Charity

Pair of Watertown Residents Attend Camp Champions Celebration at Fenway

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Two Watertown residents attended the The American Camp Association, New England’s (ACA New England) Sixth Annual Camp Champions Celebration at Fenway Park recently. William Ford and Marjorie Goode were on hand for the celebration that recognized several campers who have received the gift of camp (camperships) through previous Camp Champions fundraising events. The celebration raises funds for ACA New England’s Campership Fund which helps send children in need to camp. The Camp Champions named by ACA New England in previous years have included Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter, Lisa Loeb (2015), camp philanthropist, Anna Gould (2014), actress and activist, Eliza Dushku (2013), former Mayor of Boston, Thomas M. Menino (2012) and June & Eliot Tatelman (2011).

Police/Fire

Police Log: Man Busted for 3rd OUI, Three Generators Stolen from Store

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The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. 
Arrests
Nov. 12, 3:05 p.m.: A samaritan called police to report a possible drunk driver on Howard Street. The person followed the car and, when police arrived, pointed thev vehicle out. Police found the vehicle parked and the driver asleep at the wheel. Officers woke the man and they smelled a strong odor of alcohol.

Sports

Watertown Wins Thriller to Capture Eighth Straight Field Hockey State Title

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WORCESTER – The Raiders found themselves in an unfamiliar spot with just under 11 minutes left in Saturday’s state final – tied and with momentum on the side of their opponents – but Watertown’s senior co-captain Kourtney Kennedy made the game changing play and the team lifted the Div. 2 Field Hockey State Championship trophy for the eighth straight time. 

Watertown High School’s field hockey team seemed to have a solid lead, up 3-1 early in the second half of the state final at WPI, but a feisty Oakmont team battled back with two goals making it anyone’s game. Along with an aggressive attack, the Spartans’ defense focused on Kennedy, and kept her largely hemmed for the majority of the game. Six minutes after the score was tied, Kennedy found space in the middle of the circle and blasted home the winning goal late in the 4-3 win. “Initially I thought, just get the ball in the circle, and then I saw I could get past another girl and then I knew I could get that shot off,” Kennedy said.

Field Hockey

LIVE: Watertown Beats Oakmont in the Field Hockey State Final

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After facing Auburn the past few years in the Div. 2 field hockey State Final, Watertown will have a different foe – Oakmont. Those who have have followed the Raiders over the years will recall, however, that Oakmont has been Watertown’s opponent in the final in the past. The last time the two teams met, 2012, the Raiders won 1-0. The previous year, Watertown came away with the 3-1 victory.

Addiction

Katherine Clark Applauds Watertown for Work to Stop Epidemic of Opiates

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The effort to stop the epidemic of opioid and heroin addiction across the country has led to some strange allies, Congresswoman Katherine Clark said Thursday night, but local efforts like the one in Watertown are just as important as bills passed in Washington. 

Clark spoke at Watertown Middle School during the Erase the Stigma event hosted by W.A.T.E.R.town (Watertown Access to Treatment, Educations and Resources) Task Force on Substance Use Disorder. Addiction to opiates, which often begins with using prescription painkillers, has touched all demographics, Clark said, and even the youngest. “At Melrose-Wakefield Hospital, a small community hospital, 5 percent of the babies born are dependent (on opiates),” Clark said. This led her to sponsor legislation to to help opioid-exposed infants in 2015, and she got some help from across the aisle. “The co-sponsor was (Senate Majority Leader and Republican) Mitch McConnell,” Clark said.

Real Estate

See This Week’s Open Houses Around Watertown

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Here are the properties holding open houses around Watertown this week. $625,000 -125 Coolidge Ave. Unit 104, 4 room, 2 bed, 2 bath low-rise, Open Houses: Saturday 10:30-11:30, Sunday 12-1:30

$1,385,000 – 100 Russell Ave., 15 room, 5 bed, 3.5 bath victorian, Open Houses: Saturday 12-2 Sunday 12-2

$499,900 – 3 Repton Cir. Unit 3104, 4 room, 2 bed, 2f 0h bath mid-rise, Open Houses: Saturday 12:30-2 Sunday 12:30-2

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$615,000 – 145 Waverley Ave. Unit 145, 6 room, 3 bed, 2.5 bath townhouse, Open House: Sunday 12:30-2

$879,900 – 111 Watertown St.

Police/Fire

Uber Driver Arrested After Yelling at, Refusing to Cooperate with Police

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Two Uber customers had a less than satisfactory ride when their driver was arrested after he yelled at police and refused to cooperate when he was pulled over, last week. On Nov. 11, at 1:15 a.m., an officer patrolling on in Watertown Square ran a routine registration check on a vehicle heading westbound on Main Street. Records showed that the owner of the vehicle, Glenn Gaines, had a suspended license, said Watertown Police Lt. James O’Connor. “When the officer got to the car there were three people in the car, and the driver was an Uber driver,” O’Connor said.