Month: January 2016

News Briefs

MAGICIAN TO PERFORM AT LIBRARY The Winthrop Public Library and the DeLeo Senior Center present magician Scott Jameson at the Senior Center, 35 Harvard St., on Wednesday, February 17 at 2 p.m. This program is supported in part by a…

Safety Tips for Burn Awareness Week

State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan announced that national Burn Awareness Week is February 1-7, 2016. “While we traditionally associate burns with fires, the leading burn injury in Massachusetts is hot liquid scalds to children under 5,” said State Fire…

Letter to the Editor

Talking politics Dear Editor: I wanted to take a moment to make a comment on our current Presidential election. I am a 28 year old male Winthrop native, raised as a Republican. I have voted Republican in every local /…

CASA Targeting Opioid Crisis

There was a large turnout for the Community Against Drug Abuse (CASA) forum as the organization focuses its efforts on the opioid crisis that has affected our state and our town. CASA Director Amy Epstein has been working hard to…

Boncore Set to Announce

Winthrop attorney Joseph Boncore will make it official next week that he will be a candidate for the State Senate seat that was held by Anthony Petruccelli for the past nine years. Boncore has been making his rounds throughout the…