WATERTOWN — Two crews totaling 22 Boy Scouts and adult leaders from Boy Scout Troop 52 explored the wild and remote Allagash River National Scenic Waterway in Maine in July.
WATERTOWN â Lt. Tim Gavallas of the Watertown Police Department issued a memo to the Town Times this week.
âAlthough thefts occur all year round, with spring and the warmer weather approaching, we expect an increase in crimes of opportunity.Â
âIt is our hope that you donât provide the opportunity for thefts to occur. The easiest way to do this is to lock your vehicles at night and to not leave anything of value in them. Thieves wander neighborhoods looking for unlocked vehicles and when they find them they steal anything they find of value up to and including the vehicle. Do not leave your key or key fob in your vehicle. It does not matter where in town you live, no area is immune from these thieves.
WATERTOWNÂ â As a new year closed in, one era ended and a new one began in the history of the Watertown Police Department. The skies may have been cloudy and the temperature may have been on the chilly side, but the memories and messages of thanks were warm as family, friends, colleagues and state and local officials bade a fond farewell to retiring Police Chief John Gavallas in front of Watertown Police Department headquarters on December 30.
Chief Gavallas, calling it a day after 51 years in law enforcement, a career which began less than one month after the first moon landing in 1969, was the focus of an emotional salute which at times seemed to overwhelm him.