By John Lynds For the Transcript Senator Anthony Petruccelli, who represents the district most likely to host a full-scale, resort-style casino, was one of five senators who abstained from taking part in a vote by a key legislative committee supporting…
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Winthrop residents shine in The Winthrop Playmakers production of ‘Anything Goes’
Local Winthrop residents Natalie Bono Bayersdorfer, Kelli Gaynor, Mark McClelland and Ariane Seymour shine in The Winthrop Playmakers Production of Anything Goes opening April 16. Anything Goes is an amusing story wrapped around one of Cole Porter’s classic and magical…
From home to the front
It can be very easy to relegate the War on Terror to the political arenas in Washington, D.C. or to the nightly updates on the news – leaving the reality of day-to-day soldier life a world away. However, that hasn’t…
Mutual aid – Delehanty and Flanagan support regionalization efforts
The leaders of Winthrop’s public safety departments are refuting opinions stated in a piece in last week’s Sun-Transcript that the town’s fire and police departments are not interested in advancing regionalization efforts in Winthrop, Revere, and Chelsea. In a joint…
School employees dominate Top 100
Town employees making the big bucks in 2009 were more than likely to be police officers, firefighters or school employees, rather than those working in Town Hall. According to a salary list released by the Town last week, there were…
Torrential rains spare Winthrop
As communities across eastern Massachusetts dealt with historic flooding problems caused by three days of rain from Monday to Wednesday, the town of Winthrop made it through largely unscathed, as a low astronomical high tide and winds out of the…
A feeling of togetherness – Funding for Winthrop, Chelsea and Revere aims to improve services and cut costs
House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo (D – Winthrop) announced Monday that the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) will use District Local Technical Assistance Funds to plan for the regionalization of municipal services in Winthrop, Revere and Chelsea in an effort…
Parks and Rec plans a busy season of activities for the whole family
The Winthrop Parks and Recreation Department will kick off its spring schedule this Friday evening beginning at 5:30 p.m. with a youth basketball fundraiser at Winthrop High School. The charity event will feature three exhibition games between local youths and…
Budget hearing Saturday
Precinct 2 Councillor James Letterie expects that the regionalization of municipal services will be one of the topics that will be addressed at the Town Council’s budget hearing Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Senior Center. Regionalization, a plan in…
Town departments worked overtime to help residents
Like most of eastern Massachusetts, Winthrop was hit hard by a storm last weekend and into Monday, as a late season Nor’easter set up just to the south of Cape Cod and churned wind, rain and waves into the region…