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Watertown, Massachusetts. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Middlesex. Associated ZIP codes: 02471, 02472, 02477.
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Voters in Watertown headed to the polls to mark their ballots on the last day to vote early for the midterm elections in Massachusetts
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The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts is outraged that a "vandal" recently put a traffic cone on a Virgin Mary statue in Brighton, which is a Scottish...
Another Massachusetts community is showing its opposition to Israel's actions in Gaza as Cambridge City Council passed a proposal to divest its money from th...
The city’s public-facing tracker shows nearly 250 housing projects in various stages of development.
A prominent Massachusetts Institute of Technology biology professor forced out of his job over sexual harassment allegations won a defamation case against hi...
Police are investigating after a person was shot late Wednesday in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A person was found shot Tuesday afternoon near a Cambridge, Massachusetts, athletic field, police said.
A man accused of sexually assaulting two women inside a Cambridge, MA, Planet Fitness last week was already a convicted sex offender, according to a review o...
Body camera video shows a man getting out of his car and pointing a gun at police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before officers shot and killed him.
As Massachusetts cities and towns grapple with a public backlash to surveillance technology, one city is moving toward a unique new model for public feedback.
A third man has been arrested in connection with the murder of an off-duty Cambridge, Massachusetts, Department of Public Works employee on the Fourth of July.
Thomas Joseph Swenson, the former Marine who helped stop the Memorial Drive shooting spree in Cambridge, has received the Sweeney Award for his live-saving a...
An MIT assistant professor who sustained injuries from an Aug. 21 bicycle collision with a motor vehicle died Wednesday following nearly two weeks at Massach...
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At just 19 years old, Democratic representative-elect Daniel Darris-O’Connor will be one of the youngest representatives in Massachusetts state history.
A New Bedford soldier who went missing during World War II has been identified and will be buried in Massachusetts on the 82nd anniversary of his disappearance.
Masis Staffing Solutions said it is partnering with Elgen Staffing, a Cresskill-based staffing firm specializing in direct-hire recruiting.
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Watertown is in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
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02471, 02472, 02477
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At just 19 years old, Democratic representative-elect Daniel Darris-O’Connor will be one of the youngest representatives in Massachusetts state history.
A New Bedford soldier who went missing during World War II has been identified and will be buried in Massachusetts on the 82nd anniversary of his disappearance.
Masis Staffing Solutions said it is partnering with Elgen Staffing, a Cresskill-based staffing firm specializing in direct-hire recruiting.
Archaeological evidence shows that people lived in the Watertown area for thousands of years. In the early 1600s the Massachusett had at least two important settlements on the Charles River, Nonantum in present Newton and Pequossette, "where the narrows open out," near today's Watertown Square, and they built a fishing weir at Pequossette, at the site of the present Watertown Dam, to catch the herring that still swim upriver every spring.
Watertown, first known as Saltonstall Plantation, was one of the earliest Massachusetts Bay Colony settlements, founded in early 1630 by settlers led by Richard Saltonstall and George Phillips and incorporated that year. Its first buildings stood at what is now Gerry's Landing in Cambridge, and for its first quarter century it was second only to Boston in population and area. Its territory was later reduced as land went to Cambridge and to the new towns of Weston in 1712, Waltham in 1738, Lincoln in 1754 and Belmont in 1859. In 1632 Watertown residents protested being made to pay a tax for a stockade at Cambridge, described as the first protest in America against taxation without representation, which led to representative government in the colony. The first gristmill in the colony was built there about 1632 and one of the first woolen mills in America in 1662, and by the late 17th century Watertown was New England's chief horse and cattle market, known for its fertile gardens and fine estates. Sources Wikipedia: Watertown, Massachusetts
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