All-Scholastic

Watertown Girls Basketball Player Named All-Scholastic, Winter All Stars Revealed

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Just a junior, Watertown High School center Shannon Murphy has earned her second All-Scholastic honor this year, as she made the top team of Boston area high schoolers for both the Boston Globe and Boston Herald. 

Murphy and the Raiders fought all the way to the State Final this year before falling to Longmeadow in Springfield. Murphy also made the Middlesex League All-Stars. Verbally committed to play at Holy Cross, Murphy will be back at WHS for one more year. This year she averaged 10 points and 8 rebounds, according to the Globe. The Herald noted that Murphy and a core of seniors helped Watertown’s girls basketball team win its first ever Eastern Mass.

Drug Arrest

Watertown Police Nets Dealer as Part of Drug Force Sting

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A Watertown man faces charges of dealing drugs after he was arrested in a joint investigation by the Watertown Police Department and the Suburban Middlesex County Drug Task Force. On the afternoon of April 5, Watertown Police got a search warrant for an apartment on Winter Street, near the parking lot of the Watertown Free Public Library. Working with the Drug Task Force, police staked out the area of the building, said Watertown Police Lt. James O’Connor. “A vehicle pulled up and entered the lot of the apartment complex. Police observed a man go into building and a short time later walked back to the vehicle,” O’Connor said.

Around Town

Registration Now Open for Boys & Girls Club Summer Programs

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The Watertown Boys & Girls Club has summer camp and swim programs coming up, and you can register now. 

The Boys and Girls Club sent out the following information:

Summer Adventure is a camp program for members ages 7-12 (see the brochure here). The program offers youth a safe environment to build new skills, foster new friendships, learn self-reliance, and become more confident all while having fun and being active in the great outdoors! To register, please fill out the registration form (click here) and drop it off at the Club’s Front Desk along with a $50 deposit to hold your child’s place for each registered week. You must be a Watertown Boys & Girls Club Member to attend. A Summer Membership can be obtained for $10 (valid from 7/1/16 to 8/31/16).

Cunniff School

Schools Looking at Modular Classrooms, Crowding Still Concerns Parents

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School officials do not yet have a concrete plan for dealing with overcrowded classrooms in Watertown next fall, but modular classrooms could be part of the solution. Meanwhile, parents continue to worry about large class sizes or classes being taught in unorthodox spaces. Monday night, the School Committee’s Building and Grounds Subcommittee discussed the short and long term solutions to the space problem in Watertown’s schools at the meeting at the Watertown High School Library. Superintendent Jean Fitzgerald said, looking at the current projections, the schools would be OK, and classes in the three elementary schools would not be overcrowded. The biggest class would be one at Hosmer Elementary School with 24 students.

Around Town

Watertown Photographer’s Book Captures the ‘Aftermath’ of the Boston Marathon Bombings

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Watertown photographer Joshua Touster’s has shot a wide variety of subjects, but his latest project literally came to his doorstep on April 19, 2013 when he found his hometown was the center of a manhunt for the terrorist who bombed the Boston Marathon. The book, “Aftermath: The Boston Marathon Bombings” features scenes from Watertown during the lockdown, photos from the scene of the shootout, commemorations and memorials, the 2014 and 2015 Marathons and the 2013 Red Sox World Series Championship Parade. Touster, who has an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, has shot all kinds of events and people. He spent seven weeks on tour with Michael Jackson, captured seasons of the New England Patriots, L.A. Lakers and Boston Red Sox, and documented the Occupy movement and the world of horse racing at Suffolk Downs and Saratoga Race Track. “I don’t just sit in a chair thinking of projects.

Schools

Watertown Musicians, Young and Old, Perform at MusicFest

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Music permeated the halls of Watertown Middle School Friday night during the fifth annual MusicFest. Each year, the Friends of Watertown Music gives local musicians the chance to showcase their musical talent, and this year, more than 50 acts took part in the festivities. The event raises money for Friends of Watertown Music, a group of volunteer parents and friends of the music program established in the summer of 2011 to raise the funds necessary to maintain and sustain the music programs in the Watertown Public Schools. While many performers were students in the Watertown Public Schools, the event drew outside groups, Watertown music teachers and other groups from the community. Attendees could choose from four stages – from the small one in the WMS art room to the large stage of the Middle School Auditorium.

Police/Fire

Police Log: Hit-and-Run Driver Arrested on OUI, Employee Caught Taking Money

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The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Arrests
March 29, 4:45 p.m.: Police received a report of a hit-and-run accident on Common Street after a car struck a parked car on the hill section of the road. The vehicle was last seen heading southbound toward Watertown Square. It was located on Katherine Road and the officer spotted heavy front-end damage and fluids leaking from the car. During and interview, the officer detected an odor of alcohol on the breath of the driver, and conducted field sobriety tests.