Reporter Honored for Story About Unsolved Murder of Ex-Watertown Police Officer

WBUR reporter and Watertown resident Bruce Gellerman received a New England regional award for his piece on the unsolved murder of a former Watertown Police Officer. Gellerman’s piece “Who Killed Gail Miles?: The Unsolved Murder of a Retired Watertown Cop,” won the Edward Murrow R. Award award for Best Investigative Reporting from the Radio Television Digital News Association. (See the story here). Miles, who was 61, was found brutally murdered on Dec. 3, 2011 in her Roxbury home.

Red Cross Running Community Blood Drive at The Arsenal Project

The Red Cross will be at the Arsenal Project in Watertown for a community blood drive on July 1. 

The Arsenal Project provided the following details:

The Watertown Community Blood Drive will be held Friday, July 1, 2016 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

As a blood donor, you help make some of life’s most precious moments possible from family vacations to first day of school to walks on the beach. You help save lives. All presenting donors will receive a Red Cross lunch cooler bag, while supplies last. It will be held in the Innovation Space across from Dunkin Donuts, at The Arsenal Project, 485 Arsenal St., Watertown. For an appointment please call 1-800 RED CROSS (1-800- 733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org

For more information and directions www.thearsenalproject.com or telephone 617-923-9944.

Film Showing and Discussion of the Future of Education Coming to WHS

A movie about how to reimagine education will be shown at Watertown High School on June 28, with a discussion to follow. 

Organizers sent out the following information:

The Watertown Community Foundation and Watertown Public Schools are pleased to present a screening of Most Likely to Succeed. Come see this groundbreaking movie about education and be a part of the discussion about the future of education in our community – with parents, other residents, students, and faculty. School systems around the nation are using the ideas from the movie to drive discussions about re-imagining education and what our students are capable of. The film will be shown at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 in the Watertown High School auditorium. Please stay afterward for a panel discussion with parents, community members, and school administration.

A Wide Variety of Homes Having Open Houses This Week

See all the properties having open houses in Watertown this week. $849,900 – 129 Dexter Ave. 2 unit, 17 total room, 7 total bedroom, Open House: Sunday 12-2

$899,900 – 20 Emerson Road, 8 room, 3 bed, 2 full 2 half bath colonial, Open Houses: Saturday 12-2 Sunday 12-2

$484,500 – 30 Harrington St., 2 unit, 6 total room, 3 total bedroom 2 family, Open Houses: Saturday 1-3 Sunday 11-1

$484,500 – 30 Harrington St., 6 room, 3 bed, 2.5 bath cape, Open Houses: Saturday 1-3 Sunday 11-1

$524,900 – 26 Pine St., 5 room, 2 bed, 1 bath ranch, Open House: Sunday 11-1

$688,000 – 34 Chester St., 34, 6 room, 3 bed, 1 bath townhouse, Open Houses: Friday 11-12:30 Saturday 11-12:30 Sunday 11-12:30

$439,900 – 238 Arlington St. Unit 238, 7 room, 3 bed, 1 bath 2/3 family, Open House: Saturday 12-2

$769,000 – 21 Capitol St., 8 room, 4 bed, 1.5 bath victorian, Open Houses: Friday 12-1 Saturday 12:30-2 Sunday 12:30-2

$499,900 – 14 Falmouth Road, 7 room, 2 bed, 1 bath colonial, Open House: Sunday 1-3

$895,000 – 22 Garfield St., 9 room, 3 bed, 2.5 bath other, Open Houses: Saturday 12-1 Sunday 12-1

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$699,900 – 11 Hersom St. Unit 2, 6 room, 3 bed, 2.5 bath, Open Houses: Saturday 12-2 Sunday 12-2

$789,000 – 153 Summer St.