Community Preservation Act (CPA) proponents have a short window to catch their breath following a Town Meeting victory before jumping back into the thick of it. Town Meeting approved Article 9 in a landslide 132-21 vote earlier this month, but that was just the first step in the journey to
If you are an aspiring writer, the Winchester Public Library is where you want to be on Thursday when author Tess Gerritsen will be on hand to talk about her life as a bestselling author. The May 16 talk is part of The Friends of the Winchester Public Library’s
Plans for the fourth annual Porchfest are well underway, but there is still one thing that is needed. “We need more porches,” said Gina Altaras, the performer liaison for PorchFest 2024. PorchFest will strike up the bands on June 8, from noon-5:30 p.m. Rain date will be Sunday,
Soon after Lauren Tiedemann and Jillian Hartline met they discovered they both had a long held dream to open an independent bookstore – what they didn’t know was that in less than a year that dream would come true. “We were thinking we’d have a five-year plan,” Tiedemann said.
Just in case there are any concerns as residents prepare to head into the Spring Town Meeting Monday, the town does have a balanced budget. “Our [Fiscal Year 2025] budget is structurally balanced, just as My Linh Trulong balanced last year’s budget,” said Finance Committee Chair John Miller, referring
Local businesses can now recycle in town after the Select Board set a commercial recycling fee at $155 per ton. “This would be a break-even rate for the town,” said Transfer Station Coordinator Nicholas Parlee in a memo to the board. The rate will only run through June 30, ending
When it comes to the Lynch School project, Pond Street residents are perplexed and concerned their voices are not being heard. School Committee Chair Tom Hopcroft told the Select Board last week that when Town Meeting voted in 2023 to appropriate $400,000 aimed at funding engineering services associated with
Residents who stepped out to do their public duty and vote last week also got a chance to check out the first public airing of the town’s Downtown Improvement Project. Addressing three areas, Main Street, Quill Rotary and the triangle south of the Post Office, Kathleen Ogden Fasser, senior
When Town Manager Beth Rudolph announced last week that two open positions on the Conservation Commission had been filled, she thanked William Band and Tracy Olson for stepping up. But it turns out Winchester needs more residents to follow suit. Town Hall Administrative Assistant Patty Mihelich said she has a
Four restaurants have been approved for outdoor dining, but the date on which the season will begin came up for debate. The Select Board voted back in December, after a public hearing, that the outdoor dining season would run from April 29 to Oct. 28, but Black Horse Tavern owner
When Paul Manganaro brought an amateur boxing event to Town Hall about seven years ago, Paul Goodrich was in the audience. “And I thought it was a very electric, awesome, fun night and it raised a lot of money,” said Goodrich, who is vice president of the Winchester Sports Foundation.
The short stretch of Church Street posted with temporary no parking signs will now be posted with permanent no parking signs and no one seems to mind. “It’s not often we get no parking proposals that don’t have pushback … because we hear a lot about the lack in
Town Meeting members voted last year to increase water and sewer rates by 6.5% annually through Fiscal Year 2028, but it appears that is not enough. Matt Abrahams, of the Abrahams Group, said that during a Select Board meeting in December 2023, a review of the rate set almost
A plan for a new high school gym floor took another step forward last week when the Select Board unanimously threw its support behind the project. “I fully support this project as I have for several months,” said Select Board Chair Richard Mucci at the Feb. 12 meeting. “It’s
Corrections were made to this story on Feb. 9, 2024. With $960,000 freed up by the Board of Assessors, the Select Board is mulling the best use of the overlay funds and a new gym floor for Winchester High School is high on the list. “The Board of Assessors
The Winchester Center Station Accessibility Improvements Project is on track, but don’t expect it to roll in ahead of schedule. When Select Board member John Fallon asked, during the Feb. 5 meeting, if there were “any truth to the rumors you guys will be done early,” mostly what he
