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How well do you know Winchester?

Latest in the series.  Retired photographer Frank Siteman has taken photos of places downtown, and your job is to guess where they were taken.  If you know the answer, send an email to editor@winchesternews.org and put How well in the subject line.   Last time we had four winners.

How well do you know Winchester?

Latest in the series.  Retired photographer Frank Siteman has taken photos of places downtown, and your job is to guess where they were taken.  If you know the answer, send an email to editor@winchesternews.org and put How well in the subject line.   Last time we had NO winners.

Winchester News seeks volunteer technical help

Winchester News is run with great energy and a small team but we’re hoping someone in our community would be willing to be a technical backup. Areas include the publication platform (ghost.io) technical configuration, adding new accounts for authors, domain registration, email and file server configuration and support.

Residents encouraged to adopt a storm drain

There are so many ways to volunteer in Winchester, but one of the easiest jobs is to adopt a storm drain.  A program started in many communities throughout the country, it encourages residents to clean the area around a storm drain near their house so that rainwater and snow melt

Nymph statuette stolen from bike trail

A small sculpture of a nymph was taken from its granite base last week. The little maiden was part of a 4-foot-high statue on Mt. Vernon Street, across from Town Hall where the bike trail heads towards the high school.  Cynthia Randall, a member of the Winchester Cultural District Managing

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