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Winthrop council rebels against its president ↗ · Winthrop PilotA fractured Winthrop Town Council voted to dissolve its Rules and Ordinance Committee for six-month trial period, as part of a broad protest against the panel’s president, his level of control over the governing body, and the pace of housing construction. The five council members, in a growing…

Monday, October 26

Winthrop softball still finding its way home ↗ · Winthrop PilotThe Winthrop High School girls softball team’s search for a field of its own may have come to an end, though its battle for equitable facilities and treatment persists. After a fight spanning years, and especially the past few months, the team can now call Ingleside Park its home, complete with a…

Friday, October 23

Winthrop plans close look at AI ↗ · Winthrop PilotThe Winthrop Town Council is taking steps toward studying the implications of using artificial intelligence in municipal government operations, after members began diverging over the technology’s promises and threats. The council is likely to form a special commission to explore the issue, as it has…

Thursday, October 22

Winthrop tussles with state on 3A compliance plans ↗ · Winthrop PilotWinthrop officials are tussling anew with their state counterparts over the 3A housing law, pushing for answers on the idea of rezoning the town’s golf course while trying to slow the state from finalizing its legal prosecution of the matter. In two separate meetings in recent days, state housing…

Tuesday, October 20

Woodside ACE Hardware to reopen with Arlington owner ↗ · Winthrop PilotTwo months after its sudden closure, the Woodside ACE Hardware location at the western entrance to Winthrop has been bought by an Arlington family that aims to re-open it around January as the fifth member of its regional collection of stores. The new owner, John Lewis Wheatley III, paid about $2…

Thursday, October 15

Winthrop schools tested on sexual assault teachings ↗ · Winthrop PilotThe nationally prominent rape case at Cornell University is challenging the Winthrop public school system with pleas for sustained and comprehensive sex education to replace a pattern of itinerant staffing and restricted curriculum. The Cornell attack – an alleged 2024 gang rape at the Chi Phi…

Thursday, October 8

Chelsea considering eliminating parking minimums to promote housing production ↗ · Winthrop PilotCHELSEA IS JOINING a growing list of Massachusetts cities to consider whether the road to more housing runs through fewer parking spaces. The city announced last week that it will hold two community meetings this month to discuss making mandatory parking minimums for new developments a thing of the…

Monday, October 5

Meyer shuns Turco rematch, citing incumbency power ↗ · Winthrop PilotAfter a decisive loss in the Democratic primary to state Representative Jeffrey Turco, paramedic Lee Meyer is minimizing the possibility of another head-on campaign challenge, wary of a system he sees constructed by incumbents to protect their power regardless of policy positions. One month after…

Friday, October 2

Winthrop battles coastal flooding ↗ · Winthrop PilotEditor’s note: The following video was created by Katherine Markello and Naana Oppong, students in a science journalism class this past semester at Boston University taught by David Abel, a professor of journalism and former reporter at The Boston Globe. The BU Department of Journalism’s Newsroom…

Thursday, October 1

Stoughton man held after Winthrop assaults ↗ · Winthrop PilotA Stoughton man was arrested after he allegedly attacked several women in downtown Winthrop and led police on a chase by foot and bus from the area of the police station to Governor’s Park. The suspect, 26-year-old Kervens Boutin, was ordered held without bail following his arraignment Thursday on…Winthrop schools adopting state guidelines on ICE ↗ · Winthrop PilotThe Winthrop School Committee approved in general terms the system’s cooperation with a new state law designed to restrict the ability of federal immigration agents to detain people in public areas including school grounds. The law, known as the Protect Act, requires all Massachusetts communities to…

Wednesday, September 30

Arts struggle for sustenance in Winthrop schools ↗ · Winthrop PilotA decade after the opening of Winthrop’s Middle and High School building, the system’s budgetary dominance of extracurricular sports activity is far outpacing that of the arts, an imbalance that some parents and educators see as a loss for the community and its children. Winthrop inaugurated its $80…

Saturday, September 26

Winthrop eyes golf course to satisfy 3A ↗ · Winthrop PilotAs Winthrop confronts still-growing legal and financial drama over the state’s 3A housing law, the town leadership has confirmed it’s pursuing a new avenue for sidestepping the mandatory zoning expansion requirement by using its golf course. In a move similar to the mocked but still active effort in…

Thursday, September 24

Winthrop sags on MCAS testing ↗ · Winthrop PilotThe standardized test performance of Winthrop public school students is declining in both English and the sciences, leaving the town with high-school scores trailing statewide averages in both subjects. The results for this year’s Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests, or MCAS, do…

Friday, September 18

SJC again upholds MBTA Communities housing law ↗ · Winthrop PilotTHE STATE’S HIGHEST court has swatted away a second challenge to the sweeping and controversial MBTA Communities housing law. In a brisk, unanimous — and widely expected decision — the Supreme Judicial Court rejected the town of Marshfield’s bid to avoid compliance with the law on every argument it…

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