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Properties keep selling in Watertown. This week a single family home sold this week in Watertown. $439,000 – 50 Charles St., 6 room, 3 bedroom, 1 full & 1 half bathroom, Ranch single-family home
$345,000 – 57 Pierce Road Unit 57, 5 room, 2 bedroom, 1 full bathroom, Townhouse condo/townhouse
$511,000 – 183 Lexington St., 2 unit, 9 total room, 3 total bedroom, 2 Family – 2 Units Up/Down multi-family home
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The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Arrests
Sept. 14, 6:16 p.m.: Target stopped a couple who was shoplifting. They were seen taking items off the shelf and put them in the woman’s pocketbook and into a target shopping bag. They stopped the man, but a woman with a baby carriage fled the store and was last seen heading westbound on Arsenal Street.
Watertown quarterback Deon Smith used his legs to lead the Raiders to a win over Wakefield in the Middlesex League opener, Friday night. The junior ran for 183 yards, including a 93-yard touchdown run in the third quarter at Wakefield. That came after a 32-yard scamper for a TD in the first quarter, according to the Boston Globe box score. Conner Kennelly accounted for the rest of the scoring with two field goals and two extra points. The Raiders held off a fourth quarter rally, beating Wakefield 20-14.
The town recently released a drawing of plans to renovate the entrance to Filippello Park, but proponents of a dog park did not like one feature – the size of the dog park. The entrance off Grove Street will be renovated after the Watertown Recycling Center moved from there to the westside of town. In December, the Public Works subcommittee voted to place the second town-run dog park at Filippello Park. The first one was built at How Park on Pleasant Street. At Tuesday’s Town Council meeting Deb Whitman, a member of the Watertown Dog Park Task Force expressed her discontent with the proposal.
A Funeral Home Service will be celebrated on Monday, Sept. 23, 2015 in the MacDonald, Rockwell & MacDonald Funeral Home, Watertown for Elizabeth C. “Bette” (Murphy) Perry. Mrs. Perry passed away in the Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge on Wednesday morning after a lengthy period of declining health. A daughter of the late Raymond and Elizabeth (McLaughlin) Murphy. She was 92 years old.
The big town celebration – the Faire on the Square – will be held Saturday, Sept. 26, but that is not the only community event going on over the weekend. On Saturday, the Watertown Police Department will host a Community Blood Drive from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Community Room on the first floor of the Watertown Police Station, 552 Main St. For an appointment, call 1-800 RED CROSS (733-2767) or go to redcrossblood.org. Also at the Police Station, the Watertown Police will take part in the Drug Enforcement Agency’s National Drug Take Back Day.
A townhouse with a price tag of more than $1 million is one of the new properties up for sale in Watertown. $469,000 – 22 Waltham St., 7 room, 3 bed, 1.5 bath colonial, Open Houses: Friday 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Sunday 12-1:30 p.m.
$979,000 – 222 Main St. Unit 222, 8 room, 5 bed, 2.5 bath townhouse, Open House: Sunday 1-3:30 p.m.
$1,095,000 – 224 Main Street Unit 224, 7 room, 4 bed, 3 bath townhouse, Open House: Sunday 1-3:30 p.m.
$309,000 – 131 Coolidge Ave. Unit 522, 4 room, 1 bed, 1 bath high-rise, Open House: Saturday 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
$385,000- 127 Highland Ave., 6 room, 2 bed, 2 bath colonial, Open House: Sunday 12-1:30 p.m.
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$575,0000 – 65 Morse St. Unit 65, 6 room, 3 bed, 2.5 bath townhouse, Open Houses: Saturday 12-2 p.m. Sunday 12:45-2:30 p.m.
$575,000 – 65 Morse St.
{Updated Feb. 16, 2018 at 4:43 p.m.}
A slideshow showing people posing with buddies, graduating or holding a young baby seems like it represents the good times, however, each photo shown at Wednseday’s candlelight vigil had two dates – the year of birth and year of death. Each picture showed someone lost to heroin and other opiates.
Hundreds of people packed the lower hall at St. Patrick’s Church for the first Candlelight Memorial Vigil organized by Watertown residents committed to stopping the opiate crisis in town. Many watched the slideshow with tears streaming down their faces, remembering love ones they had lost. Recovering addict Pete Airasian, founder of Watertown Overcoming Addiction, and Wendy Clark Morrissey, who lost her brother to heroin, had the idea to hold the vigil.