If you've been in the greater Bangor area and noticed a lot of strange activity (lots of vehicles, film equipment, folks in costume) there's a reason for that.
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Two hundred Watertown residents, age 75 and up, were able to get the COVID-19 vaccine in their hometown on Feb. 10. The Watertown Health Department received 200 doses of the Moderna vaccine from the state and will be getting more each week and will notify residents when about the clinics.
The clinic on Feb. 10 was held in the community room of the Watertown Police station between 12:30 and 4 p.m. There were four vaccination stations staffed by volunteer nurses from universities or through the Medical Reserve Corps. Twenty-four residents were waitlisted, according to Public Health Nurse Wil VanDinter.
Long time Watertown resident Kelley MacDonald was very pleased with how convenient and easy it was for her and her husband to sign up.
Phil Greenough
Forty years ago, the Board of Directors of the Watertown Boys Club made the decision to welcome girls into the club, making Watertown among the nation’s first communities to offer membership to females.
In 1980, clubs across the country were open only to boys, and the national organization of Boys Clubs was still 10 years from renaming itself Boys and Girls Clubs of America. The Watertown Boys Club, founded eight years earlier in 1972, had a female director who wasn’t about to wait to bring girls into the club.
Bernadette Corbett, who died earlier this year, was one of the club’s founders and the first woman board president. She was the force behind including female members. At the Boys Club headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut, where the first club was founded in 1860 by three women, she made the case with national leadership to include girls.