Elm Street resident Jay Sullivan has not only taken many photographs over the years, but he has digitally enhanced many of them, some to turn into more interesting pictures, but others just for fun. Sullivan earned an MFA in painting from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and
It’s August and gardens around Winchester continue to deliver. We asked you to send us photos of whatever is growing in your garden and here they are. Send photos as an attachment to editor@winchesternews.org and put “Garden Photo” in the subject line. Tell us what it is,
Software company developer Pam Reeve, now retired, spends a lot of time helping — and her particular focus at the moment is helping the Boston Arts Academy Foundation do its fund-raising for the public school. The Boston Arts Academy’s goal is to raise $2.5 million. The Swan Street resident
Lisa Kalner Williams claims some of Facebook’s Everything Is Free Winchester items, but not for herself. The Hillside Avenue resident picks up clothing and school supplies for MAMAS, a Somerville organization that has their Free Store twice a year. Originally, they only had clothes, but Williams convinced them to
Winchester music artist Rachel Sumner and her trio (Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light) won this year’s Telluride Bluegrass Band Contest. “We’re a scrappy do-it-yourself kind of band,” Sumner says. Originally from California, Sumner came to the area 14 years ago to attend Berklee College of Music – and never
Winchester includes fewer than 3% of Blacks, but as local NAACP members point out, “The association is open to everyone, not just to Black folks.” Patty Shepherd says the Mystic Valley branch of the National Association for Colored People “has been around since the 1940s — it’s one of the
It’s July and a few gardens around Winchester continue to deliver. We asked you to send us photos of whatever is growing in your garden and here they are. Send photos as an attachment to editor@winchesternews.org and put “Garden Photo” in the subject line. Tell us what
Winchester artist Kiyomi Yatsuhashi credits her mother as her inspiration. She uses shibori, the traditional Japanese tie-dye technique, to paint on fabric. “My grandfather was antiques trader in Boston, and worked with the Museum of Fine Arts. I grew up with all the arts and culture in my home,” she
Amrita Mondal does classical Indian dance and she’s using her connections in the dance world to raise money for The Bridge Recovery Center which helps folks affected by a substance abuse disorder. The 16-year-old Winchester High School rising junior is coordinating an Indian dance and music charity festival in
There’s a new print publication in Winchester, produced by several members of Ashley Shie Semones-Howe’s family. She calls it “148 Neighborhood Reporter” after the family’s home address. It has a print run of two — one that Ashley keeps in a folder, and one that her children can
Four McCall Middle School eighth-graders talked to Winchester News before the end of school about how they collected toiletry articles for homeless shelters. Isabella Bickford, Anna Dedeke, Sonia Kneiss and Lily Werner were looking for items, including sunscreen and menstrual products, which they put into 20 backpacks, according to Lily.
After spending 30 years as a graphic designer, Kristine Kamikawa got “tired of being at a PC all day,” so five years ago she took a painting class at Rubini Art. “I loved it!” she exclaims during a recent interview. Kamikawa says she sold some of her work at a
It’s June and a few gardens around Winchester continue to deliver. We asked you to send us photos of whatever is growing in your garden and here they are. Send ONE photo as an attachment to editor@winchesternews.org and put “Garden Photo” in the subject line. Tell us
Perhaps Lyra should be the Winchester News Pet of the Week — she’s a therapy dog and she shares the Helpers Among Us category with her owner, Frank Siteman. He says he knew Lyra would make a good therapy dog. “Lyra’s behaviors are consistent with what a therapy animal
Award-willing collage artist John Williams says he’s mostly self-taught. “I started making sculptures in Play-Doh when I was 4 years old,” he says. His mother, Kathleen Piggott, describes them as “fanciful creatures — and yet, so real.” When they lived in Bedford, Williams was in his school’s gifted art
Last month three students who participate in Winchester’s A Better Chance program decided to go to Guatemala as part of a School of the World program. Joel Aryee, Danry Njawa and Eyitayo (Tayo) Owolabi mixed cement, painted the outside of a school building and created two murals. “Last year
