April 4 12:33 p.m. — A Centre Street resident reports a possible case of fraud involving an asphalt company she hired to repave her driveway. 12:49 p.m. — A resident reports a “suspicious person with binoculars in the rear seat…
Month: April 2011
Obituaries 04-14-2011
Charles O’Leary Graduate of Winthrop High School, Class of 2002 Charles P. O’Leary of Winthrop died suddenly at All Saints Medical Center in Lowell on March 31. He was 27 years old. Born in Boston, he was the beloved son…
One to One Carmen Tracy, the No.1 Ranked Student in the Class of ‘11, is Headed to Harvard University
-By Cary Shuman [email protected] Carmen Tracy, the No. 1-ranked student academically in the Winthrop High School Class of 2011, has been granted admission to Harvard University as a member of the incoming Class of 2015. Tracy first learned of her…
DelVento Apologizes for Outburst during Meeting
-By Cary Shuman [email protected] First he lost his temper. Then he lost his pen, all while calling out his colleagues on the Town Council for their support of moving forward a reorganization proposal by the town manager. But Town Councilor…
Well-being Check Leads to Discovery of a ‘Drug Den’
-By Joseph Domelowicz For the Transcript Winthrop police responding to a request for a well-being check after a Crest Avenue man threatened suicide following a break-up with his girlfriend, subsequently arrested and charged the heartbroken Romeo on a variety of…
Governor’s Park Resident Charged with Drug Trafficking
-By Joseph Domelowicz For the Transcript Winthrop police and their partners in the Revere-Winthrop-State Police drug task force concluded an investigation last week into the activities of Arthur Ciampa of 500 Governor’s Dr., apt. 28, in Winthrop on April 1,…
Petrucelli’s Compromise Calls for Three Casinos, One Racino
By Joseph Domelowicz For the Transcript Winthrop’s State Senator, Anthony Petruccelli, has submitted a compromise casino gaming bill in the Senate, co-sponsored by Representative Carlo Basile that calls for three resort-style casinos and one racino in Massachusetts. If passed and…
Congrats, Carmen! – WHS Senior is Headed to Harvard
Although Winthrop High certainly has sent its share of graduates to prestigious colleges and universities through the years, it still is quite an achievement worth acknowledging when one of our grads is accepted into one of the top schools in…
Decision Time – Who will be the Town’s next Superintendent?
Tonight (Thursday) is D-Day for the Winthrop School Committee when the committee will meet to choose its next Superintendent of Schools. As we noted last week, the selection of a new superintendent rates as the most important decision that a…
Madness in D.C. – Threat of Government Shutdown is a Sign of Our Dysfunction
The specter of a shutdown of the federal government because of the idiocy (and that really is the only word to describe them) of the present Republican majority in the House of Representatives brings to mind the statement by a…