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Joyce Westner | Staff Writer

How well do you know Winchester?

How well do you know Winchester?

Latest in the series.  Retired photographer Frank Siteman has taken photos of places downtown, and your job is to guess where they were taken.  If you know the answer, send an email to editor@winchesternews.org and put How well in the subject line.   Last time we had four winners.

How well do you know Winchester?

How well do you know Winchester?

Latest in the series.  Retired photographer Frank Siteman has taken photos of places downtown, and your job is to guess where they were taken.  If you know the answer, send an email to editor@winchesternews.org and put How well in the subject line.   Last time we had NO winners.

Winchester News seeks volunteer technical help

Winchester News seeks volunteer technical help

Winchester News is run with great energy and a small team but we’re hoping someone in our community would be willing to be a technical backup. Areas include the publication platform (ghost.io) technical configuration, adding new accounts for authors, domain registration, email and file server configuration and support.

Residents encouraged to adopt a storm drain

Residents encouraged to adopt a storm drain

There are so many ways to volunteer in Winchester, but one of the easiest jobs is to adopt a storm drain.  A program started in many communities throughout the country, it encourages residents to clean the area around a storm drain near their house so that rainwater and snow melt

Nymph statuette stolen from bike trail

Nymph statuette stolen from bike trail

A small sculpture of a nymph was taken from its granite base last week. The little maiden was part of a 4-foot-high statue on Mt. Vernon Street, across from Town Hall where the bike trail heads towards the high school.  Cynthia Randall, a member of the Winchester Cultural District Managing

How well do you know Winchester?

How well do you know Winchester?

Latest in the series.  Retired photographer Frank Siteman has taken photos of places downtown, and your job is to guess where they were taken.  If you know the answer, send an email to editor@winchesternews.org and put How well in the subject line.   Last time we had only one

How well do you know Winchester?

How well do you know Winchester?

Latest in the series.  Retired photographer Frank Siteman has taken photos of places downtown, and your job is to guess where they were taken.  If you know the answer, send an email to editor@winchesternews.org and put How well in the subject line.   Last week we had several winners.

How well do you know Winchester?

How well do you know Winchester?

By Joyce Westner  Jan. 11, 2024 (revised to include three accurate guessers)  Latest in the series.  Retired photographer Frank Siteman has taken photos of places downtown, and your job is to guess where they were taken.  If you know the answer, send an email to editor@winchesternews.org and put

Helpers among us — collecting for the homeless

Helpers among us — collecting for the homeless

Second in a series of articles about residents helping those in need. By Joyce Westner | Winchester News Staff Writer Jan 11, 2024 On a cold, clear Wednesday evening, Mary Carroll Monteiro and her husband Fred loaded their truck with clothing donated by Winchester residents. They stopped to pick up a

Planning Board refines MBTA zones

It was a busy night for the Planning Board Tuesday night with the Waterfield design, affordable housing and state zoning on the agenda. The board voted to remove one area from the state-required rezoning near MBTA stations.  Planner Taylor Herman told the board Jan. 9 the discussion would be limited

News hires Editor Nell Coakley

News hires Editor Nell Coakley

By Joyce Westner Jan. 4, 2024  Thanks to generous donations from the community, Winchester News has hired Nell Escobar Coakley as part-time editor.  A Malden resident, Coakley is already familiar with Winchester, having been a reporter for the Winchester Town Crier, a newspaper started by Bill Cummings back in the

How well do you know Winchester?

How well do you know Winchester?

By Joyce Westner  Jan. 4, 2024  Third in the series.  Retired photographer Frank Siteman has taken photos of places downtown, and your job is to guess where they were taken.  Send an email to editor@winchesternews.org if you know the answer.  Last week we had two winners--George Wood and

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