Letter Grading Of Food Establishments Dear Editor, I was pleased to read in the Winthrop Sun Transcript on January 22, 2026, that the Inspectional Services Department will soon start implementing the Regulation of the Winthrop Board of Health on Letter…
Category: Editorials
Our legislature should not stand in the way of Waymo
The two bills that are circulating in the state legislature that effectively would ban autonomous, self-driving vehicles in the state not only are short-sighted, but they also will serve to perpetuate the carnage on our dangerous and deadly roads. It…
Acclimating to Our Local Ice Age
The bitterly cold weather that we’ve been experiencing day-after-day this winter has been oppressive (not to mention costly because of our high heating bills). The daily lows in the single digits, coupled with the strong winds that have brought the…
Go Pats!
It seems like it was just yesterday that Patriot Nation looked forward to our Patriots making it to the Super Bowl almost every year. From 2002-2019, the Pats went to nine Super Bowls in 18 years, winning six of them,…
Letters to the Editor
Winthrop Could’ve Easily Been in Compliance Dear Editor, I assume most local news viewers and readers learned that Winthrop is now one of the 9 communities that State Atty. General Andrea Campbell will be suing for its non-compliance with the…
The Pitt Demonstrates a Healthcare System on Life Support
The Pitt, the critically-acclaimed hit series on HBO about an emergency room in a big-city hospital in Pittsburgh that has just begun its second season, is far more than just good entertainment. The critically-acclaimed show also accurately portrays the critical…
This is the SAD-dest Time of the Year — So get Outside
With the oppressiveness of a New England winter fully upon us, for many this can be the saddest time of the year — quite literally. The medical community has long-recognized that the shortened days of winter affect all of us…
Letters to the Editor
Letter Grading of Food Establishments Dear Editor, I was pleased to read in the Winthrop Sun Transcript on January 22, 2026, that the Inspectional Services Department will soon start implementing the Regulation of the Winthrop Board of Health on Letter…
Let’s Go Patriots!
For those of us who are longtime fans of the New England Patriots, it seems like it was only yesterday that the Pats of Brady and Belichick were the dominant team in the NFL. We were around in the early…
As We’re Shivering Next Week, Remember, We’re Halfway Through Winter
When the National Weather Service issued its long-range forecast for this winter last fall, it was a good news/bad news scenario. They were predicting warmer-than-normal temperatures for our region, which was the good news (after all, who likes cold weather?),…