By Pete Legasey For the Transcript Nearly 100 Winthrop High students are participating in this year’s National History Day Competition. Some students worked as individuals, while others formed into small groups to create educational projects on historical figures for this…
Vikings ease into North quarterfinals
The Winthrop High boys basketball team cruised into the quarterfinal round of the MIAA Division 4 North Sectional tournament with a runaway 71-38 triumph over Tyngsboro before an appreciative home crowd at the Holland Gym Tuesday evening. Coach Dave Brown…
Top-ranked Vikings draw Newburyport
The Winthrop High boys hockey team will embark on its Journey to the Tourney this Friday evening at 7:30 at Salem State College when they take on Newburyport in a quarterfinal game of the MIAA Division 2 North sectional tournament.…
Police Blotter
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16 9:46 AM: A Tileston Road resident reported that the windshield of his motor vehicle (MV) had been damaged overnight. 9:47 AM: An Ocean View Street resident reported that a rock had been thrown through a front window…
A Job is a Job – Some are bent on obstructing progress
One of the criticisms of Barack Obama’s stimulus plan by the Republicans is that money is being spent on programs that do not appear on their face to be of any real value. For example, Bobby Jindal, the 37-year-old Republican…
Back to Life – Hospital development is good news for the town
At long last, development plans for the former Winthrop Community Hospital building on Lincoln Street, which has been vacant for 10 years, will be going forward after the Planning Board gave its unanimous approval to a condominium project on Monday…