It’s May and the gardens around Winchester have started to deliver. We asked you to send us photos of whatever is growing in your garden and you sent us quite a few. Please send June photos to editor@winchesternews.org with “garden photo” in the subject line.
PHOTOS CLOCKWISE FROM UPPER LEFT: DAVID MILLER'S LUPINE, GLORIA LEGVOLD'S PINK HORSE CHESTNUT, AUGUST WESTNER'S "APPLE BLOSSOM" RHODODENDRON, DAVID MILLER'S LUPINE, AND WESTNER'S POPPY
There’s never enough time or money to do it right, but there’s always time and money to do it again. This is my interpretation of a favorite quote from the Biggest Little Farm, and it’s the topic for an important discussion about performing work in the garden
The Network for Social Justice and Winchester News are pleased to announce the soft launch of a Resource Guide aimed at providing residents with a current, “one-stop-shop” list of organizations in a variety of areas, from youth support and advocacy groups to legal help, elder care, and mental health resources.
Photos of a transgender Episcopalian chaplain with his cats, a transgender Methodist minister who regularly challenges his own denomination to end discriminatory policies, a same sex couple with their daughters and an openly gay Episcopal Bishop all have three things in common: they are all smiling, they are all part
Winchester High School said goodbye to the Class of 2025 with a time-honored tradition of the Clap Out. The what? “The Clap Out is a long standing tradition that goes back many, many years,” said WHS Principal Dennis Mahoney in an email. “It was traditionally done in our Dining Commons,
Paul Francis O’Brien, 89, passed away on Saturday, June 14, 2025 at Sunrise Living, in Des Peres, Missouri, his home since September 2024, where he had moved from New Hampshire to be near to his son and family. Mr. O’Brien departed after a brief downturn of health. A
If you think there is nothing you can do that will matter when it comes to global issues, like climate change, you need to check in with the Ambrose Elementary School’s Eco & More Club. In late spring, 15 members of the Eco & More Club went before the
The following was submitted by the Office of Sen. Jason Lewis: Sen. Jason Lewis will be holding office hours in Winchester on Monday, July 7, from 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the Winchester Public Library, 80 Washington St. Any Winchester resident is welcome to attend office hours, with no
Dozens of children laughed and played at the brand-new playgrounds at Leonard and McDonald fields on a scorching summer afternoon. For many, the school year had just ended, and the excitement of summer stretched ahead. These vibrant new play spaces offered kids the perfect spot to run, make friends, and
