When Wendell Street resident Meg Mehn was looking for ways to give back to the community, she decided to join The Friends of Winchester Library. When asked why, Mehm says, “I used to take my kids to the library every week — it was an important place for them.” They found
The Winchester Community Music School broke ground last week for a new wing, named in honor of the school’s co-founder Corie Nichols. “It’s so amazing to think that when the school opened in 1981, we had 30 students,” Nichols said. “Now we have more than 900!” According to
It’s April 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. Elise Brady says, “Last year’s dry summer and rough winter and bunnies did us in!” Send
When High School Junior Jacob Lieberman was stuck at home during COVID, he enjoyed baking with his mother. “It was a new thing for me,” he says. “We’d bake something different every day.” Five years later, he and his twin sister Mason and their friend Rachel Dunlap had a
This column will take a break for a while. Apparently you know Winchester very well, and nobody is guessing any more. See last week’s photo to refresh your memory. Nobody guessed that it was a photo of a lamp inside China Sky.
Swim Winchester hosted its “Polar Plunge” event on Saturday, April 13, at Mystic Lake’s Shannon Beach. Check out photos by Frank Siteman at the event by clicking on this link:
Library-goers might be surprised to see the return of an old-fashioned card catalog cabinet, and even more surprised to see what it contains. Not cards but garden seeds, the brainchild of Young Adult and Reference Librarian Amanda Gogel. “I started gardening two years ago,” she says, “and I wanted to
If you know the answer, send an email to editor@winchesternews.org and put How well in the subject line. See last week’s photo to refresh your memory. Last week, nobody guessed that Mike Arwe’s photo was a mailbox in back of Lucia. Winchester News is a non-profit
What’s in your gardens this month? Okay, everyone, please submit photos of what’s coming up in your gardens. Send ONE photo as an attachment to editor@winchesternews.org and put “Garden Photo” in the subject line. Tell us what it is, for those of us who don’t
Winchester News members are especially happy to feature Charlie Alexander, a seven-year-old Lincoln School first-grader. He started a newspaper for the Symmes Corner neighborhood. When asked what prompted his project, he said, “I like to read the papers, thought hey, why don’t I start my own?” Charlie’s good
If your shoes don’t get messy when you’re at Manchester Field, it might be thanks to Connie. The 4-year-old border collie runs around and chases the geese away several times a day. “I checked with the town’s Recreation Department and they said it’s OK,” says Manchester
Jessica Jussino is the pet parent of Bailey Blue, a 2 1/2-year-old golden retriever. Bailey is well-known around Winchester. Artie at Fells Ace Hardware was one of her first friends and taught her “paw” when she was only a few months old. She also loves Emi and Jill at
The Winchester Chamber of Commerce has a new associate director — Allison Childs, who has been living in Winchester with her family for several years. “We wanted to be in walking distance of a town center,” she says, having lived in Charlestown. “I love that my daughter can walk to all
Mary New continues to share some of the photos she takes when she walks from her Wolcott Terrace backyard into the Middlesex Fells. Winchester News is a non-profit organization supported by our community. If you appreciate having local Winchester news, please donate to support our work, and subscribe to our
Once again, we’re using a photo by Mike Arwe. Mike is the grand champion of How well, identifying almost every photo since this column started. If you know the answer, send an email to editor@winchesternews.org and put How well in the subject line. Last week we had
When Gerry Dunleavy was growing up near the Cliffs of Mohr in Ireland, he probably never thought he’d be a successful builder in America. But he came to Winchester in 1978 because his job for an electrical engineering company transferred him to the U.S. for work. While visiting
