This Week in Winchester History: Boy Scouts Come to Town

This is a regular column with items drawn from past editions of the Winchester Star.

1911

Boy Scouts Come to Town

The Mother's Association of Winchester pledged to do everything in its power to bring the Boy Scout Movement to Winchester in the fall.

Summer Concerts

The summer concert series was starting this week at _ The first performance was by the Woburn Brass Band.

Headlights On

Residents were reminded the law that was passed saying that horse-drawn vehicles need to carry lights at all localities except cities or where street lamps are placed at a distance of 500-feet has gone into effect.

1961

Sidewalks

The town began constructing sidewalks along Lockeland Road after residents signed a petition. They were concerned about the increase traffic along the road and the danger it created when children had to walk to school.

1986

Fire

A Wedgemere home suffered $200,000 worth of damage due to a fire. The fire was caused by a heating coil used to wrap pipes to keep them from freezing.

The fire started because the coil was never unplugged, Fire Chief Robert McElhinney told the Star. The four-alarm blaze at 12 Wedgemere  sent six Winchester firefighters and one Arlington firefighter to the hospital. No one was home at the time of the fire.

State Tests

Winchester students in grades three, even and 11 had to take a uniform state test. Winchester students now needed to take two standardized tests that year, and residents were concerned that it was creating too much pressure.

All the information for this story came from the Winchester Star.