Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Warning Tuesday afternoon.
The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Warning for the Winchester region and Middlesex County Tuesday afternoon. The warning is in effect from 2:46 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. "Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area," reads the warning. "...These storms can drop 1.25 inches of rain within 30 minutes. Areas prone to flash flooding include Route 9 from Metrow West into Boston." "A Flash Flood Warning is issued for rapid and potentially life-threatening flooding. In urban areas avoid flooded roadways and obey road closures. Those living along streams and creeks should move to higher ground immediately to protect life and property," reads the warning.
A Winchester woman was recently named to the Dean's List at Beloit College for the spring semester
A Winchester woman was recently named to the Dean's List at Beloit College for the spring semester, according to a press statement. Jessica Ritenhouse, of Winchester, is a first-year student at Beloit, according to the statement. Beloit College is a residential, liberal arts college offering 40 majors to its 1,250 students, reads the statement.
Monday, June 17, 2013
A two-alarm fire broke out at a Highland Avenue home Monday evening.
Winchester firefighters responded to a two-alarm fire broke out at a Highland Avenue home Monday evening. Around 5:30 p.m. Monday, police and fire officers responded to the fire at 344 Highland Ave. in Winchester. The first responding company found heavy smoke showing from rear of the home and the roof section and a second alarm was ordered, according to Winchester Fire Chief John Nash. The cause of the fire is still being investigated, but lightning most likely caused it, according to the fire chief. "(Firefighters) were able to knock down the bulk of the fire immediately at the building and then worked their way up into the attic to make sure the fire did not extend across the entire attic," Nash said, adding that no one was inside the …
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Winchester native and injured MBTA Officer Richard Donohue Jr. was released from a Charlestown hospital Friday.
Find out which students from Winchester made the Dean's List for the spring semester at Dean College.
A pair of Winchester residents were recently named to the Dean's List for the spring semester at Dean College, according to a press statement. Clara Mills and Danielle Orsi, both of Winchester, made the Dean's List at Franklin-based Dean College, according to the statement. Students are eligible to be named to the Dean's List if they have successfully completed an academic course load of 14 credits per semester with a grade-point average of 3.3 or higher, with no grade below B-minus, according to the statement.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Winchester native and injured MBTA Officer Richard Donohue Jr. was released from a Charlestown hospital Friday.
Winchester native and injured MBTA Officer Richard Donohue Jr. was released from a Charlestown hospital Friday, according to a WHDH-TV report. “The doctors that were out in Mount Auburn that day, I guess I was lucky they call it the dream team, they say they never worked together and that particular day they were working together, they pieced me back together,” Donohue said in the report. Donohue, 33, of Woburn, left Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown, where he has been recovering after being shot in the leg during a shoot-out with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in Watertown in late April. “I can take a few steps on my own. I can walk with a cane. And so I’m better in some regards but I still have a long way to go,” …
Injured MBTA Officer Richard Donohue Jr. will be released from the hospital on Friday.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Injured MBTA Officer Richard Donohue Jr. will be released from the hospital on Friday.
Winchester native and injured MBTA Officer Richard Donohue Jr. will be released from the hospital on Friday, according to his Facebook page. Donohue, 33, of Woburn, will be leaving Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown, where he has been recovering after being shot in the leg during a shoot-out with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in Watertown in late April, according to a message posted on the Facebook page by Kim Donohue, Richard's wife. "(Friday) will be Dic's final day at Spaulding, before he returns home," she wrote. "This is a very bittersweet moment as he is excited to return to his own house and be with his son and dog, but yet he is still in a varied amount of pain and dealing with recovery. The road is long but …
george connor
7:43 am on Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Lived in that house for 6 years back in the 70's...hope all is well. more ›