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🌱 Patch AM: Ready for Pequossette? What Watertown parents need to do starting today

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Good morning Watertown! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Ready for Pequossette? What Watertown parents need to do starting today
  • What the China Rainbow closing means for Watertown diners
  • How a Watertown native turned a homeland journey into a novel

Also on today's calendar: Dive In Commonwealth Virtual Information Session and 9 more events.

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Today's riddle: Playing golf is bad for your brain. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

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  • Thursday: Breezy; a morning flurry, with a high of 31 and low of 14 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!
  • Friday: Mostly sunny, brisk and cold, temps: high: 26, low: 19.
  • Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high of 31 and low of 21 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Save The Date: Registration for Pequossette Summer Program Watertown Opens Jan. 1 (watertownmanews.com) — Families in Watertown can start registering today, Jan. 1, for the 2026 Pequossette Summer Program, which features extended camp hours and a new registration system. Resident and non-resident registration dates, deposit amounts, and key program changes are laid out so parents can plan ahead before spots fill up.
   

• Nine restaurants in eastern Mass. that shut down during December (wickedlocal.com) — A longtime Watertown favorite, China Rainbow on North Beacon Street has closed after more than 50 years in business, with the owner thanking loyal customers for decades of support. The article also lists several other eastern Massachusetts restaurants that shut their doors in December, while noting that Not Your Average Joe’s in Watertown remains open.
   

• A Trip to Armenia Inspired Watertown Native's First Novel (watertownmanews.com) — A Watertown-raised author has turned a life-changing 2023 trip to Armenia into his debut novel, while still speaking at the Watertown Free Public Library and other local institutions. Cris Patvakanian, a Watertown High graduate now based in Boston, set “In the Shadow of Mount Khustup” in Armenia’s Syunik region, weaving in local culture and postwar realities as he builds a growing audience at home and abroad.
   

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  • Neighbor’s cat *Bella* accidentally slipped out of the house today, near Pleasant st.
    in Watertown MA, close to the Charles River. If anyone happens to see a similar looking cat on security cameras in the area please let me know. … (Nextdoor Watertown)
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🗞 Nearby News

Belmont

  • Real Estate Transactions for December 1, 2025 to December 12, 2025 (belmontvoice.org)
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  • Girls' hockey notebook: With a seamless line change, Westwood taking another shot at a Division 2 run (bostonglobe.com)

Cambridge

  • In Cambridge, coyotes are just another neighbor (bostonglobe.com)
  • New and improved: These 13 eastern MA restaurants will open in 2026 (wickedlocal.com)
  • A legendary graphic novelist gets the (bio)graphic novel treatment (forward.com)

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