Chelsea Neighborhood Developers, the City of Chelsea, and the Chelsea Police Department recently received the first prize of $25,000 in the MetLife Foundation’s national Award for Community Police Partnerships. The award recognized the groups’ collaboration for redeveloping the Box District in Chelsea, and for our stabilization and organizing efforts in the adjacent North Bellingham...
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Monthly Archives: November 2010
CHS girls cross country team captures CAC championship
The Chelsea High girls cross country team made history last Wednesday by winning the Commonwealth Athletic Conference championship meet which was held at the Essex Agricultural School course in Danvers. The Lady Red Devils, who finished 8-1 in dual meets this season, won the title in style, not only avenging their lone regular season...
CHS cross country boys take second in CAC meet
The Chelsea High boys cross county team took second place at last Wednesday’s Commonwealth Conference Cross Country Meet, which was held at Essex Agricultural in Danvers. However, the Red Devils defeated all of their counterparts in the Small Division of the CAC to win the divisional title. “We wanted to avenge our only loss...
CHS football team falls to No. Shore Tech
Suffice to say, Friday night’s game with North Shore Tech under the lights at Chelsea Stadium will not make the highlight reel of the Chelsea High football team’s 20100 campaign. “I was very disappointed with the way we played,” is how CHS head coach Mike Stellato summed up his team’s 35-0 loss. “We just...
Brookline too much for boys soccer team
The Chelsea High boys soccer team ran into a powerful Brookline squad in the opening round of the MIAA Division 1 North Sectional State Tourney Monday afternoon at Chelsea Stadium and came out on the short end of a 6-1 decision. “We had scouted Brookline in their game against Westford Academy on Saturday (a...
Banner season for CHS volleyball team
Although the season came to an abrupt end for the Chelsea High volleyball team with a first round loss Saturday in the MIAA Division 1 Central/East Sectional Tournament to Newton South, the fourth seed in the bracket with a 14-5 record, CHS head coach Lisa Ceccherini said the defeat did not diminish what was...
Veterans Day
It remains a cold, harsh and relentless world where millions upon millions of angry people wish and pray for our demise. They do more than that – as the events of September 11, 2001 proved. In Afghanistan and Iraq, and throughout the Middle East, people exult when suicide bombers kill our soldiers, sailors and...
Shortfall requires sacrifice
City Manager Jay Ash has worked wonders with the city budget. The city is sitting with more than $10 million in its account which is known as free cash. But the slowed economy has caused an erosion in tax receipts. The city was expecting more income than it will receive due to assessments for...
Arrest Report 11-10-2010
Monday, November 1 Raul Zelaya, 30, 94 Central Ave., Chelsea, was arrested for one-way violation, operation of motor vehicle unlicensed. Hugo Collaguazo-Plaza, 36, 173 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea, was arrested for operation of motor vehicle unlicensed. Issam Rhadfour, 30, 15 Freeman St., Malden, was arrested for disorderly conduct, assault and battery on a police officer,...
Obituaries 11-10-2010
Adolfo ‘Fito’ Ramirez Semi-retired barber, former owner of Frank and Fito’s Barber Shop Adolfo S. “Fito” Ramirez, former owner and proprietor of Frank and Fito’s Barber Shop, died at the Massachusetts General Hospital on November 4 following a heroic battle with overwhelming illness. He was 75 years old. Born, raised and educated in Laredo,...
