Week in Review: Fire Damages Home, Lock Your Car Doors

Catch up on the week's top headlines from Watertown Patch:

A two-alarm fire destroyed the roof of a two-family home on Madison Avenue, and caused other damage to the house. Watertown Fire officials determined that the blaze was caused by a plumber's torch. See video from the fire here.

Lock you car doors, Watertown residents! Police have been searching for a thief who has been targeting cars left unlocked overnight. Fourteen cars were broken ins last week. 

Watertown students fared better on MCAS exam in 2012, generally, especially when it counts - in the 10th grade.

The Watertown Historic District Commission will press on with efforts to make the Orchard House propetrty into a historic district. The decision came after officials from the Walker School, which owns the property and runs the Beacon School on the site, offered to delay any efforts to tear down the house for three years.

Watertown Main Street Florist has new owners. See what they have done to the Watertown Square shop.