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Tuesday night, the City Council will vote on the water and sewer rates for residents and commercial customers in town. An increase is proposed, but not as much as previously estimated.
An illustration of the plans for the former Mount Auburn Club at 99 Coolidge Ave.
A life science company will relocate from Cambridge to Watertown, and will lease a space on Coolidge Avenue.
Watertown DPWTrash and recycling pickups resumed Monday. Republic Services resumed trash and recycling pickup on Monday, while contract negotiations continue. Residents who have overflowing garbage bins can drop off items at a drop off location.
Watertown DPWWatertown trash and recycling pickup has been uncollected since July 1 when workers at Republic Services went on strike.
Watertown City Manager George Proakis joined several mayors, town managers, and town administrators urging company Republic Services to come to a deal to end the strike that has stopped trash and recycling collection since July 1, 2025. The letter also identifies weaknesses in the company’s response to the situation, including slowness of deploying backup resources and lack of communication. See the letter below.
The Tesla Takedown in Watertown on March 1. (Copyright 2025 Joshua Touster)
A Watertown group will be holding a protest in Watertown on March 29. See the announcement provided by William Beckett.
The Boston Gold Kings need to win one more game to capture the PPSHL Championship after beating the Salem Sasquatch 5-2 on Saturday.
Watertown Middle School will present “Mary Poppins Jr.” on March 28-30. See the information provided by the Watertown Public Schools below.
One of the most pressing ways that our region’s housing shortage affects Watertown is through an acute lack of deed-restricted affordable housing. It’s quite simple: more of these units would help to keep Watertown’s working people in our city. Yet while Watertown’s inclusionary zoning policy ensures that a proportion of each market rate development’s units are set aside as affordable housing, this only chips away at the shortage. What if, instead, there was a way to build more developments that were composed of just workforce and lower income housing?
The Jewish Watertown Action Network will host an event called “De-mystifying the Middle East Conflict: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction” at the Watertown Library. See the announcement from the group below.
The following announcement was provided by the Actors’ Shakespeare Project:
Actors’ Shakespeare Project closes out their blockbuster 2024-25 Season with their first-ever performance at their new home in Watertown, The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts. From April 11 through May 4, ASP will present their latest production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Elliot Norton Award-winning director and ASP Resident Artist Maurice Emmanuel Parent.
(UPDATED: March 24, 10:20 a.m.) The start of the work on Mt. Auburn Street scheduled for this week will be delayed due to weather. It will now begin on March 25, 2025. See the original announcement below:
During the week of March 24-28, the Mt. Auburn Street Project includes drainage work, the relocation of a bus stop in Coolidge Square. See details in the announcement provided by the City of Watertown below.
Four townhouses and a condo were sold in Watertown.