Winthrop Police Chief Terrence Delehanty and Governors Park property manager Dave Belcher this week announced a new partnership between the Winthrop Police and the staff and residents of Governors Park to curtail crime at and around the residential complex off of Revere Street. Governors Park has made the investment and installed 12 new video...
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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Vikings earn first win of season, topple Swampscott 30-29 – McCarthy scores game-winning points
The Winthrop Vikings 2010 season has largely been a story of frustration, missed opportunities and bad luck, as a young inexperienced team struggled out of the gate to an 0-7 start. On Saturday, they were able to erase a good deal of that frustration and disappointment with a 30-29 last second win over then-conference...
Deval Patrick – Can he govern as well as he campaigns?
About halfway through Gov. Deval Patrick’s first term in office, we wrote that he rated as one of the most ineffective governors in Massachusetts history. Not only had he committed some major political blunders when he first came intoz office (such as giving his wife a huge budget to re-do the governor’s office and...
Loud And Clear – Sanity prevails all across the state
The strong support shown by local voters, who mirrored voters across the state, for maintaining the current sales tax rate, was an affirmation that voters, as angry or as disillusioned as they may be, have not lost complete control of their senses. Had the ballot question that proposed halving the sales tax been passed,...
Two More Things… A good vote for local office holders
Although Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo was unopposed, his complimentary vote of 5,003 votes of the 6,728 people who cast ballots in the election (representing a turnout of approximately 60 percent) was a testament to the strong support Bob enjoys in his hometown. Further, in our view, the fact that so many voters...
Way to go, Vikings
It has been a tough year for the Winthrop High football team, but the weeks of frustration came to an end with a dramatic victory in the last seconds over Swampscott Saturday. Sean Driscoll was right in having the Vikings play all of the schools in the Northeastern Conference Large Division, the only Small...
Police Blotter 11-03-2010
October 25 8:04 a.m. — A Winthrop resident reports being involved in a hit-and-run accident on Pauline Street in which the other driver fled the scene. Both parties came into the Police Station a short time later and resolved the situation. 8:27 a.m. — A car was towed from Revere Street after the driver...
Obituaries 11-03-2010
Gertrude Louise Benson Taught at E.B. Newton School in Winthrop Gertrude Louise (O’Connell) Benson of Wilmington, Laconia NH, Jensen Beach FL, and formerly of Winthrop, died on October 29. She was 93 years old. Born in East Boston, the third of six children, she lived her entire life in the East Boston/Winthrop area, only...
