Week in Review: Town Elections, Override Fails and Winchester Stalker

Winchester held its annual

There was on the ballot for a position on the . Former Finance Committee member and current Capital Planning member,, defeated the incumbent and challenger,

On the ballot was also a The override question by 235 votes. The Board of Selectmen and Town Management will need to cut over $700K out of the budget for Fiscal Year 2012. Over the next two years, in FY ’13 and ’14, the deficit is expected to grow to $2 million.

For 2012, the selectmen plan on

Before the override vote, Acting Town Manager, Mary Ellen Lannon, Assistant Town Manager, Mark Twogood and the Board of Selectmen voted on a number of services that would be added back into the budget if the override were successful. One of those add-backs was to give the Winchester Coalition for a Safer Community some funds. But with the failure of the override, the

Residents contacted police earlier in the week to report a that followed a Winchester resident as she was out walking her dog.

The was officially awarded entrance into the Massachusetts State Building Authority’s (MSBA) Green Repairs Program. The MSBA will

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