Boston Area Protests
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Rosie and the Resister performed at a No Kings Rally in Boston in March. (Contributed Photo)
Rosie and the Resisters have hit political protests big and small around the Boston area, and will appear at a pair of No Kings III protests including one in Watertown.
Schools
Watertown Student Named Semifinalist for Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship
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Jack Kent Cooke Foundation logo
The following information came from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation:
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation announced today that Yuanzhe Wang of Middlesex Community College is among the semifinalists for its highly competitive Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. The Foundation named 485 semifinalists for the scholarship, which supports the nation’s top community college students with financial need seeking to complete a bachelor’s degree at four-year colleges or universities.
Letters
LETTER: Chamber Encourages Council to Adopt Local News Day Resolution
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The following letter was sent to City Council President Mark Siders by the Charles River Regional Chamber:
Dear Council President Sideris,
On behalf of the Charles River Regional Chamber, I write to urge the Watertown City Council to designate April 9 as Local News Day.
Around Town
Find Out About Proposed Solar Project at Gore Place During Developers Meeting
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A Public Information Meeting for the Gore Place Agrivoltaics project will be held on Tuesday, March 31 at 6:30 p.m.
Government
City Has $4M Left from Elementary School Projects, Which Will Go to High School & Middle School Projects
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Cunniff Elementary School is one of three elementary schools in Watertown to be rebuilt or renovated. The projects closed out with a combined surplus of $4 million. The new school opened in 2021. (Photo by Watertown Public Schools)
Watertown’s elementary school building projects finished with a surplus of more than $4 million, which will allow the high school construction project to stay on budget, and fund designs for a potential new middle school.