WATERTOWN â In this, the second Easter of the COVID-19 pandemic, the little campfires of hope have helped to pull us through the difficult times.
On Richards Drive in Watertown, a woman and her church ministry have enlightened the lives of dozens of people the past year through a simple task.
Gail C. Butterfieldâs higher calling involves a Trinity Episcopal Church mission of phoning parishioners on their birthdays and wedding anniversaries to wish them well, as well as to talk about anything else that may come up.
She is, Trinity pastor Rev. Molly Payne-Hardin said, âHope incarnate.â
âGailâs work â person-to-person connection â is at the heart of Easter Sundayâs message,â the Rev. Payne-Hardin said. âBecause God became the person of Christ, died and was resurrected, weâre now able person-to-person to offer that everlasting hope and abiding love to all people. And havenât we all really missed that person-to-person co
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WATERTOWN â A pandemic low point for public school teacher Amanda M. Jackson was when she slipped into her North Elementary classroom at the end of the 2019-20 school year.
The classroom, once full of life with young minds eager to learn, was noticeably silent on the 2020 spring day, more so than her previous end-of-year visits. Like classrooms across the land, instruction in her room had suddenly ended in March of 2020 when a state emergency declaration shut down all schools along with in-person learning.
âI remember coming back in at the end of the year and going through their desks and just feeling sick, like, âIâm not going to see these kids again,ââ said Mrs. Jackson, who has taught fourth grade at North Elementary for 15 years and for two years at H.T. Wiley.
WATERTOWN â Since 2001, the Watertown City School District has inducted 51 individuals into its Distinguished Alumni Hall of Achievement. Nine more inductees were announced Tuesday night.
The hallâs primary objectives are to recognize and celebrate the achievements of Watertown High School graduates by honoring those who have attained a high level of distinction in their lives and provide positive role models for students of the district.
âThe work was very challenging this year, as it always is, and I think thatâs a real testimony to the great accomplishments of all of our alums and I expect many more in many years to come,â said Rande Richardson, Hall of Achievement committee chair and a 1988 Watertown graduate. âWe had an impressive showing of nominations when we were looking at them.â