For those of a certain age, it is hard to imagine that 2026 will mark 58 years since the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis while he was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel…
Category: Editorials
Still Time to Get Flu Shots for Yourself and Your Children
An estimated 7400 Americans already have died from the flu this season. Although most deaths occur among senior citizens, young children are the next most-vulnerable group. The tragedy is that almost all of these deaths would have been preventable if…
Letter to the Editor
What happens next? Dear Editor, One of the more pivotal questions we can ask ourselves before taking an action is “What happens next?” It’s what the dog needs to ask itself before catching the car it’s chasing. I can’t help…
Thank you, Stranger Things
The long-awaited conclusion of the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, finally arrived over the holiday week. It’s hard to believe that it has been more than nine years since the show became a cultural phenomenon when the first season debuted…
Letter to the Editor 1-8-26
Greetings from the Winthrop Art Association A new year arrives like a blank canvas, not empty, but full of possibility As we turn the page to a new year, we’re grateful for the artists, dreamers, makers, and supporters who filled…
Happy New Year
It’s hard to believe that another year has passed and that 2026 is here — and that we now are entering the second quarter of the 21st century. For those of us who ourselves are close to three-quarters of a…
Peter Finn
Winthrop lost one of its all-time great citizens with the recent passing of Peter Finn. Peter served as Winthrop’s Superintendent of Schools in the 1980s and helped our school system navigate the difficult years in the immediate aftermath of the…
The Mass Shooting in Australia: Shocking, but Sadly, not Surprising
This past weekend’s tragic shooting in Australia at a Hanukkah festival once again has demonstrated to the world the pernicious and evil effects of anit-semitism, which is the world’s oldest form of prejudice. Anti-semitism may have reached its peak with…
A Long, Hard Winter Lies Ahead
We didn’t need a weatherman to tell us that the first part of December has been unusually cold. So it was not at all surprising when we recently read that this has been the coldest start to December in our…
There’s still time to help those in need
It’s hard to believe that Christmas is just a week away. We realize that the compressed holiday shopping season has put even more pressure than usual on all of us, but we hope that all of our readers can find…