Month: February 2023
Gear Up for Summer 2023! Cottage Park Yacht Club Hosts Community Open House
Special to the Transcript With the coldest day in decades still fresh in our memories and weeks of winter gloom still ahead, summer may seem a mirage. But despite the bitterest chills, it always comes. At Cottage Park Yacht Club,…
Council Considers New Trash Ordinance
By Adam Swift The Town Council will continue its public hearing on a proposed new trash ordinance at its next meeting on Tuesday, March 7. The council opened the public hearing at its most recent meeting on Tuesday night. Highlights…
News Briefs
WHS Food Drive Continues Members of the Winthrop High School chapter of the National Honors Society are running a Food Drive from now until March 5. The students are collecting for the local food pantry to provide food for those…
Council Approves Funding for Town Vehicle Fuel Management
By Adam Swift Tuesday night, the Town Council approved spending almost $70,000 on a new fuel management system for the town’s vehicle fleet. “What this will do is track fuel usage in all the different departments,†said Public Works Director…
Hayden Announces Appointments to Leadership Team
Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden today announced several appointments to his leadership team as he shapes the direction of the office for his four-year term. The appointments include: • Byron Knight, Second Assistant District Attorney—Byron has been in private practice…
USPS Warns the Public About Surge in Use of Counterfeit Postage
Special to the Transcript In recent years, a surge in the use of counterfeit postage has been found in the mail stream. The intentional use, or sale, of counterfeit postage is a crime because it seeks to obtain services without…
Local Students Earn Academic Honors
Curry College Fall 2022 Dean’s List Curry College congratulates Michael Dichiara, Dillon Doherty, Colin Jordison, and Peter Jurovich, who were named to the Fall 2022 Dean’s List. Curry College, founded in Boston in 1879, is a private, co-educational, liberal arts-based…
Rep. Jon Santiago Named As First Cabinet-Level Veterans’ Secretary
Special to the Transcript Governor Maura T. Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kimberley Driscoll announced that they are appointing State Representative Jon Santiago to serve as Massachusetts’ first ever Secretary of the Executive Office of Veterans’ Services. Representative Santiago is a…
Jimmy Carter: A Wonderful, Amazing Man
The reports that former President Jimmy Carter has returned home for hospice care came as sad news for all Americans this week. Ever since the self-described peanut farmer burst onto the national scene shortly after he was elected governor of…