The Winthrop Republican Town Committee will host a community meeting with Senator Lydia Edwards on Monday May 16, from 6:30pm-7:30pm. The event will be held at the Winthrop Senior Center on Harvard Street in Winthrop. This event grew from the…
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Free Tea Tasting Event at Winthrop Public Library and Museum
Special to the Transcript It’s tea season! On Wednesday, May 11th from 6 – 7:30 p.m., Tea Oasis will present an informative introduction to loose leaf tea featuring the fresh teas of the “first plucking.†Unsure what a “first plucking†is?…
Mi Amore Partners With WHS National Honor Society
Special to the Transcript Mi Amore is continuing to help feed Winthrop through food recovery and delivery. In an effort to serve other community needs, Mi Amore has partnered with the Winthrop High School National Honor Society to do a…
Local Students Earn Academic Honors
Winthrop High School has released the list of students on the Honor Roll for Quarter 3 of the 2021-2022 School Year. For “High Honor Roll,†a student must have earned all but one 90%-100% and no more than one 80%-89%. …
Maureen Gill Was a Great Lady
Winthrop lost one of our community’s best this past week with the passing of Maureen Gill, the wife of former Town Council President Peter Gill and mother of Supt. of Schools Lisa Gill Howard. Maureen was the mother of four…
Alcohol Is Still #1
Americans have been dying prematurely at unprecedented levels in the past two years from a number of causes. COVID-19 has taken away almost one million of our fellow Americans, with the number still rising daily for the foreseeable future. Fatal…
Is Nuclear War Inevitable in Ukraine — and Beyond?
We don’t want to sound like alarmists, but in our opinion, the escalation both in military weaponry and rhetoric by the Western powers and the Kremlin is bringing us closer and closer to the brink of nuclear warfare in Ukraine.…
Guest Op-Ed: What’s the Buzz? Preparing for Mosquito Season
By Marianne Dalton, RN Summertime on the ocean. Backyard barbecues, outdoor sports, days at the beach, walks at Deer Island, all privileges Winthrop residents enjoy. One privilege that is not appreciated is the cloud of mosquitoes that often accompany all…
Guest Op-Ed: Celebrate Mother’s Day
By Glenn Mollette Celebrate Mother’s Day anyway you can but don’t miss the opportunity to honor mom. The opportunities pass us by. While mom is alive is the time to do something for her. Too often someone dies and we…
WHS Sports Roundup
WHS Girls Tennis Wins Four Matches The Winthrop High girls tennis team enjoyed a highly-successful stretch recently, winning four of its five matches. The Lady Vikings, who were under the direction of assistant coach Jeff Beck, who was filling in…