During Monday night’s school committee meeting, Superintendent Lisa Howard discussed a few factors involved in reopening the schools. Recruiting and hiring classroom monitors is at the top of the list. The district is in need of three monitors at the…
Month: December 2020
T-Mobile Brings More Connectivity to Town’s Students With Project 10 Million
The Winthrop school district will be on the receiving end of Project Ten Million, a program that was launched by T-Mobile to close the homework gap. The mobile telecommunication company saw the struggle that many remote learning and hybrid students…
News Briefs
Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination (IDDE) Outfall Inspection Program The Winthrop Department of Public Works (DPW) has commenced an Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination (IDDE) outfall inspection program to find and remove illicit discharges in the Town’s storm drainage system.…
St. John the Evangelist, Holy Rosary to Merge
Following discussions among church officials that began in July and a unanimous vote by Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley and his advisers, Saint John the Evangelist Parish and Holy Rosary Parish will merge and become one parish in February, 2021. The…
Madaro Family Community Fund Is Working With Local Businesses and Organizations to Collect Toys
This week, the Madaro Family Community Fund launched their annual Eastie’s Elves toy collection program which will directly support local families who are in need of holiday gifts. On December 1, the non-profit organization placed toy drop-off boxes at twenty-four…
Town Provides Project Updates on Work in the Center Business District
Special to the Transcript The following is a summary of the work completed in the Center Business District last week and the work P. Gioioso & Sons, Inc. has scheduled for the next two weeks. Please note, the anticipated schedule…
Police Blotter 12-10-2020
The following incident reports are among the calls to which the Winthrop Police Department responded on the listed dates: Monday, Nov. 23 1242: A resident came into the station to report that he had given a No Trespass notice to…
George Costonis
Whenever we think of George Costonis, the word that comes to mind is “energy,” a quality that George brought to everything he did, whether it was in his business endeavors, raising his family, or his many civic contributions that benefited…
Happy Hanukkah
The eight-day observance of Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, gets underway this Thursday, December 10, and will culminate next Friday, December 18. In summary, Hanukkah commemorates the victory of the Maccabees — a group of fierce warriors who used…
The Virus Is a Hunter — and We Are Its Prey
It now has been nine months since lockdowns went into effect in many states, including here in Massachusetts on March 16. However, despite all of our previous efforts, the COVID-19 pandemic is surging across the entire United States. The pleas of public health…