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The following announcement was provided by the City of Watertown:
Watertown Community Education’s 2023 Town Wide Yard Sale is Saturday, June 10 & Sunday, June 11, 2023. The event will be held rain or shine. There will not be a rain date. Come & find your neighbors’ hidden treasures! Join us for the annual Town Wide Yard Sale.
The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Arrests
May 18, 5:57 p.m.: Officers patrolling on Arsenal Street near Greenough Boulevard spotted a man they knew to have a warrant for his arrest. Michael Halner, 40, of Watertown, was placed under arrest on the warrant out of Waltham District Court for two counts of threats to commit a crime.
May 19, 3:18 p.m.: A shoplifter at Target left the store. Store security gave Police a description and officers located him at a bus stop on Arsenal Street. The man walked past the registers with a large tote bag which made a clanking sound as he walked.
Rev. George Alexander Oviatt
By Bill McEvoy
In honor of Memorial Day, local historian Bill McEvoy has compiled histories of some of the Civil War clergy who are buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. This is part 14 of 15. Reverend George Alexander Oviatt was Born on April 11, 1811, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He died June 1, 1887, in Sudbury, Massachusetts, from paralysis. Reverend Oviatt, graduated from Yale in 1835, and then its divinity school.
Noah Kahan performed at Boston Calling on Saturday. His music is inspired by his home state of Vermont, but now resides in Watertown. (Photo courtesy of NoahKahan.com)
Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan took the biggest stage at the premier music festival in New England — Boston Calling — on Saturday night. He grew up in a small town in Vermont, but the 26-year-old now calls Watertown home. Kahan’s meteoric rise was aided by a viral song about his home state, “Stick Season.”
Watertown had two blockbuster sales this week, with a duo of single families going for well over $1 million. 66 Duff St. UNIT 66, 2 bedroom 1 bathroom 874 sq. ft. Townhouse, Sold: $500,000
99 Pleasant St.
Images of the suspect or suspects in armed robberies of massage businesses in Watertown, on the left, and Cambridge on the right. Police said it could be the same man. (Photos courtesy of the Watertown Police Department). On May 16, a man came into a Watertown massage spa carrying a knife and demanded money from an employee. Watertown Police said the suspect resembles a man wanted for robbing a massage business in Cambridge.
A townhouse and a single family home are holding open houses this weekend. 51 Eliot St. #51, $899,900 3 bedroom 4 bathroom 2,019 sq. ft. Townhouse Open House: Saturday, May 27 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
25 Russell Ave., $2,500,000 5 bedroom 4 bathroom 4,304 sq.
A Google Earth image of the former Belmont Baptist Church. Developers sought a zoning change to allow for the building to be preserved and to develop other parts of the property. A majority of the City Council could not be convinced that the zoning should be changed for a parcel with a former church on Templeton Parkway. The change would have protected the building from being torn down, but also could allow a range of uses from education to restaurant or commercial, as well as housing. The proposal to create a Religious/School Building Overlay District at 126-134 Templeton Parkway, a property next to Belmont Street that includes the former Belmont Baptist Church building.