John Vitagliano, community liaison and project coordinator for the Belle Isle Bridge replacement project, reports that traffic has been flowing smoothly since the start of the project Monday. “The traffic management plan is going exceptionally well, even better than any…
Carnival Barkers: Residents want to know why they weren’t given more Notice about Festival; Turco Defends Decision, Citing Fiscal Concerns
Council President Jeffrey Turco remained firmly behind his idea to have a Fiesta Shows carnival at Ingleside Park despite the vehement objections expressed by abutters of the park at a Council meeting Tuesday night. Winthrop Parks and Recreation Department is…
Unbroken Spirit: Garfunkel Authors Book on her Husband’s Catastrophic Injury
On August 27, 1992, Frank Garfunkel was playing squash at a Boston athletic facility and during the match he hit his head into a wall, sustaining a contusion to the spine, which is an incomplete spinal cord injury. “I received…
Notice was Needed: Residents Should have been Informed about Carnival at Ingleside Park
Although Council President Jeffrey Turco may have had all the right intentions when he came up with an idea to bring a carnival to Ingleside Park to help raise funds for the Winthrop Parks and Recreation Department, the failure to…
Thank You, Belle: Businesswoman is One of a Kind
Belle Liberman has been as familiar a face to longtime Winthrop residents as any person in our community for the past 60 years. Belle was a long time businesswoman who served on the Chamber of Commerce for decades, and was…
Police Blotter 07-07-2011
June 27 12:12 a.m. — Units clear out a group of kids at a location on Lincoln Street after WPD received two calls of a fight in progress. 12:58 a.m. — Two juveniles are brought to the station to be…