Senator Scott Brown came to Chelsea Tuesday afternoon with his wife Gail Huff and were treated to a tour of the ALS Wing at the Leonard Florence Assisted Living Center on Admiral’s Hill. Senator Brown, his wife, and a small contingent of visitors were visibly moved by his conversation with Steve Saling, a resident...
On October 13, 1973, I drove to the top of Powderhorn Hill in the early evening to catch a glimpse of the Boston skyline. I was 23 then. I am 62 today. I remember clearly looking out over Chelsea, watching traffic heading south speeding over the Tobin Bridge. Traffic heading north appeared as a...
Federal Housing and Urban Development auditors studying the Chelsea Housing Authority’s annual independent financial audit, which HUD received recently from the CHA as mandated, have packed up their laptops having completed their visit after a thorough review of financial records. The auditors finished at the CHA on Wednesday. The auditor’s visit was prompted by...
Dr. John Silber had a long and enduring relationship with Chelsea and with Andrew P. Quigley, my mentor, friend and the publisher of the Chelsea Record. Silber, the bigger than life educator and philosopher who was president of Boston University, died last week at the age of 86. Both Silber and Mr. Quigley were...
Investigators for the Department of Housing and Urban Development are on site at the headquarters of the Chelsea Housing Authority this week and are expected to remain as long as it takes to unravel the questionable financial dealings of former CHA Executive Director Mike McLaughlin. HUD officials claim that as much as $3.5 million...
Chelsea, 1922. Yom Kippur Day. The city’s 15,000 Jewish residents are in a virtual holiday lock down. The city at this point in its history in the midst of a great population and economic rise. It is the Roaring Twenties and Chelsea is rising to its great moment under the sun. Everyone is working,...
The headline about the FBI officially coming to Chelsea was much more than just a headline. The entire story of how this development came to be is more like a long and winding narrative with ups and downs, with impossibilities and with impossibilities overcome. What began in 1997 when the city acquired a piece...
Not many registered voters in Chelsea cast a ballot last Thursday. A total of 1,311 voters cast ballots here in a primary that was more like a shadow than anything else. Democratic ballots cast totaled 1,155 while Republicans cast 155 ballots. Congressman Mike Capuano was the largest vote-getter. Eight-hundred and eighty-four Chelsea voters gave...
All along, city leaders, primary among them City Manager Jay Ash, knew that the FBI move to Chelsea was a certainty. The deal had been years in the making. Unbelievably, the city went head to head with Boston as a finalist for the project and won. Despite the fact the FBI move to Chelsea...
US Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis came to Chelsea late Tuesday afternoon. The first Hispanic Labor Secretary from East Los Angeles appointed by President Barack Obama – and a former congressman – met with about 100 members of the Chelsea Latino business community as well as other local officials. With brief remarks which were...
