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🌱 Patch AM: What deadlines must Winchester meet before this fall’s Town Meeting?

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Hello Winchester! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • What deadlines must Winchester meet before this fall's Town Meeting?
  • Thinking about singing this year? See how to join Lexington Pops.

Also on today's calendar: Family Festival Faith & Fun and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Rain and drizzle; not as warm, with a high of 76 and low of 62 degrees.
  • Saturday: Cloudy and humid with showers, temps: high: 72, low: 64.
  • Sunday: Cloudy, showers around; humid, with a high of 75 and low of 64 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Fall Town Meeting schedule (homenewshere.com) — Winchester residents and boards have just one month left to submit articles for the fall Town Meeting warrant, which closes Sept. 21. The piece walks through key dates for legal review, Select Board approval, printing, and mailing of motion books, ensuring Town Meeting members receive all materials by Oct. 29 ahead of November deliberations.
   

• Sing with Lexington Pops Chorus in its 45th season (winchesternews.org subscription) — Winchester-area singers are invited to join the Lexington Pops Chorus, which is holding free open rehearsals on Sept. 8 and 15 at Hancock Church in Lexington. The long-running community chorus welcomes music-reading singers, especially tenors, for a season featuring Bach's Magnificat, Gershwin, jazz standards, and more, with winter and spring concerts already scheduled into 2027.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Winchester Delegation and Mass. Legislature Bring Oversight to Massachusetts' Unregulated Home Care Industry —Jason Lewis Read on Patch
  • Planet Fitness, Inc. posted a job opening for Future Opening: Assistant Manager in Woburn. Apply here.
  • American Greetings Corporation posted a job opening for Part Time Merchandiser - Woburn, MA in Woburn. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Winchester here.

🗞 Nearby News

Arlington

  • New Online Portal Lets Arlington Residents Track Water Usage (patch.com)
  • Popular Boston-area French bakery chain to open new location this fall (masslive.com)
  • The Finding Bright Film Festival pledges to 'make Boston weirder' - Cambridge (csindie.com)

Medford

  • Tufts launches Innovation Hub for New Technologies in Food and Materials (eurekalert.org)

Malden

  • Malden Officers Recognized After Heroic Rescue Of Child (patch.com)

Ok Winchester! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A sponge (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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