Todd Sacco was a man with a plan and thanks to his efforts, Emerson Road is now a street with new trees. After Hurricane Irene hit Winthrop last August and felled some old trees on Emerson Road, Sacco decided to…
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An Honor on Hold: Council Postpones Naming DPW Building After Dimes
When Councilor-at-Large Larry Powers made the request to table the ratification of naming the Winthrop Department of Public Works Headquarters in honor of Richard Dimes, the gutsy call was “no reflection on Mr. Dimes.†Powers is the former fire chief…
Sunrise in Winthrop
Richard Honan captures a spectacular sunrise over the waters off Winthrop.
Macleod Inducted in to Women’s Beanpot Hall of Fame
Don MacLeod was a hockey pioneer. He foresaw the explosion of women’s hockey on the sports scene when he became the head coach at Northeastern University in 1981. He fought for the advancement of the women’s game, won 210 games…
State Supreme Court Upholds Conviction; Murder Suspect to Remain Behind Bars
Winthrop police and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office announced this week that the twice convicted suspect in a 1995 Winthrop murder was denied his final appeals last week by the State Supreme Judicial Court and will remain behind bars…
Macero Will Present Plan to Move Schools Forward
With their budget goals for fiscal year 2013 already announced, the Winthrop School Committee will meet Thursday night to review the findings of Superintendent’s John Macero’s School Entry Plan and hear his recommendations for moving the school district forward over…
Health Center Construction to Start in June
The long awaited Winthrop Community Health Center, which was first proposed by East Boston neighborhood Health Center for the Center area business district, is finally poised to begin construction in June, according to an EBNHC source this week. Manny Lopes,…
Lewis Lake in the Early Morning
The placid waters of Lewis Lake in the early morning shortly after sunrise and the spire of Saint John the Evangelist Church rising in the background have an altogether European texture, look and feel. St. John’s, like all of Winthrop’s…
Veterans Road Project Moves Forward
It’s close to the final stop for approval of the proposed construction of 40 affordable housing units in one building on the site of the Temple Tifereth Israel property at 93 Veterans Road and the construction of a new, smaller…
‘T’ Buses to Keep on Rolling Here
It took crowded public meetings, stacks of angry letters, phone calls to numerous departments and even private meetings by House Speaker Bob DeLeo, but in the end state transportation officials allowed Winthrop to keep its bus service. The MBTA released…