LETTER: Let’s Protect Our Immigrant Communities

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.

Essay: “Ground Ball” — An Ode to Spring, Baseball and Keeping the “Mounds” Clean

Paul J. Sullivan Playground

By George DonahueWatertown Resident

Forward

While I wrote this in the spring 2014 when living in Watertown at the Coolidge Apartments, the stories in and around baseball never go out of style. The story was published in the Watertown Tab when I wrote it and I worked in the Clerk’s office in the town hall. The director of the Parks and Recreation at that time came rushing into the Clerk’s office waving the paper in the air asking if I authored the article. I acknowledged that it was me who penned the article, expecting to feel the newspaper  bop me off the head, but instead he thrust hand out, said it was a good article and walked out of the clerk’s office.

Watertown Youth Baseball & Softball Equipment Sale

The following announcement was provided by Watertown Youth Baseball & Softball:

Watertown Youth Baseball & Softball will hold an equipment sale on March 19 from 7-8:30 p.m. in KidConnect at the Watertown Boys & Girls Club (lower level). Proceeds benefit the WYBB League.

WEEKEND FUN: Irish Dancing, Used Book Sale, Theater, Benefit Concert, Amigas Wellbeing Summit

I love the variety of activities that I have found for you this weekend. Let’s start with a trip to Gore Place on Friday evening or Saturday morning for a used book sale. You know you want to read more and spend less time on screens. Also, on Friday night and Saturday afternoon there is a play called Human Vivekananda at the Mosesian. It highlights the life of Swami Vivekananda, his spiritual and human side of life. Saturday there is an Irish dance demonstration at the library. Saturday afternoon there is a wellness summit for Hispanic women. I left the description in Spanish, hoping that some Spanish speaking town residents will be interested. Additionally on Saturday, there is a benefit piano and vocal concert at First Parish Church, featuring David Rivera Bozon and Hector Vargas. The money all goes to support Watertown residents in need

Watertown Restaurants Will be Spotlighted at Chamber’s Spring Seasonings Event on April 13

Watertown’s Nzuko restaurant will be appearing at the Charles River Chamber’s Spring Seasonings Event.

The Charles River Chamber announced the lineup for the 2026 Spring Seasonings event, which spotlights restaurants from Watertown, Newton, Wellesley, and Needham. See which Watertown eateries will be featured at the event in the announcement from the Chamber, below.