Winchester will soon have an opportunity to clean up some outdated language in our town government, with a proposed name change from “the Board of Selectmen” to “the Select Board” (Article 19 of Fall 2017 Town Meeting). Here’s why we should make this change now:Shortly after our Winchester Board of Selectmen was established, the board voted that members of the board had to be “legal voters." Since women could not legally vote in 1850, it [...]