Town Harbormaster Charles Famolare III, who has been suspended since last summer while awaiting the outcome of an Ethics Commission hearing into his alleged receipt of an improper gift from a town contractor, was found to have violated the state’s conflict of interest laws by the Commission last week and was fined $2,000. The...
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Winthrop Police Hail Assistance in B&E Case
Winthrop Police Chief Terence Delehanty this week hailed the input and assistance the department is receiving in an on-going breaking and entering case on Grovers Ave., after surveillance video at a reported robbery scene was distributed through Face Book and other media outlets, resulting in a positive identification of the suspect in the alleged...
School Caterer Increasing Local Produce in Meals
Representatives of Chartwells School Dining Services Inc., the school lunch vendor for Winthrop public schools, have announced that the company is working to increase the availability of locally grown produce in school meals for the coming school year. By working with local farmers to determine the food items each farm provides and then marketing...
Getting Ready for School Year
With just under four weeks to go until the start of the 2012-13 school year, Superintendent of Schools John Macero said this week that he feels the department is on or ahead of schedule to be ready to accept students when schools officially open on Friday, September 7, 2012. “Teachers will be reporting in...
School Comm. to Approve FY ’13 Budget
Superintendent of Schools John Macero said this week that the biggest item on the School Committee agenda for Thursday (August 9) is for the Committee members to discuss and approve the school department budget based on the $16,142,300 allocation from the town. Macero also declined to comment on the status of negotiations with the...
Police Arrest Two in Drug Sting
Winthrop Police Chief Terence Delehanty reported that two suspected drug dealers have been arrested in Winthrop, after a successful surveillance operation that was initiated when residents on a street in Winthrop reported to police that they had noticed what they felt was drug-related behavior occurring around a home on the street. “Over the past...
Moving On: Building Inspector Takes Job in Everett
Building Inspector Jim Soper was born and raised in town, watching his father, grandfather and others in his family give back to the community they called home. That is what made working as the town’s building inspector the last few years special for him. Unfortunately for Winthrop, Soper was so good at his job...
Town Has Hired Collins Center to Help with Recruiting Employees
With the recent rash of employee departures from town government – in the past few months the Chief Financial Officer, Assistant Chief Financial Officer, Building Inspector and Grant Manager have all left town employ – it would be natural to wonder what the town is doing to replace all of the staff members who...
First Public Meeting on New School Proposal Draws a Crowd: More Than 100 Local Residents Turn out to Hear About the Process, Ask Questions
By the standards of most hotly debated issues, a crowd of 100 or so people spread throughout the Winthrop high auditorium on a Wednesday night, does not appear to be a big turnout, especially since the topic was the process for determining the feasibility of a new high school building in Winthrop in the...
Police Explorers Return from Conference with 3rd Place Trophy Trip Provided Education, Competition for Local Youth Group
The Winthrop Police Explorers returned from their bi-annual to the National Police Explorers Conference in Colorado last weekend, and brought with them the trophy as the third best Explorers unit in the country, after competing against 3,000 explorers from across the country, including big city troops from cities like Orlando and Tampa Bay FL,...
