Through dedication and commitment, Courtney Finn is finding success off the court By Jonathan Chang The night before the 2014 NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball National Championship game, Bentley head coach Barbara Stevens gathered her team for a message: no…
Month: August 2018
Obituaries 08-16-2018
James ‘Jim’ Oliver Taylor Retired chief medical officer of East Boston Neighborhood Health Center James ‘Jim’ Oliver Taylor was born to Rosalind, a schoolteacher, and her husband, Norman, a Methodist minister, in Phoenix, Ariz., on Oct. 11, 1937. He was…
Camp Invention Held at Winthrop Middle School
Optibots, a robotic pet vet, optical technology, and polymers, are a few of the things that one would be familiar with if they attended Camp Invention. The one-week-long camp brought 45 students to the middle school last week, giving them…
Residents Turn Out to Support Locked Out National Grid Gas Employees
In response to the lockout on roughly 1,200 National Grid employees on June 25, residents came out to share their concerns regarding potential safety issues during a meeting on Tuesday night. The company locked out employees after they failed to…
Investigators Ask for the Public’s Help
State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey, Winthrop Fire Chief Paul E. Flanagan and Winthrop Police Terence M. Delahanty said today’s fire at 137 Winthrop Shore Drive in Winthrop was intentionally-set. The fire occurred about 3:30 a.m. and caused minor damage…
Board of Health Cancels Mosquito Spraying
The Board of Health (BoH) made a unanimous decision Tuesday night to cancel the mosquito spraying scheduled for Thursday evening, Aug. 9. Prior to the decision, Bill Schmidt, chair of the Board, called an emergency meeting to discuss the spraying,…
News Briefs
FREE BIKE SAFETY DEMOS AND  HELMET GIVAWAYS Want to start biking but don’t feel comfortable or confident? Join Bike Winthrop, the Winthrop Police Department and MassBike on Aug. 18 for a series of free “Bike Safety Demos†led by certified…
DeLeo Not Happy with Negative Comments on School Funding Breakdown
Last week, after a school funding fix broke down at the State House during the last minute, the imminently important issue for Everett, Revere and Chelsea drew a great deal of disappointment locally and in the Senate, and much of…
Local Author Shows the Strength of Women In Her New Book Release ‘The Tree of Life’
When Sue (Baker) Chidlovski found herself face to face with some family archives, she came across a sentence that would be the inspiration for her latest book “The Tree of Life.†The line, written in the form of a diary…
Large Crowds Enjoy Live Racing, Food Trucks at Suffolk Downs
More than 13,000 people came to Suffolk Downs this weekend to enjoy live thoroughbred racing and a food truck festival. And what a show it was. There was a carnival-like atmosphere on two hot summer days at the popular East…