Business

Council OKs Entering Agreement to Allow Recreational Marijuana Dispensary in Watertown

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The Town Council put its support behind a Host Community Agreement with the group seeking to sell recreational marijuana at a site in East Watertown. The agreement is with Natural Selection, also known as NS AJO Holdings, which has already been approved to sell medical marijuana from the site at 23 Elm St. The location is behind the Residence Inn by Marriott and across the street from the Watertown Mall parking lot. The agreement applies to sales of recreational marijuana, which is also called adult-use marijuana. It puts into place fees to be paid by the dispensary to the Town to cover services, such as police, fire and permitting.

Cunniff School

School Officials Detail Reasons for MCAS Improvement, Areas of Concern

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Watertown Middle School teachers and staff have a plan in place to raise the MCAS scores at the school after a poor performance in 2018. Monday night, the School Committee heard about the strategies being used in the Watertown Schools that led to improvements for the town’s schools on the 2019 MCAS test. The Watertown Schools have made an effort to use data to drive lessons and to address weaknesses in classrooms and even for individual students, said Theresa McGuinness, the district’s Assistant Superintendent for Teaching, Learning & Assessment. “Student performance data is used to identify areas of strength and areas of opportunity, as a district, grade level, cohort and individual in English Language Arts (ELA), mathematics, and science,” McGuinness said. She added that the MCAS data is used in conjunction with other assessment tools used in the Watertown Schools.

Development

Second Meeting Planned for 85 Walnut St. Project, Discussion Will Include Traffic Report

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An overhead illustration of the proposed redevelopment of the Doble Engineering site at 85 Walnut St. in Watertown. The second Community Meeting will be held for a project proposed on Walnut Street, which would create space for a life science building, a garage and a public park. The project would redevelop the former Doble Engineering site, 85 Walnut St., and put up a four story, 213,500 sq. ft.

Arrests

Police Log: Driver Spits at Woman, Man Confronts Bank Worker on Street

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The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Arrests

Oct. 8, 5:04 p.m.: A man headed into the power tool section at Home Depot, took several power tools and placed them into a cart. The man then pushed the cart out the door without paying. He was stopped by security, who found eight power tools worth a total of $2,012.

Real Estate

Three Watertown Homes Were Sold This Week

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Two condos and Cape were sold in Watertown. $480,000 – 290 Pleasant St. Unit 313, 2 room, 1 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, Loft condo/townhouse

$640,000 – 559 Main St., 6 room, 3 bedroom, 2 full & 1 half bathroom, Cape single-family home

$710,000 – 117 Irving St. Unit 117, 8 room, 4 bedroom, 2 full & 1 half bathroom, Townhouse condo/townhouse

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Schools

Public Will Have Multiple Chances to Give Input on WHS Construction Project

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Watertown’s School Building Committee has begun looking at the high school renovation/rebuilding project, and the public will have multiple chances to weigh in, beginning in November. The first public meeting about the Watertown High School project will be held Nov. 19 at a time and place to be announced, Town Council President Mark Sideris announced at Wednesday’s School Building Committee meeting. The School Building Committee learned that the process for the WHS project will be different from the one used for the three elementary schools — the other half of Watertown Public School’s Building for the Future. The high school project is part of the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) program, which has many requirements and deadlines to meet.

Real Estate

A Wide Variety of Open Houses in Watertown This Week

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Check out all the open houses in Watertown this weekend. $739,000 – 6 Belknap Ter., 7 room, 3 bedroom, 1 full & 1 half bathroom, Colonial single-family home, Open House: Sunday 12-2

$549,000 – 105 Holt St., 6 room, 3 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, Colonial single-family home, Open Houses: Saturday 11:30-1 Sunday 11:30-1

$549,000 – 91 Spring St. Unit B, 6 room, 2 bedroom, 2 full & 1 half bathroom, Townhouse condo/townhouse, Open Houses: Saturday 2-3:30 Sunday 2-3:30

$1,100,000 – 49 Chester St., 7 room, 4 bedroom, 2 full & 1 half bathroom, Colonial single-family home, Open Houses: Saturday 11-12:30 Sunday 1-3

$599,000 – 56 Putnam St. Unit 1, 10 room, 3 bedroom, 2 full & 1 half bathroom, condo/townhouse, Open House: Sunday 2-3

$565,000 – 118 Hillside Road Unit 118, 7 room, 2 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, 2/3 Family condo/townhouse, Open House: Saturday 2-3:30

$629,000 – 14 Maplewood St. Unit 14, 9 room, 4 bedroom, 2 full bathroom, 2/3 Family condo/townhouse, Open House: Sunday 11:30-1

$636,500 – 199 Coolidge Ave.