Special to the Transcript Ambulance services to the town are under the microscope following the death of a two-year-old girl last Friday. When the call for an unresponsive toddler came in on Friday, both ambulances that service the town by…
Registration Now Open for Prekindergarten
By Adam Swift Prekindergarten registration is now open for Winthrop families through the end of February. Superintendent of Schools Lisa Howard said information about the registration process is available on the school district website, and that there will also be…
Police Blotter 02-01-2024
The following incident reports are among the calls to which the Winthrop Police Department responded on the listed dates. The log is a public record and available for review. All persons who are arrested or charged with a crime are…
D.A.’s Office Creates Animal Cruelty Task Force
Special to the Times-Free Press The Suffolk County District Attorney’s office has taken a major step in addressing the escalating issue of animal cruelty. Last week, Suffolk County DA announced the creation of the county’s first Animal Cruelty Task Force.…
Environmentalists: Putin’s ‘Useful Idiots’
Vladimir Lenin used the term “useful idiots” to refer to journalists, labor leaders, and politicians in the West who extolled the virtues of Lenin’s new Communist regime in Russia as a “worker’s paradise.” They were in the vanguard of the…
DePamphilis Says Retiring Coach Gavin Monagle Was a Giant in High School Football
Joseph DePamphilis graduated from Savio Prep in 2004 as one of the greatest football players in the school’s history. DePamphilis wrote the following tribute to his coach at Savio, Gavin Monagle, who retired from high school coaching on November 27,…