A Happy Interlude in Winchester – Part 2
By William T. Riiska, Winsted
     Almost immediately after the Town of Winchester’s bicentennial celebration in 1971, something else began stirring. The Music Man at the Gilbert School, Ed Keeley, met me in the mayor's office one afternoon. He started talking about a proposed exchange concert with the Mid Hants band in Winchester, England. He explained several of his thoughts on the subject and it was plain that he had done a lot of the groundwork. We would take the 100-piece Gilbert School Band to Winchester, England. I didn't really think he was asking me when he said should we go. I told him "Yes."
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Batcheller School Annual Awards
     The Batcheller School in Winsted held its Annual Awards Assembly on June 14. The following students were honored.
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A Difference of Opinion
By Joseph Cadrain, Winsted
     The June 7 edition of The Voice contained two letters from Winchester School employees that were unethical, demeaning and disrespectful to the duly elected school board members who have not taken the easy way out by voting "yes" to all issues that the education community favors.
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