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The sign welcoming people to Arsenal Park.(Photo by Charlie Breitrose)
Watertown’s newest park renovation received a statewide award at the Massachusetts Recreation and Park Association Conference in Springfield this week.
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.
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.
Congresswoman Katherine Clark and Congressman Jim McGovern have lunch with Hosmer School second-graders Maya and Daphne. (Photo by Charlie Breitrose)
A pair of enthusiastic Hosmer Elementary School ambassadors showed two members of Congress around their school Wednesday, ending with a meal cooked up by the school cafeteria staff that featured produce grown in Watertown High School’s hydroponic farm.
Will Brownsberger
State Sen. Will Brownsberger announced that his office seeks applications for summer internships, and his office will be hosting an information session about changes to MassHealth. See more info in the announcement from the Senator’s office, below.
This week’s home sales includes two condos, a single family, a two-family and a townhouse.
The following announcement was provided by the City of Watertown:
The City of Watertown’s Recreation Department has multiple seasonal opportunities available, including for the Pequossette Summer Recreation Program.
The following announcement was provided by the City of Watertown:
Please be advised the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will host the fourth Working Group meeting of the Newton Corner Long-Term Planning Study virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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.
The following announcement was provided by the City of Watertown:
The City of Watertown invites you on Monday, April 6, 2026, at 6 p.m. to the Watertown Free Public Library (123 Main St.) for a community meeting about the latest updates with the implementation of the Watertown Square Area Plan.
By Daniel Lander
Nine of our neighbors in Allston are violently detained at gunpoint at a carwash. A graduate student is surrounded and kidnapped off the streets of Somerville. A Medford teen snatched anddetained while driving to volleyball practice. A five-year-old with autism used as bait to try to detain her father in Leominster. A 13-year-old abandoned on the sidewalks of Waltham after ICE grabbed the adult they were with.
This year’s Watertown High School musical, “Mamma Mia!” will be performed at the Mosesian Center for the Arts on March 27-29. See more information from WHS, below.