The Town of Winthrop will hold the Second Annual Hah Bah Day a celebration of Winthrop on Tuesday, June 11. The festivities begin at 5 p.m. with a ribbon-cutting of the new boat launch and dock at the town landing.…
Month: June 2019
Lime Bikes Return — with a Kick, Fare Increase
It’s only been in town for two years and Lime Bike is already changing things up a little bit. This year announcing that there will be no “pedal-only†bicycles, only electric assisted bicycles (ebikes) and the pricing structure has changed…
News Briefs
WIHA Strawberry Festival June 15 Join us in the barn and in our lovely yard for this WIHA signature event, dating back 115 years. The time and day change allows additional time to enjoy traditional strawberry shortcake, live music and…
Police Blotter 06-06-2019
Monday, May 27 Assisted harbormaster at the Landing as he found syringes. Two items secured. Caller on Hermon Street states construction work is going on and there is loud music. Unit spoke to owner and advised them to obtain a…
Speaker DeLeo Prepares for the Future
Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo this week unveiled the details of the plan he announced last February that will provide $1.3 billion to combat the ever-increasing effects of climate change. Among the major aspects of the plan will be the…
Letter to the Editor
Vandalization at Winthrop Cemetery Dear Editor, In 1930 my grandparents, Charles and Sarah Murphy, moved into a home in Winthrop on Waldemar Avenue. They lived there until their deaths in 1957 and 1964. My parents, Helen Murphy and Lawrence Kincaid…
Guest Op-ed: Remembering Winthrop’s Dick O’Connell
Winthrop native Dick O’Connell passed away in 2002, just two years before the Red Sox 86-year World Series drought ended. It has been written that O’Connell benefitted from being a “classic outsider” in an organization marked by cronyism- Tom Yawkey’s…
Guest Op-ed: A Green New Deal of Action
By Jack Clarke Massachusetts needs its own Green New Deal – but it needs to be a deal of action. Although not a law but more a resolution expressing the will of the Congress on the necessity to address the…
WHS Sports Roundup
Girls lacrosse wins tourney opener, plays at Manchester today The Winthrop High girls lacrosse team won the first-ever state tournament game in the program’s history with a scintillating 12-10 upset victory over St. Mary’s of Lynn this past Monday in…
Obituaries 06-06-2019
Michele Perigard MacEachern Lifelong Catholic religious and musical educator Michele Perigard MacEachern, 71, of North Miami Beach, Fla., passed from this life at her home on Wednesday, May 22 after a short illness. In her last few weeks, she was…