Month: December 2015

Winthrop in 2015: The Year in Review

January Hermon Street residents opposed a change in zoning for 60 Hermon St. Ocean City Development is seeking an SDOD (Special Development Overlay District) designation for the old church. They propose to convert the building into condos. Representative Robert A.…

Police Blotter 12-31-2015

Monday, December 21 Party came to the station to report a tow of a vehicle for trespass at Executive Apartments. Report of a male on the floor on Lincoln Street. EMS notified. Male on Wave Way Avenue called to report…

Who Let the Lady Bulldogs Out?

By: Jim Lederman The Lady Bulldogs hockey team scored an impressive (2-0) shutout of archrival Marblehead at Salem State University last Wednesday to improve to 2-1. The sparkling play of junior Gretchen Howard in the Bulldog net was the key…

Enjoy the New Year Safely

“If this is the last, let’s make it a blast!” all too often is the thought of party-goers on New Year’s Eve as we usher out the old year and ring in the new. But New Year’s Eve is a…

Sports 12-31-2015

WHS sports roundup Vikings win shootout to capture tournament The Winthrop High hockey team earned a pair of hard-fought victories, including the championship game in a shootout, to capture the Kasabuski Christmas Classic at the Kasabuski Rink in Saugus this…

Obituaries 12-31-2015

Christopher Rudolph Zarba, Sr. Gifted composer, pianist and music educator; first conductor of the Boston Ballet Orchestra; accomplished portrait and landscape painter; lost son on 9/11 Christopher Rudolph Zarba, Sr. of Winthrop,  previously of Medford and East Boston, passed away…