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Watertown field hockey coach Eileen Donahue will be featured in a piece on WCVB Channel 5 on Oct. 2. SportCenter 5 anchor Mike Lynch will talk to Donahue about the Raider’s record breaking winning streak for the High 5 feature during the 11 p.m. newscast on Thursday, Oct. 2. NewsCenter 5’s High report is a weekly report highlighting the outstanding achievements of high school scholar-athletes.
A Boston art gallery will show a set of plates created by two Watertown artists who were inspired to make the commemorative plates after being in the shelter in place while authorities searched for the second Boston Marathon Bombing suspect. The Miller Yezerski Gallery, 460 Harrison Ave. in Boston, will show Mike Mandel & Chantal Zakari’s “Shelter in Plates” from Oct. 3 to Nov. 4, and an opening reception will be held on Friday Oct.
Thousands turned out for the 15th annual Faire on the Square on a hot and sunny day in Watertown.
Music, dancing groups and clowns and kept the attendees entertained on Saturday. Hungry patrons could choose from a wide variety of stands or from a fleet of food trucks. Community groups, businesses and non-profit organizations had plenty of free balloons, garb and more. Many beat the heat in the shade of the trees around the park next to Town Hall. Did you make it to the Faire?
Having heard from the public about the proposed renovation of the track area of Victory Field, the Town Council has asked for revisions and will hold a meeting to discuss the project soon. At Monday’s Town Council meeting Town Council President Mark Sideris announced the next steps for Phase 2 of the Victory Field renovation. The proposed project includes replacement of the grass with artificial turf, a new track, resurfacing the tennis courts and the tot lot, addition of lights to the track and replacement lights on the courts. Also, a multi-use court would be added where basketball and street hockey could be played, and a new parking area would be created. Sideris said he and other councilors attended the two public meetings and heard the input from residents.
The Watertown Free Public Library’s latest endeavor will provide residents with a place to learn how to use equipment and technology to create their own crafts and other projects. Dubbed HATCH, the WPFL’s makerspace will open in the Arsenal Project in October, said Assistant Library Director Caitlin Browne. “It will be an exploratory space where people can play with (equipment), and other’s will have the opportunity to learn from people who have experience using it,” Browne said. Equipment will be added over time, but HATCH will begin with a 3-D printer, sewing machines, a screen printing press, a variety of electronics to experiment with, and a variety of crafting supplies. One of the items that will be available will be Arduino, which are small microprocessors that can be programed to do different things.
What used to be a dingy wall overlooking a small parking lot, now beams with color from a mural painted by Watertown teens over the summer. On Sunday, Sept. 21, a group came to dedicate “Tapestry of Cultures,” which is on the side of the a building along Baptist Walk. Alan Dana, whose grandfather and great uncle bought the building in the 1910s, said the mural is a big improvement. “It was a blank wall and it had some graffiti,” Dana said.
Watertown wound up near the top of the best places to live in New England list made by Movoto.com. Coming in at third in the Top 10 Best Places in New England, the list noted Watertown’s historic and cultural amenities and low crime and unemployment rates. The food offerings at restaurants and markets in town were also pluses in the town’s favor. The criteria examined were amenities, quality of life, crime, tax rate, unemployment, commute time and weather. See the entire list by clicking here.
Well over 100 people made their voices heard during a volatile meeting about the proposal to renovate the track area of Victory Field. Many opposed the project, but the project had its strong supporters, too. The Phase II project calls for adding more parking, installing a multi-use court that can be used for hockey and installing a new track. The items that seem to cause the most controversy include replacing the grass inside the track with artificial turf and the addition of lights around the track (See more details on the Recreation Department’s proposal here). Glenn Howard, project architect with CDM, said the artificial turf would allow the field to be used earlier in the fall and earlier in the spring as well as later at night.