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City Watertown Retirees Will Get a Pension Boost After Council Vote
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This week, the City Council voted to give City retirees an increase in their pension benefits, while maintaining a fully-funded pension system.
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Watertown DPWTrash and recycling pickup begins again this week.
The City of Watertown announced that trash and recycling collection will resume beginning Monday. The strike continues, but Republic Services will use replacement crews to do the collection.
This week, the City Council voted to give City retirees an increase in their pension benefits, while maintaining a fully-funded pension system.
City Councilor At-Large Caroline Bays.
As part of the changes to the Watertown Charter all City Councilors must have an annual meeting to meet with the public. City Councilor At-Large Caroline Bays announced the date of her meeting. See info below.
Senior night is always special. It doesn’t matter if a team has a winning record or a losing one, is heading to the post-season tournament or not. Senior night is about family and friends. Senior night is about remembering all the good times and the practice and the commitment and the training and the devotion to team. Parents and grandparents and siblings share in the joy and recognition. And when the night is done, it’s hard to believe that one’s high school career is almost at an end.
Eastern Massachusetts wraps up the week with classic mid-May warmth, but a more unsettled weather pattern gradually takes hold heading into the weekend.
More than 35 Watertown homes will be having open houses over the weekend.
The Watertown Fire Department got approval to run a second ambulance after the City Council approved funding to staff the ambulance on Tuesday.
Watertown’s Department of Public Works will host an open house on Tuesday, May 20 at the DPW Facility on Orchard Street. See more in the announcement from the City of Watertown below.
Watertown City Hall
The City Council will hold three hearings on the Fiscal Year 2025 Watertown City Budget beginning on Tuesday, May 20. See more information provided by the City below.