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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.
The following announcement was provided by the Watertown Free Public Library:
The library that brought you Space Week is landing back on planet earth. May 5-8, the Watertown Free Public Library (WFPL) is hosting its first-ever Fungus Week! Community members of all ages are invited to learn more about our most underrated bio kingdom: fungi!
“Self-Portrait as a Lion,” will be part of the Armenian Museum of America’s exhibit of the art of Varujan Boghosian.
It’s the last weekend in April, and the earlier showers have brought out plenty of flowers already. I don’t have any Friday events, so simply hit the local streets to smell the flowers, view the YardArt and stretch your legs. All day Saturday there is a pottery sale at Indigo Fire Pottery Studio. They have a special discount on Intelligentsia coffee if you buy a vessel to put it in. Saturday evening you can join in the celebration of a new opening at the Armenian Museum of America. Check out this enticing example of the art of artist Varujan Boghosian in this combination portrait and landscape. Sunday afternoon, if the weather looks enticing, enjoy the brilliantly flowering trees at Mount Auburn Cemetery while you learn about the Shakespeare quotes on the gravestones and monuments. One is for the brother of John Wilkes Booth. Also that afternoon is a creative movement workshop with Tiffany Sankary, that looks like it might be good for my stiff upper body. View art, buy art, hear about the ancient art of poetry, and move as art. May the art be with you!
The Watertown Fire Department has requested adding enough paramedics to run a second ambulance. Currently, the Fiscal Year 2026 budget does not include the money for the eight paramedics, but the request will be discussed by a City Council committee.
Greetings Councilors:
Has your residence been subjected to the nonemergency (Click here) CIP Project 2 Sewer Rehabilitation [shut off]? Specifically, on a Holy Day (Good Friday & Passover), when your family is preparing for a weekend religious observance? Well …, welcome to the East End!
The following announcement was provided by Live Well Watertown:
Join us for refreshments and conversation about fostering social and community connections!
The Watertown Boys & Girls Club received a Customer Choice Award. Pictures Kelly Cronin from WSB, the Boys & Girls Club’s Kerry Evans, Gary Beatty, Megan O’Halloran, and WSB CEO Brett Dean).
Watertown Savings Bank recently announced the winners of the annual Customer Choice Awards. See the announcement from the Bank below.
Water service was restored to residents of the East End on Tuesday afternoon several hours after a water main break near Coolidge Square.
“Self-Portrait as a Lion,” is part of the Armenian Museum of America’s exhibit of the art of Varujan Boghosian.
The following announcement was provided by the Armenian Museum of America:
The Armenian Museum of America of Watertown (Boston) recently announced a new exhibition of 45 works by Armenian-American artist Varujan Boghosian. “Fragments of Memory: The Art and Legacy of Varujan Boghosian” offers a rare opportunity to experience the elegant, poetic constructions created by an artist who left a profound mark on the world of contemporary art. Curated by Ryann Casey, the exhibition is sponsored by the Alan and Isabelle Der Kazarian Foundation.