The salt piles on Marginal Street rise up full and high toward the sky in mid-March and they’ve been in that shape and form all winter during a season that never really arrived. The unusually snowless and iceless winter has…
Month: March 2012
CAPIC-chelsea Family Network ‘Getting Healthy’ Fair Set for May 5
The CAPIC-Chelsea Family Network is getting ready to hold its third annual “Getting Healthy in Chelsea” fair for children with their families, parents, educators and community members of all ages. The fair will take place on Saturday, May 5 from…
Leo Sevinor, Dead at 95
When Leo Sevinor was growing up in Chelsea during the 1930s, his late father Ralph Sevinor purchased one of the last remaining farms in Marblehead. That farm spread from Wares Pond almost to Tent’s Corner, where the Marblehead Bank is…
Zoning Board Gives Thumbs Up to Nitrogen Tank
The Chelsea Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) met on Tuesday, March 13th, and after reviewing a proposed project change by Muffin Town on Crescent Avenue, gave the go-ahead for the company to install an outdoor liquid Nitrogen tank. Muffin Town,…
Two Chelsea Residents Wounded in Shooting
An early morning shooting Monday has left two Chelsea residents wounded. The shooting occured at 1:30 a.m. in the area of 460 Broadway. Responding officers observed the first victim, later identified as Ricardo Rodriguez, 23, of Chelsea lying in the…
City Council Adopts New Priorities
The City Council has adopted a list of eleven goals for municipal government for its two-year term. City Council President Leo Robinson said the exercise is meant to formally communicate to the Administration what the Council feels is important and…
The Ethanol Issue Reveals Strong Ties
The issue over Ethanol deliveries by rail to Revere by coming through Everett and Chelsea has caused our three cities to come together to oppose it. Meetings in all three places strongly opposing such a scenario have brought out hundreds…
Police Briefs 03-22-2012
March 12 Jordy Morales, 18, 8 Howell Ct., Chelsea, was arrested for operating motor vehicle unlicensed, blocking/obstructing intersection. Ivan Garcia-Barrios, 56, Francis House Shelter, Boston, was arrested on warrant and threat to commit a crime. Jamie Flores, 20, 58 Hooper…
Obituaries 03-22-2012
Beatrice ‘Bea’ Luzzatto Caring Woman, Devoted to Family and Friends Beatrice M. “Bea” (Wedge) Luzzatto, a lifelong Chelsea resident, died on March 18 at the Glen Ridge Nursing Center in Medford where she had been receiving supportive care for the…
Market Basket hosts Spars grocers from around the world
Seventy grocers from around the world visited the Market Basket Tuesday afternoon for a first hand look at one of the largest, most inventive and successful supermarkets of its kind in the nation. Those grocers the Record spoke with said…