Around Town

Registration Open for Watertown Boys & Girls Club Summer Camps

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Registration for Watertown Boys & Girls Club’s Summer Adventure and Summer Swim Camp is now open! Summer Adventure is a camp program for children ages 7-12 (those older than age 12 should ask about the Junior Camp Leader option). The program offers youth a safe environment to build new skills, learn self-reliance, and become more confident all while having fun and being active in the great outdoors! Summer Adventure is held at Camp Hale Reservation in Westwood, MA. Summer Swim Camp is for boys and girls ages 6-12 and is held at Watertown Boys & Girls Club.

Business

Local Moving Company Receives Angie’s List Super Service Award

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Olympia Moving & Storage announced it has earned the home service industry’s coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award, reflecting an exemplary year of customer service to members of the local services marketplace and consumer review site in 2016. Olympia’s Boston area headquarter are located on Bridge Street in Watertown. This achievement is particularly significant as Angie’s List experienced unprecedented member growth in 2016. More than 1.6 million consumers, many of whom were eager to quickly hire highly qualified service pros, joined Angie’s List after the company added a new, free membership tier. “Companies that can meet higher demands without missing a beat in their exemplary performance standards truly do stand apart from their peers,” said Angie’s List Founder Angie Hicks.

Schools

Watertown Students Take Part in Biotech Event at Northeastern

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On Wednesday, March 8  and Thursday, March 9, 190 Massachusetts high school students participated in Biotech Futures, an event held at Northeastern University and organized by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation (MassBioEd). Biotech Futures is a college and career exploration event that exposes students to the educational opportunities and diverse fields of study in the life sciences at the college level though hands-on laboratory experiences and campus tours. Biotech Futures is a component of MassBioEd’s BioTeach program, which provides lab-based training in biotechnology to 150 public high school science teachers each year. “At Biotech Futures events, students see the connection between their BioTeach-inspired lab experiences and exciting collegiate-level science and engineering programs,” said Peter Abair, Executive Director of MassBioEd. “The involvement of faculty and graduate students who share their research and career pathways often makes these experiences transformative for the participating students.

Around Town

Watertown Health Department Hosting Rabies Clinic for Dogs & Cats

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The Watertown Health Department will sponsor a rabies vaccination clinic on Saturday, April 8, 2017 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Watertown Administration Building, 149 Main Street, Lower Level. The cost is $10.00 per animal. Cats will be vaccinated from 1:30-2:30 p.m., and must be brought to the clinic in carriers. Dogs will be vaccinated from 2:30-3:30 p.m and must be on a leash. Rabies vaccinations are required by law for both dogs and cats and are an effective way at preventing the spread of the rabies virus.

Obituaries

OBIT: Georgina Spence, 67, Watertown High Grad, Worked in Payroll for UPS

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A visitation will be held on Thursday March 16th, 2017 in MacDonald Rockwell & MacDonald Funeral Home from 4 to 7 p.m. for Georgina M. Spence. Ms. Spence passed away in Cambridge on Friday morning after a period of declining health. She was the daughter of the late George R. Spence, Sr. & Betty M. Spence (Smith). She was 67. Born in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Georgina moved to Watertown at a young age.

Government

LETTER: Why Watertown Should Not be a Sanctuary City

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I would like to take this opportunity to pass along my thoughts regarding the possibility of making Watertown a sanctuary city. As a lifelong resident of Watertown, I find this suggestion very troubling, totally illegal, and totally unnecessary. I am proud to be a second generation of Italian immigrants who came to make a better life in Watertown. My grandfather came to America in 1909, and the first thing he did was apply for my grandmother to come to this country legally. She was able to join him in 1913, legally, and they began living their dream.

Around Town

Prominent Boston Journalists to Discuss the Role of Media in Democracy

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A panel of journalists from the Boston Globe, NPR and investigative reporters will be in Watertown to discuss the role of the media in the United States today. 

The April 2 event, called “What is the Role of Media in our Democracy,” is sponsored by Progressive Watertown and will take place from 2-4 p.m. in the Watertown Savings Bank room of the Watertown Library. We will be exploring questions related to the role of Media in light of the political attacks on the media by the President. We will ask questions such as how do we filter distortions in the news and how does the media fight false narratives, etc. David King will be the moderator. He is a  Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at The Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Chair of the Masters in Public Administration program.

Around Town

Group Meeting to Discuss Airplane Noise from Logan Airport

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Boston West Fair Skies (BWFS) will hold its next meeting Tuesday, March 28 in Belmont. BWFS works towards redistributing airplane noise more fairly among our communities. We are a citizens grassroots organization which includes Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Medford, Somerville, Watertown and Winchester – all communities affected by the increased airplane noise due to the implementation of 33L RNAV (using GPS) departures at Boston Logan Airport. The meeting location rotates to a different town each month. BWFS is fighting for a more equitable distribution of airplane noise.