Special to the Transcript The 2022 Winthrop Little League baseball season concluded last week with the A Division Cubs winning the League Championship. The Cubs defeated the Twins, Mariners and Cardinals to take home the title in the WLL double…
Month: June 2022
Obituaries 06-23-2022
Louis Todisco Past Commodore of the Cottage Park Yacht Club, Past Treasurer Winthrop Youth Hockey, Former Winthrop Little League Coach and Member of the Knights of Columbus Louis R. Todisco of Winthrop passed away at the Leonard Florence Center for…
Al Petrilli Named No. 1 Mortgage Loan Originator in Winthrop
Al Petrilli, loan officer and branch manager of the Winthrop office of New Fed Mortgage, has placed No. 1 in the rankings for 2021, according to The Warren Group, a real estate and financial information company based in Massachusetts. Petrilli…
Strawberry Festival is Saturday
By Michael Herbert One of Winthrop’s longest running traditions, the Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association’s 108th Strawberry Festival, at 40 Shirley Street, this Saturday from 3 to 6 PM.  Volunteers will be dishing up a heaping bowl of strawberry shortcake…
Council Approves FY23 Budget
The Winthrop Town Council met on June 7, when it approved the FY23 budget. Council Actions Council adopted the total FY23 budget of $71,649,095. That is a 3.54 increase over last year’s budget. Councillors also allocated an additional $55,000 to…
Area Officials Demand Better Mitigation for Sumner Tunnel Toll Project
Area residents got the first taste of what it is going to be like living with the scheduled weekend closures of the Sumner Tunnel for the next 36 weeks that will culminate in a full closure of the tunnel for…
Way To Go, Jack Wallace!
We’d like to give a brief shout-out to former Winthrop High baseball star and Northeastern Conference golf champion Jack Wallace, who helped lead the Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) baseball team to the Division 3 national championship. The Warriors defeated LaGrange State of…
We Urge Our Legislators To Support Lobster Fishing Bill
Most of us are environmentalists to some extent. We doubt there are few among us who do not find it heartbreaking that there was a record number of deaths of manatees this past year in Florida because excessive algae growth…
Remember What Trump Said…
While he was on the campaign trail during the primary season in early 2016, Donald Trump uttered these memorable words, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.†Although Trump later…
Jack Wallace Plays Key Role in ECSU’s National Championship Season
Jack Wallace couldn’t have written a better script for the final season of his collegiate baseball career. Not only was his Eastern Connecticut State Connecticut baseball team going to compete in the College World Series, but the former Winthrop ace…