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Learn About Video Production at Watertown Cable Workshops

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WCA-TV has exciting news – Spring Workshops are just around the corner! From learning how to edit in Adobe Premiere to hands-on experience with our field cameras, lighting kits, and studio equipment, there is a workshop for everyone! Brand new Orientation Workshops are available on a monthly basis. These workshops will give a brief overview of WCA-TV, our services and offerings, and a basic training on our field cameras, so you’ll be able to check cameras out right away! An Orientation Workshop is required to sign up for subsequent workshops.

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Free Winter Wellness Programs: Yoga, Soup Fest & Fitness

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Community chefs will cook up some tasty meals for Soup Fest. Live Well Watertown announced its upcoming events in February, including free yoga classes, soup fest, and ideas for keeping active. Stress Well 

Vitality Yoga

Practices to Open the Energy Pathways for Total Wellbeing~with Shari Rose

Wednesdays, February 1 through March 8, 2023   12:00 PM – 1:00pmWatertown Free Public Library, Savings Bank Room

There is NO REGISTRATION required. The first 15 people to arrive are guaranteed a spot at that date’s class. 

Bring your mat, water bottle and curiosity! This class draws upon a wide variety of yoga, qigong, and tai chi practices, as well as meditation and breathwork. These practices help you awaken joyful vitality and enjoy a gentle yet invigorating practice to quiet the mind, open the heart center for emotional clarity, and build physical strength and balance. 

~In collaboration with the Watertown Free Public Library

Eat Well Watertown

Annual Soup Fest

Thursday | February 9th | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Watertown Free Public Library, Savings Bank Room Registration is required (see below)

Join us for Eat Well’s Annual Soup Fest event featuring a variety of healthy winter soups!

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Apartment Complex Could be Build Near Watertown on IHOP Site

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A Google Maps screenshot showing the IHOP (the red dot) on Soldiers Field Road in Brighton, on the other side of the Charles River from Squibnocket Park in Watertown. A project with 200 housing units and commercial will be built on that site and the site where a former motel sits. The late-night dining destination on the other side of the Charles River from Watertown may become a complex with residential and commercial space. Universal Hub reports the plans will soon be filed for a residential project on property on Soldiers Field Road in Brighton where the IHOP (1850 Soldiers Field Road) and motel stand. The location sits near where North Beacon Street crosses from Watertown heading east, and converges with Soldiers Field Road, Nonantum Road, and the Birmingham Parkway in a rotary intersection.

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Our History: Miles Pratt — Owned Foundry on Main St., Founded Library

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Miles Pratt (Photo from “Great Little Watertown”)

This is the latest in the series of articles provided by the Historical Society of Watertown. The story was written for the Historical Society’s April 2003 newsletter “The Town Crier” by former Historical Society of Watertown board member Mary Spiers. Mary was our Recording and Corresponding Secretary. Mary retired from the Board in December 2022 but is still a volunteer. MILES PRATT 1825-1882

Miles Pratt was a Watertown industrialist and philanthropist.

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Unity Award Goes to Group Behind Film Series, New Scholarships Announced

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Watertown Cable AccessThe winners of the 2023 Unity Award, Epiteo Evans and Kara Salvi, who founded Race Reels in Watertown. Most years the annual Unity Award goes to an individual who has made a difference in Watertown, but this year the committee gave it to a group that screens films locally that spark conversations about issues facing the community and the nation. On Jan. 9, the pair behind Race Reels, Epiteo Evans and Kara Salvi, received the Unity Award at special event. The pair was also highlighted in the Unity Breakfast video celebration, which was presented by the World in Watertown.

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Group that Sends Care Packages to Military Personnel May be Grounded by Change in Mail Rules

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For 20 years, Operation American Soldier has been sending out a piece of home to men and women serving in the U.S. Military overseas from Watertown, but the pipeline of care packages appears to be coming to a sudden halt with a change in rules for shipping packages to military bases. Co-founder Wendy Rocca recently learned that the flat-rate boxes used to send the care packages will soon no longer be available, and the rates will be much higher. “It was $15.30 (per box) at the Christmas-time rush. It was $14 and change for the rest of the year,” Rocca said. “Now we do not have the flat rate.