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Athenahealth will hold the second community meeting about its Campus Master Plan on Thursday, Jan. 14. and the presentation of the latest plans has been released. The meeting will be held on the athenahealth campus, 321 Arenal St., in the Blakeway Auditorium inside Building 311 at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 14. Use garage and enter through the main South entrance in the middle of Building 311.
Sometime in January, Boston College hockey coach Jerry York will get his 1,000th win as a college hockey coach.
The man who grew up in Watertown and still calls the town home was featured in a long piece in the Boston Herald this week. He already has the most wins of any college hockey coach, and Boston College remains one of the best teams in the country, currently ranked No. 4. While he spent years at Clarkson and Bowling Green, York is best known for his time at the Heights, where he also attended college and played hockey. What is the key to his success? The Herald’s Ron Borges writes that it is his ability to live in the present.
Raider Times reporters have produced two recent stories that have been featured on a site that highlights the best high school journalism from across the country. In November, Watertown High School’s Rebecca Grossman chronicled the efforts of WHS science teacher Jennifer MacDonald to cut back on the number of one-use cups from places like Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks. MacDonald, who teaches AP environmental science and is the mentor for the high school’s Environmental Club, banned single-use cups from her class. At the same time, the school has put in water fountain that has a spigot to fill water bottles. Grossman reports that the new fountain had saved about 7,000 bottles by early November.
Watertown-native Lauren Kelly’s hockey abilities led her to be recruited by Div. I program Northeastern, where she has become a big part of the Huskies defense. Kelly attended the Winchendon School, where she played ice hockey, soccer and softball. Now a sophomore, Kelly has become a playmaker for the Huskies, with 10 assists in 18 games for an improving Northeastern women’s hockey team. The Boston Globe interviewed Kelly, who said she benefited as a young player by competing with her sister Erika, who was better known as a Watertown field hockey star.
The first significant snowfall of the winter will impact Tuesday morning’s commute.
The Watertown area will receive more than an inch of snow before it turns to rain. Much of the snowfall will occur overnight, and the storm will change to rain between 9 and 11 a.m., according to the National Weather Service forecast. Snowfall further North and West will be 1-3 inches and the northern part of the state and New Hampshire could get up to 6 inches, according to WHDH Channel 7. The high will be 39 degrees on Tuesday.
This spring, the New Repertory Theatre will host a Spotlight Symposium called “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? An Evening with Cartoonist Roz Chast. The New Yorker Cartoonist and author will be at the Arsenal Center for the Arts on Monday, April 11, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in the Charles Mosesian Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St. Chast will be speaking about her memoir as it relates to the theme of New Rep’s National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere production of Steve Yockey’s Blackberry Winter, which premiers March 26-April 17, 2016. “New Rep is pleased to host celebrated cartoonist and humorist Roz Chast for this special Spotlight Symposium,” says Artistic Director, Jim Petosa.
See the five homes that sold this week in Watertown. $775,000 – 28 Prentiss St. Unit 28, 7 room, 4 bedroom, 3 full & 1 half bathroom, Townhouse condo/townhouse
$740,000 – 37 Quirk St. Unit 37, 8 room, 3 bedroom, 2 full & 1 half bathroom, Townhouse condo/townhouse
$395,000 – 10 Howe St. Unit 10, 5 room, 2 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, 2/3 Family condo/townhouse
Sponsored by:
$465,000 – 11 Broadway St.
The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Arrests
Dec. 16, 11:26 p.m.: Police received a report of a car leaving the scene of an accident on Orchard Street and was driving erratically. A witness saw a red Honda with damage weaving around, and it may have hit a fire hydrant. The car pulled into a driveway on Warren Street.