Winchester News

3 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.

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.

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.

1 week ago | winchesternews.org | William Dowd

Coach Suzanne Ontso’s girls lacrosse team has played five games so far in the early going, winning three of them. The Red & Black first doubled up host Wilmington on April 1, 10-5. The home opener against Stoneham followed two days later, and it was another victory for Winchester to the tune of 17-7. The Winchester girls then lost their first game of the season to non-league Weston at home on April 5, 16-8. Host Melrose also defeated them on April 9, 14-5.

1 week ago | winchesternews.org | William Dowd

At Winchester’s upcoming Spring Town Meeting — which opens April 28 — members will consider whether to replace “Robert’s Rules of Order” with “Town Meeting Time” as the procedural framework that governs how Town Meeting is run. The change is outlined in Article 38 of the 2025 warrant and is part of a broader package of 18 proposed bylaw amendments submitted by the Committee on Government Regulations (COGR) after a months-long decennial review process.