Schools

Middle School Holding Forum About Safety on Campus After List of Students Found

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Watertown Middle School

Watertown Public School officials and the Watertown Police appear at a meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 6 p.m. for the Watertown Middle School Community following the discovery of a list of students created by a WMS student. School officials said they have assessed the situation and determined there was no credible threat, but some parents remain concerned for the safety of their children and have questions about how the school handled the situation.

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LETTER: Trees Need to be Protected in Watertown

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To the Editor:

Ghost tree

Your fifty foot tall, towering presence would have held snow on your strong, healthy boughs today.

Mourning doves would have stood on the boughs near your trunk for protection from the wind, their winter coats puffed up cozy among your pine needle feathers.

Mother tree, so many miss you today.

Rabbits’ secret shelter under boughs at your trunk, no longer here to offer a safe place to laugh at my barking dog.

Chickadee, junco, winter birds who would rest on your branches when hawk was distracted elsewhere. They waited for me to fill the tube with seed to sustain them in this small piece of forest in city.

Last week their home here was dismembered and cut to the ground. Fifty feet of beloved protector ground up and disappeared.

Ghost tree, how can I explain to you?Someone didn’t like your position.

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Tonight: Health and Human Services Community Forum

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The following announcement was provided by the City of Watertown:

This is a reminder about the Health & Human Services Community Forum happening on Monday, January 29, 2024 in the Watertown Free Public Library! This event will begin at 6:00pm and all residents are encouraged to attend and participate!

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Feast on Art Exhibit at Mosesian Center for the Arts Focusing on Food

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Judy Haberl’s Baby Cakes 5 is part of the Mosesian Center for the Arts exhibit “Feast: Food Represented in the Visual Arts.” (Courtesy of MCA)

The following announcement was provided buy the Mosesian Center for the Arts:

The Mosesian Center for the Arts is excited to present an exhibition that finds inspiration in food. Depictions of food have been around since antiquity. In mosaics and frescos from Roman times, wine, fruit, bread, and grains have been depicted in private houses and temples. In later centuries, paintings portraying both religious and secular themes often incorporated food and drinks.