Month: March 2010

School employees dominate Top 100

Town employees making the big bucks in 2009 were more than likely to be police officers, firefighters or school employees, rather than those working in Town Hall. According to a salary list released by the Town last week, there were…

Torrential rains spare Winthrop

As communities across eastern Massachusetts dealt with historic flooding problems caused by three days of rain from Monday to Wednesday, the town of Winthrop made it through largely unscathed, as a low astronomical high tide and winds out of the…

Vikings a work in progress

“Rain, rain, go away,” certainly has been the mantra for the Winthrop High baseball team and scores of other schoolboy athletes across the region as they try to prepare for the start of the 2010 spring sports season. “This weather…

Police Blotter 03-31-2010

Monday, March 22 9:37 a.m. – WPD assist a worker from the Department of Mental Health perform a home inspection of a Bates Avenue resident, a 52-year-old male was subsequently arrested on an outstanding warrant. 12:30 p.m. – A caller…

Obituaries 03-31-2010

Phyllis DeSanctis Mancuso Winthrop resident Phyllis DeSanctis Mancuso of Winthrop died suddenly at home on March 23. She was 67 years old. Born July 10, 1942 in Winthrop, she was the daughter of the late Joseph Mancuso and Patricia McCarthy;…