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By Daniel Lander
Nine of our neighbors in Allston are violently detained at gunpoint at a carwash. A graduate student is surrounded and kidnapped off the streets of Somerville. A Medford teen snatched anddetained while driving to volleyball practice. A five-year-old with autism used as bait to try to detain her father in Leominster. A 13-year-old abandoned on the sidewalks of Waltham after ICE grabbed the adult they were with.
This year’s Watertown High School musical, “Mamma Mia!” will be performed at the Mosesian Center for the Arts on March 27-29. See more information from WHS, below. Get ready for our highly anticipated spring musical production of Mamma Mia! Please join us on Friday, March 27 or Saturday, March 28, at 7:00 PM or on Sunday, March 29, at 2:00 PM at the Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts!
Paul J. Sullivan Playground
By George DonahueWatertown Resident
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While I wrote this in the spring 2014 when living in Watertown at the Coolidge Apartments, the stories in and around baseball never go out of style. The story was published in the Watertown Tab when I wrote it and I worked in the Clerk’s office in the town hall. The director of the Parks and Recreation at that time came rushing into the Clerk’s office waving the paper in the air asking if I authored the article. I acknowledged that it was me who penned the article, expecting to feel the newspaper bop me off the head, but instead he thrust hand out, said it was a good article and walked out of the clerk’s office. In July of 2025, my wife Jeanne and I returned to Watertown and moved back into the Apartments at the Coolidge School.
The following announcement was provided by Watertown Youth Baseball & Softball:
Watertown Youth Baseball & Softball will hold an equipment sale on March 19 from 7-8:30 p.m. in KidConnect at the Watertown Boys & Girls Club (lower level). Proceeds benefit the WYBB League. Donate your gently used or worn baseball and softball equipment. Recommended items: gloves, cleats, batting gloves, bags/backpacks, pants, belts, and bats. Items must be washed and clean prior to drop off.
Watertown’s Nzuko restaurant will be appearing at the Charles River Chamber’s Spring Seasonings Event. The Charles River Chamber announced the lineup for the 2026 Spring Seasonings event, which spotlights restaurants from Watertown, Newton, Wellesley, and Needham. See which Watertown eateries will be featured at the event in the announcement from the Chamber, below. Watertown’s vibrant restaurant scene will be on full display at Spring Seasonings: A Taste of Our Towns, happening on Monday, April 13, from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Newton Marriott. Hosted by the Charles River Regional Chamber and presented by The Village Bank, the event brings together top culinary talents from across the region.
The Watertown Square Anti-Trump Protest on March 14. (Photo by Joshua Touster)
The following announcement was provided by Indivisible Progressive Watertown:
Get ready for NO KINGS III on Saturday, March 28th which will be a national day of peaceful non-violent resistance to the policies and actions of the Trump administration. Make a plan to be part of the largest day of protest in American History.
Indivisible Progressive Watertown will host a Stand Out in Watertown Square from 10-11:30 a.m. Bring a sign, bring a friend. No Kings Boston will be held on the Boston Common from 1-4 p.m. and will include tabling by different pro-democracy groups and speeches beginning at 2 p.m. Register for a protest, or two, that fits your schedule and location here: https://www.mobilize.us/aft/event/840244/.
For more information about Indivisible, visit: https://indivisible.org/. To join Indivisible Progressive Watertown, write to: indivisibleprogesswatertown@gmail.com
The following announcement was provided by the Helen Robinson Wright Fund:
Tenor soloist David Rivera Bozon, along with pianist Hector Vargas Bonilla, will perform on Saturday, March 21, 7 p.m., at the First Parish of Watertown, 35 Church St. Internationally acclaimed for his many performances in operas and solo recitals, Bozon is well known for his extraordinary talent and warm personality. His performances are extremely engaging, enjoyable, and diverse, featuring a wide variety of languages, composers, and styles. His career has included performances at venues from Bogota, Colombia, to Boston, where he has been met with universal enthusiasm and praise. In Saturday’s concert, his repertoire will include classical melodies, as well as Broadway tunes and popular hits.
Camille DeMarco’s “Ebb and Flow” will be on display at the Mosesian Center for the Arts. Mosesian Center for the Arts will host “Art and Healing,” an art exhibit focused on how art and healing are related. A reception will be held on March 26. See details in the announcement from the MCA, below. At Mosesian Arts artists are exploring the ideas of art and healing as interconnected, and artmaking as a process that can help overcome grief and find joy.