-By Joshua Resnek [email protected] About 200 friends, former senate colleagues and family members crowded into the elegant and ornate Senate Reading Room last Thursday for the unveiling of the long awaited official portrait of former State Senate President Thomas Birmingham. Following a 30-minute speech, Birmingham pulled the slip cover from the oil painting to...
Sponsored by TD Insurance, TD Bank, Palmer Paving Corporation and Greenberg Traurig LLP, Roca’s Sixth Annual Breakfast Event took place Wednesday morning at the Seaport Boston Hotel. The breakfast’s featured guests included singer Patti LaBelle and model and actress Keisha Whitaker. The honorary chairman of the breakfast was Governor Deval Patrick. “I am honored...
The Architectural Team of Chelsea has earned more recognition for its work on successful adaptive reuse projects for the Atlas Lofts. The architects combined sensitive preservation of historic fabric with successful market concepts and urban revitalization. The Architectural Team won praise for the conversion of the Russell Box Factory in Chelsea into unique, contemporary...
Monday, May 9 Gregory Glasscock, 23, 232 Brandyhill Rd., Vernon Ct., was arrested for drunkenness. Javier Escalante, 29, 139 Addison St., Chelsea, was arrested for operating motor vehicle unlicensed, operating motor vehicle on state hwy. closed to travel. Oscar Padilla, 24, 196 Shurtleff St., Chelsea, was arrested for assault with a dangerous weapon. Rolando...
The businesses in the historic part of the waterfront on the western side of the Meridian Street Bridge are made up of the Fitzgerald Shipyard – which remains a working shipyard – and which is of no impact to the cozy, quiet, almost quaint, brick and wooden row house community which is home to...
The Chelsea High baseball team defeated Minuteman Regional, 8-1, on a rainy Monday afternoon to improve to 9-5 on the season and clinch a berth in the post season state tournament. The win also improved the Red Devils to 7-3 in the Commonwealth Athletic Conference (7-0 in the Small Division), giving them a two...
The Chelsea High boys track team ventured to Greater Lowell last Thursday for a battle of unbeaten teams to decide the 2011 Commonwealth Athletic Conference title. The Red Devils had set up the showdown with a 79-57 win against Shawsheen Tech earlier in the week. The teams battled each other fiercely in a contest...
The Chelsea High girls track & field team headed to Greater Lowell last Thursday to face the undefeated Gryphons in a battle for the Commonwealth Athletic Conference championship. “We knew we were going to face a tough Greater Lowell team,” said CHS head coach Kim Huffer. “We knew that we would need to have...
John Dolan 25-year head injury survivor John J. Dolan, a 25 year head injury survivor, died at the Hyannis Pavilion on Saturday evening, May 14, where he had been receiving supportive care for the past 21/2 years after a long battle with overwhelming illness. He was 62 years old. Born and raised in Chelsea,...
