The Winchester Health Department is offering free Narcan kits. Residents can pick them up anonymously.
The kits can save lives that could be lost to opioid or fentanyl overdoses.
Each kit contains: 2 Narcan nasal spray, Fentayl test strips, substance use and mental health help lines and resources.
For more information, email healthdept@winchester.us or call 781-721-7121.
Winchester will collect roughly $80,000 more in net state aid than town officials budgeted, a rounding error against the roughly $5 million structural gap the town’s failed override was meant to close. The governor signed the state budget on July 9 as the Legislature adopted it, without vetoes
The following was submitted by the Winchester Artists Network: Art in August is coming! For over 20 years, Winchester businesses and artists have collaborated to turn the downtown area into an arts colony during the month of August. This festival will open soon for the summer of 2026: all artists
Select Board accepts outside support spanning water-quality work, youth substance-use prevention, air monitoring, summer concerts, older-adult transportation, police accounts, tennis courts and Town Common seating
Campaign finance filings in the five-way Democratic race show who banked a reserve, who out-raised the incumbents and who is betting on each candidate before the Sept. 1 vote
The following was submitted by Abundant Housing Massachusetts: Abundant Housing Massachusetts (AHMA) has announced its endorsement of Cambridge Vice-Mayor Burhan Azeem for state Senate representing Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, and Winchester. Founded in 2020 to advocate for the creation of abundant housing for all, AHMA works to develop and support
Our stalwart columnist Steve Coronella would be grateful if moonlighting MDs stuck to their day jobs
Winchester will collect roughly $80,000 more in net state aid than town officials budgeted, a rounding error against the roughly $5 million structural gap the town’s failed override was meant to close. The governor signed the state budget on July 9 as the Legislature adopted it, without vetoes
The following was submitted by the Office of Rep. Michael S. Day: Rep. Michael S. Day recently joined his colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass H.5562, An Act relative to economic development in the Commonwealth, a $561 million economic development bond bill that strengthens key innovation sectors,
