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🌱 Patch AM: How Watertown firefighters kept a Main Street apartment fire from spreading
Be sure to catch Dive In Commonwealth Virtual Information Session on the Watertown Patch calendar
Good morning Watertown! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How Watertown firefighters kept a Main Street apartment fire from spreading
- Watertown’s Armenian community grieves two beloved congregants lost in crash
Also on today's calendar: Dive In Commonwealth Virtual Information Session and 9 more events.
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Today's riddle: The world champion tongue twister just got arrested! 🤔 (Answer below!)
Find out what's happening in Watertownfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
- Tuesday: Some sun; windy and colder, with a high of 26 and low of 20 degrees.
- Wednesday: Breezy and not as cold, temps: high: 33, low: 21.
- Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high of 29 and low of 16 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!
📰 News we're reading
• Firefighters Extinguish Kitchen Fire in Multi-Unity Building on Main Street (watertownmanews.com) — Watertown firefighters quickly knocked down a kitchen fire in a Main Street apartment on Dec. 22, keeping it from spreading to other units and leaving no one injured. Officials say the blaze started in the cooking area and urge residents never to leave cooking unattended, and to evacuate and call 911 if a fire can’t be controlled safely. 
• Watertown Armenian Church Remembers 2 Family Members Killed in Car Crash (watertownmanews.com) — Members of Watertown’s Armenian Memorial Church are mourning longtime congregants Arie Orchanian and his aunt Anie Manoushagian, killed in a car crash after a family funeral. The close-knit family, well known in the community and local schools, is being supported by neighbors and parishioners while investigators have not yet released the cause of the accident.
📸 Around Watertown
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Watertown
★ Featured events ★
- Dive In Commonwealth Virtual Information Session
Virtual,
7:00 pm
Thursday January 8
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Other local events
- Beg 1, Beg 2, Beg 3, Int 1, Int 2, and Advanced Sept-May English Classes
Watertown Free Public Library Offsite Watertown, MA, 02472
6:30 pm - Learn the Laser Cutter
Watertown Free Public Library Hatch Makerspace 20 Summer St, Watertown, MA, 02472
7:00 pm - Sarah & Kathy's Intermediate Conversation class
Watertown Free Public Library Raya Stern Trustees Room (2nd floor) , 123 Main St, Watertown, MA, 02472
9:45 am - Noon Year's Eve
Watertown Free Public Library Children's Program Room , 123 Main St, Watertown, MA, 02472
11:30 am - Doris & Nancy's Beginner 1 and Beginner 3/Intermediate 1 classes
Watertown Free Public Library Watertown Savings Bank Room (1st floor) , 123 Main St, Watertown, MA, 02472
9:00 am - Beg 1, Beg 2, Beg 3, Int 1, Int 2, and Advanced Sept-May English Classes
Watertown Free Public Library Offsite Watertown, MA, 02472
6:30 pm - Crafternoon for Children
Watertown Free Public Library Children's Program Room , 123 Main St, Watertown, MA, 02472
4:00 pm - Abbey's Beginner 1 class
Watertown Free Public Library Lucia Mastrangelo Room (2nd floor) , 123 Main St, Watertown, MA, 02472
4:30 pm - Patty Larkin, John Gorka, Cliff Eberhardt and Lucy Kaplansky
7 Medford St , Arlington
7:30 pm - Open House - Family ACCESS Learning Center
492 Waltham St, West Newton, MA, 02465
10:00 am - Sarasa Ensemble Presents 'Patron Lobkowitz'
Follen Church , 755 Massachusetts Ave , Lexington
3:30 pm
Tuesday December 30
Wednesday December 31
Thursday January 1
Friday January 2
Saturday January 10
Sunday January 11
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
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🗞 Nearby News
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