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School bus fees will rise $200 for students who don’t qualify for the mandated busing areas of town in the 2026-27 school year. School officials will also look at purchasing its own buses, which would be electric.
Bob Hall won the Boston Marathon’s first wheelchair division race in 1975.
Bob Hall, a Watertown resident and trailblazing wheelchair athlete and advocate for access, died at the age of 74. A private funeral service will be held at a later date, and visiting hours were held at Nardone Funeral Home on April 16.
Photo by Charlie BreitroseWatertown City Hall
Despite uncertain economic times, Watertown’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget will maintain the City’s program and staffing from the current year, but keeps staffing “headcount neutral.” The City will be in better shape than many communities in the area, City Manager George Proakis told the City Council on Tuesday night.
Following the detention of a Watertown man by federal immigration enforcement agents on April 10, School and City officials discussed actions being taken or planned by local officials.
During the week of May 27-30, 2025, the removal of the bases for the old MBTA electric bus wires will continue, beginning at School Lane. There will be no work on Monday, May 26 in observance of Memorial Day. See more details provided by the City of Watertown.
Seven condos, two townhouses, a single family and a two family house were sold this week.
Watertown has two new places to grab a drink and something to eat, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. One is a pub in the West End, and the other is the newest location for a local brewery and the newest addition to Arsenal Yards.
James DeMarco grew up in Watertown and became a goaltender at age 5. It’s his life’s passion to stand between the pipes and keep the puck out of the net.
Tia Tison, Executive Director of the Watertown Community Foundation and WCF Co-President Lauren Coughlin Unsworth push a cart of food into the Watertown Food Pantry. (Courtesy of the Watertown Community Foundation)
The two food pantries in Watertown received a special delivery of supplies courtesy of donations made by the Watertown community during the Watertown Community Foundation’s Food Drive.
The 2025 Watertown Memorial Day Parade will take place on Monday, May 26 beginning at noon. The route begins at City Hall and ends at Victory Field with a ceremony. See who will be marching in this year’s parade
The following announcement was provided by Watertown Citizens for Peace Justice & the Environment:
The Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice & the Environment, Working Group for Peace & Common Security is hosting a panel discussion entitled “Concerned Jewish Faculty Speak Out On Palestine, Israel & Resistance” at the First Parish Church on Wednesday, May 28th at 7 p.m.
Eastern Massachusetts will experience a stretch of unusually chilly, gray, and windswept weather to close out May, as a late-season Nor’easter rolls through southern New England. While rain tapers by Friday morning, scattered showers linger through Saturday under a stubborn upper-level trough. By Sunday, skies begin to brighten, temperatures slowly rebound, and a drier, more seasonable pattern takes hold just in time for Memorial Day. Next week starts with sunshine, crisp mornings, and gradually warming afternoons, though a few damp periods from passing showers remain possible. A week that starts with coastal flooding ends with backyard barbecue potential, offering a little something for everyone this holiday weekend.