Phyllis Falzarano Former Proprietor of Rita’s Flowers Phyllis A. (Hines) Falzarano of Salem, NH, formerly of Chelsea, died on October 1 at the Parkland Medical Center of Derry, NH. She was 67 years old. Mrs. Falzarano has lived in Salem, NH for the past eight years after selling the building that housed her business...
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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Warm reception – Feinberg’s visits Juneau, Alaska and finds a former Chelsea resident
The story begins at a boxball reunion game on Revere Beach, and then takes a detour to the Chelsea Public Library, and begins anew in Alaska, the largest state in the U.S.A., by area – thousands of miles from Chelsea. Thus was the interesting and circuitous journey that Stuart Feinberg, the former Chelsea schoolteacher,...
Another dominating win for Red Devils
The Chelsea High varsity football team extended its outstanding start to 3-0 on Friday with a 29-0 win over Greater Lowell. The Red Devils have outscored their three opponents by a combined 109-12, and their starting defensive unit has yet to be scored upon. Unlike the previous two games, which became lopsided routs before...
Talking trash
Who in their right mind but City Manager Jay Ash could make a proposal to turn the city’s trash removal practices upside down and then host a talk about it with more than 100 people from throughout the city attending? Ash was at his – get everyone together – best Tuesday evening at the...
Youth Sports Roundup
The first two weeks of the season did not go the way the Chelsea Pride Gladiator Division team planned, but the Pride unloaded the frustration of the back-to-back losses on an unfortunate Salem team on Sunday. Chelsea was superb on both sides of the ball as they roared to a 37-14 victory, the first...
Tobin Bridge road repairs completed ahead of schedule
For those of us that use the Tobin Bridge on a regular basis, the 15 months of months of construction and traffic seemed like an eternity. However, the roadwork is over and the lower level of the bridge had been reopened to three lanes over the weekend and was ahead of schedule. Massport made...
The Chelsea Housing Authority an example of excellence
It used to be, and it was not so long ago, when the Chelsea Housing Authority was riddled with ineptness and incompetence and saturated by the worst kind of political influence and nepotism. Not so today, and not so for many years already. Under the management of Executive Director Mike McLaughlin, the CHA has...
Capuano’s campaign
Chelsea’s congressman Mike Capuano is a giant among those trying to steer and to change America so that the nation moves forward. He is a liberal and a honest man interested in the right of the poor and the working poor as well as the successful and well off. His campaign against Attorney General...
Obituaries – 10/1/09
Gene Arthur Carter Longtime Chelsea resident Gene Arthur Carter died on September 16. Born and raised in Chelsea, he was the beloved son of Charlene Carter and the late Gene A. Carter. He spent his childhood and most of his life in Chelsea and was educated in the local public schools. After high school,...
