Sports

Watertown Youth Softball Starts Summer Season With a Win

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Watertown Youth Softball plays year ’round, and the girls of summer started the latest season with a win. In first game of the summer, Watertown won a barn burner 15-14 over Waltham with the help of a grand slam hit by Haley Bass. The girls play their home games at the Lowell Field. They have a combined 28 games to play vs towns such as: Wakefield, Lynnfield, Stoneham, Newton, Charlestown, Lincoln-Sudbury, Medford, Woburn, Reading, Cambridge, Waltham, Lexington, Winchester, Billerica, and Acton-Boxboro. A complete schedule can be viewed at www.wybb.org. Come on out and cheer for the girls!

Police/Fire

Man Wanted for Series of Flashing Incidents Arrested in Watertown

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Watertown Police arrested a man who allegedly exposed himself to women numerous times at bus stops in the area. 

A woman alerted police that the man was sitting at a bus stop on Arsenal Street, said Watertown Police Lt. Michael Lawn. “Power were approached by a woman who said there was a male party at the bus stop and had exposed himself numerous times in the past and is at the bust stop,” Lawn said. When officers approached the man, he began to walk away, Lawn said. They finally stopped him and found that he had warrants from Waltham District Court for six counts of indecent exposure, Lawn said. Laurie F. Galusha, 75, of Hyde Park, was arrested on the warrants and for one count of open and gross lewdness for a prior incident in Watertown, Lawn said.

Entertainment

Head to the Mall for a Drive-In Movie This Summer

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Get the family in the car and head over to the Arsenal Project in Watertown for a pair of free drive-in movies this summer. 

The mall will screen “Happy Feet” on Tuesday, July 21 and “Grease” on Tuesday Aug. 18. Rain dates will be the following Tuesday. Look for the big screen in The Arsenal Project front parking lot. Free activities and fun for kids start at 6:30 p.m., and popcorn, treats and more will be available.

Around Town

Mount Auburn Hospital Wins Award for its Stroke Care

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Mount Auburn Hospital has been honored for its stroke care by a national organization. 

Mount Auburn Hospital has received the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold-Plus, Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for the treatment of stroke patients, according to an announcement from the hospital. Get With The Guidelines-Stroke helps hospital teams provide the most current, research-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. Mount Auburn Hospital earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a set level for a designated time period. These measures include aggressive use of medications and risk-reduction therapies aimed at reducing death and disability and improving the lives of stroke patients. “Mount Auburn Hospital is dedicated to improving the quality of stroke care and The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke helps us to achieve that goal,” said Jeanette Clough, President and CEO of Mount Auburn Hospital.

Food

Watertown Company’s Birch Lemonade Dazzles on Debut

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Watertown-based Botanical Springs got off to a good start with their products featuring birch sap before they even put their products on the market. The company’s birch sap lemonade won first place at a birch sap and syrup conference. 

The company, started in December 2014 by friends and business partners Francesco Capaldi and Mikal McCalmont. They use maple and birch sap which they harvest from trees in Maine. Along with the first place birch lemonade, Botanical Springs got second place in the birch water category at the first International Birch Sap and Syrup Conference held at Paul Smith’s College in New York, and co-sponsored by the Cornell University Cooperative Extension School. The winning lemonade was a mixture of infused birch sap, cucumber, watermelon, fresh wild mint grown in Capaldi’s mother’s garden and local honey.

Around Town

Watertown Resident Competing in Fenway Frank Recipe Competition

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A Watertown man’s recipe for the “Next Fenway Frank” has been chosen as a finalist in a contest where the winner’s creation will be on the menu at Red Sox games the rest of the season. Chelsea-based Kayem, maker of Fenway Franks, hosts a contest every year calling for the “Next Fenway Frank,” in which entrants create an original Fenway Frank recipe. The winner gets their recipe on the menu at Fenway Park for the rest of the season. New for this year, the recipe will also be served at participating 99 Restaurants, according to the announcement from Kayem. Kayem has narrowed down all the entries to five finalists and the public in now voting to pick the winner.

Obituaries

OBIT: Phillip Pane, Served in Watertown Government for 65 Years

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Phillip Pane of Watertown, who dedicated 65 years to the town government and took part in many community groups, died on June 28. Pane is the beloved husband of the late Edythe (Fairbanks) Pane. Devoted father of Philip A. Pane and wife Janet of Harwich, James A. Pane and wife Linda of Stoughton and Ann Marie Cook and husband Richard of Belmont. Also survived by his 10 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Brother of Edith Noyes of Walpole and the late Rose Natale, Aurora and Anthony Pane.

Development

Mixed Reactions to Hotel Proposed for Eastside of Watertown

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The Zoning Board of Appeals heard a split view of the hotel proposed to be built on Elm Street, with most of the those opposing the project living on or near the East Watertown street. The five-story hotel which would have more than 100 rooms would go right next to the back of Target in the Watertown Mall. The layout of the hotel on the property has changed so at the building now sits near the street, instead of having a parking lot in front. Also, some of the parking has been put underneath the building. Also part of the project would be removal of contaminated soil from the site, which used to be home to Atlantic Battery Company and had been a hazardous site monitored by the state Department of Environmental Protection.