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2 days ago | 
winchesternews.org | Joyce Westner
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.
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6 days ago | 
winchesternews.org | Joyce Westner
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 brainstorm and started a baking club. “We wanted to give back to the community,” he explains. And their Bake It Forward Club was born. The High School cooking room has five kitchens, he explains.
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1 week ago | 
winchesternews.org | Joyce Westner
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. The Trump administration is gutting funding for farms and agricultural programs across the country, but Winchester’s Wright-Locke Farm is largely insulated from those cuts, because it relies almost exclusively on sales and donations.
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1 week ago | 
winchesternews.org | Renee Lubomirski |Chris Stevens |Joyce Westner |William Dowd
On Sunday, April 6, the eighth rendition of WinMUN, Winchester High School’s annual Model United Nations conference, kicked off with the strike of a gavel. This year marked a new milestone, with over 300 delegates representing 26 schools across more than four states — doubling last year’s attendance. Backed by over 50 staffers from the high school, the conference has left the drawing board and come to life.
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1 week ago | 
winchesternews.org | William Dowd |Joyce Westner
The Select Board on April 7 approved the 56-article warrant for the 2025 Spring Town Meeting and advanced a series of proposals ranging from flood mitigation funding and outdoor dining approvals to new draft regulations under the town’s tree bylaw and a commercial waste pilot program. Board members also made several key appointments and discussed preparations for upcoming Town Meeting sessions, which begin April 28 at Winchester High School.
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1 week ago | 
winchesternews.org | William Dowd |Joyce Westner |Charlene Band
Multiple Winchester boards and committees will hold critical public meetings ahead of the April 28 Spring Town Meeting, offering residents opportunities to weigh in on 56 warrant articles ranging from zoning changes to budget appropriations.
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1 week ago | 
winchesternews.org | Joyce Westner |Charlene Band
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: The Winchester High boys volleyball team is perfect after four matches. They have already defeated Arlington (3-2), Woburn (3-0), Newton South (3-2) and Burlington (3-0). The Red & Black’s most recent matches were against Newton South (April 7) and Burlington (April 8).
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2 weeks ago | 
winchesternews.org | Ashley Byrne |Charlene Band |Joyce Westner
The following was submitted to Winchester News by the Network for Social Justice. Nearly 100 people including students, parents, teachers, and professionals in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) gathered at the Griffin Museum of Photography on Saturday, April 5, for an event to honor local women leaders in STEM and celebrate Women’s History Month.
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2 weeks ago | 
winchesternews.org | Joyce Westner
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 help others grown their own vegetables.” The idea of a seed library isn’t new, but it’s only been in the Winchester Public Library since early March.
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2 weeks ago | 
winchesternews.org | Joyce Westner
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 [email protected] and put “Garden Photo” in the subject line. Tell us what it is, for those of us who don’t know their peas from their petunias!Scilla Siberia/PHOTO COURTESY OF AUGUST WESTNER. Winchester News is a non-profit organization supported by our community.
