Watertown News (https://www.watertownmanews.com/page/258/)
Watertown hired a new Veterans Services Officer, who is a Navy and Army National Guard veteran with experience in frontline medical care, and most recently worked in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Veterans Services. See the announcement from the City of Watertown, below.
Several polling places in Watertown will be moving to a new location for the 2025 Watertown Election. City Councilors had concerns about how voters will know where to go to vote.
Watertown City Manager George Proakis.
City Manager George Proakis received a high rating from the City Council in his annual review for Fiscal Year 2025, though members of the Council had some constructive criticism, too.
A Watertown trash bin. (Photo by Charlie Breitrose)
The strike by union employees working at Republic Services has ended as the two sides announced an agreement on Friday.
The following information was provided by the Watertown Recreation Department:
The City of Watertown is interested in repurposing the court space at Filippello Park to include 6 new pickleball courts. Attend this meeting to share your thoughts, and to learn about the proposal and timeline.
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.
Watertown Public School music students perform at Bandarama. Those in high school take a trip to New York every two years.
The School Committee approved a field trip for Watertown High School music students to spend a weekend in New York, but had concerns about the price and making sure that all students can participate.
The following announcement was provided by the Friends of Watertown Music:
Friends of Watertown Music invites you to attend our 11th Annual MusicFest, on Friday, March 15, 2024, from 5:30 to 9:00 pm, at the Watertown Middle School.
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!
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.
Fifteen students from Watertown earned academic honors for the Fall 2023 semester from Regis College, James Madison University, Nichols College, University of Alabama, University of Rhode Island, Boston University and Lasell University.
