Breaking and in‑depth news for Winthrop, MA

  • Winthrop girls protest years of field inequities

    Winthrop town leaders have promised to improve conditions for the Winthrop high school girls softball team after members complained that they have struggled for years with field options so imbalanced…

  • Winthrop council, more calmly, renews 3A fight

    The Winthrop Town Council followed up a contentious and argumentative three-hour regular meeting with a 10-minute special session on Wednesday at which some members pushed again to join a private…

  • Town Council fights over 3A voting

    The Winthrop Town Council engaged in a prolonged standoff, with newly elected member Joseph Romano leading a revolt against the council’s president, Jim Letterie, in an apparent bid to consider…

  • Winthrop to target zoning use variances

    Winthrop allows exceptionally easy exemptions to zoning rules governing the expansion of residential unit capacity at private homes, and the vice president of the Town Council is making a renewed…

  • Parc seniors get management with troubled past

    The Parc at Harbor View senior complex in Winthrop has transferred its management rights to Jaybird Senior Living, a 50-property chain based in the Midwest with a history of fast-rising…

  • State 3A cuts hit Winthrop schools

    State officials have decided to cut some school-related funding to Winthrop over the town’s failure to comply with the state’s 3A housing law, inflaming local arguments over the town’s increasingly…

  • Council winner Finn promises focus on schools

    Winthrop’s newest member of the Town Council, Marty Finn, is a lifetime resident who decided to get cautiously involved in politics at the urging of friends after feeling growing concern…

  • Blamed by Winthrop, engineering firm urges solutions

    The engineering firm Woodard & Curran said it shares Winthrop’s concern over the water main breaks during last month’s snow storm – which the town has blamed on the company…

  • Winthrop paramedic Meyer challenges Turco

    A local paramedic, LeeAllen Meyer, has announced plans to seek the Massachusetts House of Representatives seat held by Representative Jeffrey Turco, raising the prospect of the incumbent’s first contested race…

  • Winthrop threatens contractors over storm crisis

    Several Winthrop residents angrily blamed town failures for water main breaks and home flooding triggered by last month’s snow storm, and town officials in turn blamed private water system operators…

  • Winthrop anticipates water damage costs and claims

    The Winthrop town government has invited residents affected by the storm-driven flooding to file claims against the town’s insurance carrier, while still developing its understandings and public explanations about the…

  • Storm cuts power, then water, in Winthrop

    A heavy winter storm caused chaos and distress across Winthrop on Monday, with 15 inches of snow and 60 mph wind gusts magnified by widespread power outages that took down…

  • Winthrop and state edge toward 3A peace

    After a year-long stare-down, town and state officials are showing new signs of possible compromise on the 3A housing dispute, with the Town Council’s surprise aversion to legal confrontation being…

  • Winthrop harbor sees gains from county

    The town of Winthrop has been using a Suffolk County sheriff sergeant to ramp up patrols of its waterways this past year, generating revenue and key safety improvements for the…

  • Winthrop teachers amplify contract demands

    Dozens of Winthrop teachers and their allies rallied inside and outside a town School Committee meeting this week to decry the lack of progress during the last nine months of…

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