Arrests

Police Log: Man Arrested on Third OUI Charge, Fire Starts in Basement of Home

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The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Arrests
Feb. 1, 4:17 p.m.: A woman was stopped in Target after she was seen concealing items in her shopping carriage and then tried to leave the store without paying. She said she was planning to return the items but did not make an attempt to do so. The woman had 63 items of clothing, boots, cosmetics and an ice tea that, combined, were worth $1,187.60.

Community Preservation Committee

Council Subcommittee Crafting Rules for Appointing Community Preservation Committee

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{Updated Feb. 11, 2018 at 9:50 a.m., the method for appointing the statutorily required members of the Community Preservation Committee was corrected to be by the other members of the board on which they serve.}

The process for how the at-large members of the Watertown Community Preservation Committee has been hashed out by the Town Council’s Rules & Ordinances Committee over the past year, and a final recommendation will soon be going to the full Council for consideration. Five members of the CPC are mandated by the state Community Preservation Act law, and communities can add at-large members. Watertown’s CPC will have four at-large members. The Rules & Ordinances Committee has discussed this in prior meetings, and they sent it to the full Council for an opinion on who should appoint the four members.

Real Estate

Watertown Open Houses: A Cape, a Duplex, a Bungalow & More

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Check out the wide variety of open houses around Watertown this week. $650,000 – 10 Merrifield Ave., 7 room, 3 bed, 1 bath bungalow, Open Houses: Saturday 11:30-12:30 Sunday 1-2

$849,900 – 133-135 Maplewood St., 2 unit, 13 total room, 6 total bedroom, Open Houses: Saturday 12:30-2 Sunday 12:30-2

$629,000 – 67-69 Palfrey Unit 2, 7 room, 3 bed, 1 bath low-rise, Open House: Sunday 12-2

$599,000 – 67-69 Palfrey Unit 1, 6 room, 2 bed, 1 bath low-rise, Open House: Sunday 12-2

$629,0009 – 11 Dunton Unit 2, 7 room, 3 bed, 1 bath half duplex, Open House: Sunday 12-2

$480,000 – 612 Main St., 4 room, 2 bed, 1 bath cape, Open Houses: Saturday 2:15-3:45 Sunday 2:15-3:45

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$949,000 – 29-31 Hillcrest Cir., 2 unit, 15 total room, 4 total bedroom 2 family, Open Houses: Saturday 12-1:30 Sunday 12-1:30

$879,000 – 56 Putnam St., 3 unit, 14 total room, 5 total bedroom 3 family, Open Houses: Saturday 12-2:30 Sunday 12-2:30

$879,900 – 144 Winsor Ave., 6 room, 4 bed, 2.5 bath gambrel/dutch, Open Houses: Saturday 9-11 Sunday 9-11

$689,000 – 25 Capitol St., 8 room, 5 bed, 1.5 bath colonial, Open House: Sunday 12-1:30

$641,000 – 49 Bradford Road Unit 1, 6 room, 2 bed, 2 bath 2/3 family, Open House: Saturday 12-2 Sunday 12-2

Schools

School Committee Takes Lowell Site Out of Play for High School Spot, Approves Early Childhood Center

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The Lowell Elementary School site will not be considered as a possible location for a new Watertown High School, and the School Committee endorsed the idea of building a central location for the district’s preschool and pre-kindergarten programs.

The vote came Monday night, a week after the board discussed those two items during a public meeting. The decisions needed to be made so architects hired by the district can begin planning the renovation or rebuilding of Watertown’s three elementary schools. Also Monday night, the School Committee approved a peak capacity for the elementary schools when the building project is complete. Lowell Site
Last week, architects from Ai3 gave a presentation about the possibility of using the Lowell site – including the playground area – for a new high school building. 

“Ai3 did a great job in its memo and it’s presentation to us explaining why the site would not work – the site itself, the size of the site and the slope,” said Town Council President and School Committee member Mark Sideris. Architects said the site would be smaller than recommended for a high school and the property slopes significantly, making it difficult to build a school without having many level changes.

Kevin Russo

WHS Sports: Raiders Claim 2 Individual League Track Titles, Wrestling Coach Wins No. 400

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Watertown High School had some outstanding individual performances at the Middlesex League Indoor Track Championships in Boston this week. Senior Emily Koufos won the 2-mile run in a time of 11:28.01, more than 12.5 seconds ahead of the second place runner. The League Meet was the first time Koufos ran that distance competitvely. In her career Koufos has also won 800, the mile and in cross country. On the boys side, junior Mange Camara won the 300 meters by nearly a second.

Drug Bust

Police Arrest Two Men in Watertown Drug Bust

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Two men face drug charges and a woman was arrested on unrelated charges after a drug investigation in Watertown. On the afternoon of Jan. 30, Police working with the Suburban Middlesex County Drug Task Force observed what they believed to be a drug deal in a vehicle at the corner of Pilgrim Road and Acton Street. They had received a tip of drug activity in the area, said Watertown Police Sgt. Thomas Grady.

Schools

WHS Students Team Building Robot from Scratch for Annual FIRST Robotics Competition

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Four nights a week and on weekends, a group of Watertown High School students work intensely bolting pieces of metal frame together, wiring electrical circuits and even sewing fabric. These members of the WHS Robotics Team have been working on their entry to the 2018 FIRST Robotics Competition for the past month and only have a few weeks left to finish their creation. During the build season the Robotics Team, also known as the KwarQs, has six and a half weeks to build a robot from scratch to take part in the competition. Each year the goal of the game is different, so the robot must be able to perform different tasks. This year’s competition, called FIRST Power Up!, is designed to be like a video game, with robots from three schools teaming up to compete against a trio of other robots.