Month: January 2021
Fighting COVID One Vaccine at a Time
Boncore Praises Town Workers for Fighting COVID
On Jan. 5, the Winthrop Town Council convened remotely for its first meeting of 2021, where it heard updates impacting the community. State of the Town Address Council President Phil Boncore opened the meeting with his annual State of the…
News Brief
Postal Employees Will Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day Post Offices across the Commonwealth will be closed on Monday, January 18, as our employees pause to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Street delivery on Monday will be limited to…
COVID Cases in Winthrop Continue to Climb
As of Tuesday, Jan. 12, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has notified Town officials of one hundred and twenty-six (126) additional confirmed positive cases of the virus in Winthrop since January 5. These bring the new total case number…
State Rep. Race Highlight: Looking at the Candidates Turco Looks to Deep Seeded Revere and Winthrop Roots in Bid for DeLeo Seat
By Melissa Moore-Randall When House Speaker Robert DeLeo announced his retirement from the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Jeff Turco looked at his own background, experience and belief in the nobility of public service. Turco used this as a catalyst for…
Divided Over In-Person Meetings
The Winthrop Town Council met on Jan. 5 for its first meeting of the new year. A motion on the agenda asked the town manager to develop a plan that would allow the body to resume in-person meetings when deemed…
Gov. Baker Holds Bill Signing for Patient First Health Care Bill
Gov. Charles Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito joined Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders to participate in a ceremonial signing of S.2984, An Act Promoting a Resilient Health Care System That Puts Patients First. Baker and Polito were…
The Race Is On for 19th Suffolk District: Jaramillo Formally Announces Campaign for State Representative
Juan, a former ICU Janitor at Mass General Hospital, intern for Speaker DeLeo, and Budget Director for State Senator Joe Boncore has already raised $20,000 towards the effort. “I will come to the House of Representatives with years of experience,…
December State Revenue Collections Total $2.8 Billion
Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) Commissioner Geoffrey Snyder announced that December revenue collections totaled $2.842 billion, which was $230 million or 8.8 percent more than the actual collections in December 2019. FY2021 year-to-date collections totaled approximately $14.306 billion, which is $372 million…