By Joyce Westner July 15, 2023. Updated on July 17. The body of a 17-year-old boy was pulled from six feet of water in Mystic Lake this evening. According to State Police, he was swimming with a group of people several yards outside the swimming area when they noticed he
By Joyce Westner July 11, 2023. Updated on July 12. Once again, the state is warning people not to swim in the Upper Mystic Lake’s Shannon Beach, due to a “bacterial exceedance.” The popular beach, with a newly rebuilt bath house, is Winchester’s only public swimming place but
By Joyce Westner July 11, 2023. Residents are invited to donate their used electronic equipment and electric appliances plus old bicycles at St. Eulalia’s 50 Ridge Street parking lot at this Saturday. They’ll be collected for a minimal fee by Green Day Recycling, a company in central Massachusetts
By Joyce Westner July 10, 2023. Although “shovels were already in the ground,” when the new town engineer was hired recently, Matt Shuman is optimistic that the intersection at Wildwood St. and Woodside Rd. will do a good job of calming traffic. Residents complain on the Winchester Residents Facebook page
By Joyce Westner July 10, 2023. Patrons were startled to hear that The Fuller Cup, the Thompson Street bakery and sandwich shop, will be closing as of this Friday. Owner Laura Fuller sent an email to her followers in which she wrote, “I find myself at a crossroads. This is
By Joyce Westner July 9, 2023. Back by popular demand, both the town’s and Wright-Locke Farm’s evening musical events start this week. The farm offered “Family Farm Night” concerts in the years leading up to Covid, and last year reservations were required to avoid a big crowd. This
By Joyce Westner The Rev. Paul Clifford arrived this week as pastor of the new collaboration between St. Mary’s and St. Eulalia’s Roman Catholic Churches. The Boston Archdiocese started combining its nearly 300 parishes in 2012 into about 135 collaboratives led by one pastor. Under the plan, each
By Joyce Westner July 3, 2023. New lawn signs will be springing up soon, even though it’s not election season yet. A group of concerned citizens in and around Winchester are planning to install “Say NO to rat poison” signs to raise awareness of the problem of dead bald
By Joyce Westner July 4, 2023. Thanks to a grant from the Winchester Cultural Council, seven local artists are starting to paint some of the downtown utility boxes, the refrigerator-sized metal containers that hold traffic light controls and cable and electrical connections. Arlington and Lexington folks have been painting their
By: Joyce Westner Winchester News Public Meeting a Success The Winchester News Group (WNG) hosted a public meeting at the library and via Zoom to discuss plans for a new town news outlet. WNG President Tara Hughes told the attendees that WNG has incorporated and is ready to fundraise. Calling
