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A look back on how it started and why it’s important and maybe even more relevant today
It was Mandarin lessons, lunch and ping pong when Xuemei Li’s students met their Chinese speaking pen pals for the first time. Natalie Taylor admits she was feeling nervous when she first walked into the Jenks Center to meet one-on-one with a new friend, but it didn’t take
Executive Director of the Network for Social Justice: March is Women’s History Month a time to recognize the incredible contributions of women to history. To mark the occasion, young women from an array of local organizations participated in “Girls Leading Change: Promoting Health and Empowerment,” an event held at
The wind almost carried the tent away during registration, and the rain picked up just as swimmers splashed into the water at Shannon Beach on Upper Mystic Lake Sunday afternoon for the second Swim Winchester Polar Plunge. Organized by Swim Winchester, the March 22 event at the Mystic Lakes drew
It didn’t feel like a big moment at the time. I asked the speaker I had just heard at a conference in early 1990: “Do you offer workshops that are open to the public?” I was struck by his presentation that opened up a new way for me to
he following was submitted by the Winchester Rotary Club: The Winchester Rotary Club invites the community to its Annual Golf Tournament on May 18 at the Winchester Country Club, 468 Mystic St. This popular event brings together local business leaders, residents, and supporters for a day of golf, networking, and
Hundreds of families funneled into Winchester High School on April 2 to look at specimens through microscopes, toy with 3-D modeling on computers and try out pulse oximeters. Science & Engineering Night invited parents and children in grades K-8 to visit the high school and watch 39 demonstrations of what
The following was submitted by the Office of Rep. Michael Day: Rep. Michael S. Day worked with his colleagues in the Massachusetts House of Representatives to pass a $1.8 billion supplemental budget that invests $885 million in public transportation, $417 million in public education and funds several fiscal year
