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05/11/2024

WATERTOWN - There will be a memorial Mass said for Brendan Rogowski on Sunday, May 26, at 11 a.m. in St John the Evangelist Church, 524 Main St., Watertown, requested by his family.

05/08/2024

When the band Ultraviolet takes the stage at Watertown's Jameson Pub tonight, May 9, they will be demonstrating the wisdom of the adage, you've got to shoot your shot. The four-member band from New Jersey will be opening for national recording act Plush, which was just through the area as an open

05/05/2024

WATERTOWN - The town may get a little scary if a business owner receives approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission to move his popular outdoor haunted Halloween attraction from Goshen to a 20.5-acre parcel on Middlebury Road.And while commissioners were generally receptive to the spooky conce

05/01/2024

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04/25/2024

WATERTOWN -- Firefighters battled a large blaze involving pallets of water bottle Thursday morning at the Crystal Rock water facility on Buckingham street, fire officials said. Officials say 100 pallets of large, plastic water cooler bottles and a dumpster were heavily evolved. The fire was cont

04/24/2024

HUSKIES & ICE CREAMThe UConn Dairy Bar and Bear's Smokehouse are teaming up for a Sunday Fun Day.On Sunday, Bear's Smokehouse in Hartford will host an Ice Cream Social. Patrons can enjoy Bear's barbecue cuisine as well as the UConn Dairy Bar ice cream.UConn athletes from a variety of sports will

04/19/2024

WATERTOWN - Despite the impassioned pleas from a couple dozen residents and members of the Board of Education at an April 11 hearing, the Town Council approved sending the 2024-25 budget to referendum without restoring an $800,000 cut from the school budget.The council, at its regular meeting, appro

04/19/2024

WATERTOWN - Despite the impassioned pleas from a couple dozen residents and members of the Board of Education at an April 11 hearing, the Town Council approved sending the 2024-25 budget to referendum without restoring an $800,000 cut from the school budget.The council, at its regular meeting, appro

04/14/2024

WATERTOWN - Claiming the town has paid the price for years of austerity, resident Jeffrey Desmarais at a hearing Thursday implored the Town Council to restore the $1.6 million in cuts from the proposed 2024-25 budget.Desmarais said the cost of everything has increased, something that's been particul

04/11/2024

The American Mural Project, 90 Whiting St., Winsted presents the fourth performance of the Happy Hour Piano Series on April 26 at 5 p.m. with pianist T.J. Thompson, who will perform blues, soul and jazz in the mural gallery. Thompson has performed with Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead and was a featured

04/10/2024

CHESHIRE - The solar eclipse was not the only celestial-theme event to pass through town Monday. Sun, Moon & Stars, an autism awareness organization based in Watertown, came to the Cheshire High School baseball field for an Autism Awareness Month fundraiser. The nonprofit, run by president

04/08/2024

04/06/2024

While reports of Friday's earthquake peppered social media, the Watertown History Page by Charlie Crowell on Facebook offered this look back at an earthquake-related moment at Union Station, now the Republican-American building, in 1940. According to Crowell's post, an earthquake struck on Dec. 2

03/27/2024

Nicolina Gereski of Watertown earned a place on Furman University's dean's list. Furman's dean's list is composed of full-time undergraduate students who earn a grade point average of 3.4 or higher on a 4-point system. Gereski's parents and/or guardians are Duane Gereski and Kelly Gereski.

03/27/2024

The Leo Club at Watertown High School collected new socks to distributed to the area's homeless.

03/22/2024

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03/20/2024

SOUTHINGTON — Watertown and Oxford high schools were presented Spirit of Inclusion awards for their multiseason Unified Sports programs during the 2024 Special Olympics Connecticut awards dinner Tuesday night at Aqua Turf. Both schools have earned a reputation for their year-round commitment of i

03/20/2024

WATERTOWN - The community continues to support a local family after a March 4 fire at their Guernseytown Road home took the lives of three dogs and left three others with serious injuries.Kimber and Gunner, both Chechnyan shepherds, and Dakota, a husky mix, all were in their crates at the time of th

03/17/2024

Watertown native Barry Hughson has been named executive director of American Ballet Theatre in New York City, effective July 1. Hughson, who received his childhood ballet training locally from Sharon Dante and Donna Bonasera at the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts and the Connecticut Dance Theatr

03/15/2024

WATERTOWN - Trinity Terraces, formerly known as Watertown Convalarium, has begun the process of closing after the 46-bed facility went into receivership in January due to insolvency. A Hartford Superior Court judge Monday ordered the nursing home at 560 Woodbury Road to close permanently and disc

03/13/2024

On Sunday, the pipers will be piping and the drummers will be drumming. The Police Pipes and Drums of Waterbury will embark on its annual St. Patrick's Day pub tour, stopping at various venues through the day to entertain revelers. https://vimeo.com/923089778?share=copy The schedule 11

03/13/2024

The Watertown Lions Club donated $1,000 to the Oakville-Watertown Ecumenical Council to be used by people in need to heat their homes this winter.

03/06/2024

Union Congregational Church of Oakville held its annual meeting on Jan. 29 after its regular church service. Each officer, board and committee submitted written reports covering the year 2022. The church will continue its support of the Brian Gibbons Homeless Outreach Program, Greater Waterbur

02/28/2024

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02/27/2024

WATERTOWN -- The Watertown History Museum is offering the Florence T. Crowell 2024 scholarship available to high school seniors. This scholarship will grant one graduating high school senior who resides in Watertown or Oakville a $500 award to be used towards a college or university. The deadl

02/27/2024

WATERTOWN -- A Watertown man was arrested Sunday after allegedly threatening his neighbor with a handgun, then barricading himself inside his home during a standoff with police. Martin Oliver, 48, of 45 Cobb Street, was finally taken into custody several hours after Watertown police first respond

02/22/2024

WATERTOWN - Watertown High School senior Aryana Nascimento is inviting girls to say "yes" to the dress, or in this case 300 dresses she has collected and plans to give away to any prom attendee who might be struggling with the high cost of the annual spring event.Tickets cost $90 per person and dres