Winchester signs off on $17 million borrowing package for housing, water and school projects
Some expenses are moving through temporary notes, while larger capital costs are being placed into a longer repayment schedule.
Will Dowd | Staff Writer
Marblehead author Eric Jay Dolin reconstructs a shipwreck that waited 20 years for him
Eric Jay Dolin would rather ask the questions. He describes himself as an introvert, someone who keeps a conversation pointed away from himself and listens more than he talks. It is a strange temperament for a man who will spend much of this summer on stages — by his own count,
For America’s 250th, Winchester residents can find fireworks just next door
Town has no confirmed fireworks show this year, but families have nearby options in Arlington, Lexington, Wakefield, Somerville and Boston, with several displays tied to the nation’s 250th anniversary.
State aid reaches Winchester as officials press for broader fiscal tools
Winchester’s state legislative delegation came to the Select Board meeting with a stack of good news — a 6.1% increase in school aid, earmarks for roads, drainage and public safety, and several newly passed state laws — but board members used the visit to press a harder question: whether Massachusetts
Heat wave to grip Winchester through holiday weekend
Step outside in Winchester on Wednesday morning and it may already feel like mid-afternoon in midsummer. Forecasters warn that several days of dangerous heat — paired with overnight temperatures that barely dip — could leave residents little chance to cool off. The National Weather Service has issued an extreme heat warning
Winchester voters fault override messaging as Select Board weighs whether to try again
Three months after Winchester voters rejected an $11.5 million override, the people who logged into a Zoom session on June 23 did not come to re-litigate the result. They came to tell the Select Board what they got wrong on the way to a 293-vote loss. The
Winchester’s civic beat keeps 16-year-old Eric Han busy
Too young to vote, old enough to sit through the budget meeting and tell you what it means.
Residents report overnight car break-ins in several Winchester neighborhoods
Residents in several Winchester neighborhoods are reporting a rash of car break-ins that occurred June 9, with home security footage appearing to show a white vehicle dropping off individuals who then rifled through parked cars. The break-ins were reported on Yale Street and Albamont Road, with residents saying
Select Board names Brian Vernaglia to housing trust on split vote
Appointment places a Planning Board member on a trust that recently sued the Planning Board over the 10 Converse Place redevelopment.
Winchester residents to get two chances to weigh in on override, Forest Ridge debates
Winchester residents who still have something to say about the failed override or the town’s possible purchase of Forest Ridge will have two chances this week to put questions before town officials. The Select Board will hold an online focus group on Zoom at 8 p.m. Tuesday, June
Winchester School Committee chair Tim Matthews honored with inaugural Commonwealth Pride Award
Supporters say his advocacy in Winchester extends beyond schools, including work tied to the town’s Human Rights Commission.
Winchester keeps Moody’s Aaa rating as town prepares to borrow
Winchester is still carrying the strain of a failed $11.5 million override, but the town picked up a piece of welcome financial news Monday: Moody’s affirmed its Aaa bond rating, the highest rating the agency assigns. Town Manager Chris Senior delivered the update near the top of the
Select Board backs Winchester Rotary amphitheater, approves solar advance and partial water-bill relief
Rich Mucci came before the Winchester Select Board on June 15 with a gift: a roughly $200,000 amphitheater, privately funded by the Rotary Club of Winchester, that the club wants to build behind the Winchester Public Library to mark its 100th anniversary next April. The board approved the concept
Winchester middle school teacher arraigned on charges of felony possession of child pornography
Parents in Winchester got the news in a superintendent’s letter on a Friday in June — an eighth-grade teacher at McCall Middle School had been put on immediate leave, barred from school buildings and told to have no contact with students while a criminal case moved forward in Lowell
Glitter, sticky notes and a call to keep fighting: Winchester marks sixth annual PRIDEfest
On a display board near the middle of the Winchester Town Common, a question waited in marker: “What do you wish people understood?” By Thursday evening the sticky-note answers had multiplied. “Everyone deserves love and respect.” “Identities aren’t fixed.” “Be you! And be rainbow.” One read simply, “There
Winchester Select Board launches voter survey after $11.5M override defeat
Listening sessions are underway, the form tests single, split and tiered ballot formats.