Category: Winchester News
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Winchester sees rise in domestic violence, police better trained to distinguish between ‘crime and crisis’
Domestic violence arrests have been rising in Winchester over the past three years. The number of residents charged with domestic violence crimes – including assault and battery, attempted strangulation and suffocation, interfering with police and trying to intimidate or harass…
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Winchester church pulls out all the stops to find young organists
Church services are filled with music, whether that be a choir singing hymns or a bellowing organ or dulcet piano that accompanies it. Music is a crucial part of church services to most people. But for three Winchester families, the…
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G.R. Nowell & Son named Winchester Chamber of Commerce’s first Business of the Year
The Winchester Chamber of Commerce is giving its first Business of the Year award to G.R. Nowell & Son. The company has been a Winchester staple for almost 100 years. Many in the community know it by its orange trucks.…
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10-year-old Winchester musician, composer Claire Yuh-Yuh Yang to perform original pieces in May
At a charity event for lung cancer awareness, Claire Yuh-Yuh Yang, 10, sat next to a woman who had come all the way from Alabama to Boston’s Chinatown. The woman, named Love, shared with Yang how she was excited to…
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Families gather for Winchester High School Science & Engineering Night
Science teacher Ben Lawhorn demonstrates a photosynthesis lab in the biology room during Winchester Science & Engineering Night on April 2. COURTESY PHOTO/ANN RITCHIE Hundreds of families funneled into Winchester High School on April 2 to look at specimens through…
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Winchester students speak at State House about MCAS alternatives
Rep. Michael Day sits and speaks with students about their experiences with the assessment tests. COURTESY PHOTO/JENNIFER ELINEEMA Students from Winchester Public Schools accompanied their teachers to the State House this month to share their experiences with performance-based assessments. Winchester…
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Winchester High School students to showcase science for community
Bubbles sizzled in a plastic bottle as vinegar reacted with baking soda. The gas produced from the reaction filled a red balloon attached to the bottle’s top as five fifth graders looked on in awe. “I liked watching the balloon…