Joyce Westner

3 weeks ago | winchesternews.org | Joyce Westner

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 should have,” Siteman says. “She’s only barked six times in her short life, she doesn’t jump or scratch, she’s good in elevators and gets along with other dogs.

4 weeks ago | winchesternews.org | Joyce Westner

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 program (his family moved to Winchester when he was 14).

1 month ago | winchesternews.org | Joyce Westner

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. says, “Last year we helped with a kindergarten playground in Honduras, says Aryee, a Winchester High School junior.

1 month ago | winchesternews.org | Joyce Westner

It’s May 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. Please send June photos to [email protected] with “garden photo” in the subject line. Every year, the Museum of Fine Arts hosts an exhibit of floral arrangements matched up with works of art. This year Winchester residents Deb DePeter and Becky Tellefsen did a piece that echoes a 5,000 Egyptian funeral dress.

1 month ago | winchesternews.org | Joyce Westner

Every year, the Museum of Fine Arts hosts an exhibit of floral arrangements matched up with works of art. This year Winchester residents Deb DePeter and Becky Tellefsen did a piece that echoes a 5,000 Egyptian funeral dress. In addition, Winchester Garden Club members Lori Taylor and Julie Hintlian also did an arrangement. “This was the first year we entered the show, encouraged by the Winchester Home and Garden Club,” DePeter says.