Everyone wearing a badge in this city or any other does so with the possibility of being beaten, shot, stabbed and at the worst, losing one’s life in the line of duty. Being a police officer in Chelsea today is a dangerous job, often thankless, and when you serve in the CPD, nothing is...
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The Chelsea Time in Florida
The 27th annual Chelsea Reunion in Florida will be held in Boynton Beach, Florida on March 4. The event is being chaired, once again, by Chelsea’s Leona Grell, one of our best known and beloved citizens. The Chelsea Time or reunion as it is officially called, has been a big hit since it first...
Thanksgiving 2011
The Thanksgiving holiday is upon us and we begin to wonder – where has the year gone and my, isn’t it flying by? What has it brought us and do we have anything to give thanks for? For those of you reading this, you should be grateful for having been given another year of...
Receivership for CHA
The governor has called for the Chelsea Housing Authority to be placed in receivership as an antidote to the spate of nearly obscene actions taken by former CHA director Michael McLaughlin, the CHA board, and the CHA accountant. News that Attorney General Martha Coakley is presenting legal documents to the Supreme Judicial Court in...
Taking Responsibility for Their Actions
We call for an immediate indictment on perjury charges against all five members of the Chelsea Housing Authority for aiding in the filing of false financial records that showed former Executive Director Michael McLaughlin’s salary to be $160,000 instead of $360,000. To do any less than an indictment, would be to condone the actions...
Get Out and Vote
Next Tuesday is Election Day and voters would do well to exercise their vote in order to have a say in their city government. Expectations are for a lower than usual turn-out which is always a disappointment. According to the city’s able City Clerk Debbie Clayman, turnout could potentially be as high as 40%...
The Early Snowstorm
Last weekend’s snowstorm certainly set a bad precedent for the winter that is most assuredly coming our way. If things can get that bad when October hadn’t yet turned into November, how bad will it be when November turns into December? Chances are, it will be pretty bad. However, the weather forecasters are predicting...
Foreclosures and What Government Has Promised
The foreclosure nightmare for working folks in this city and in cities and towns across the land is an embarrassment and an abomination. Not since the Great Depression have so many faced losing so much after working so hard to gain for themselves their own homes. The President has made countless announcements about government...
On Councilor Cortell’s Comments
In last week’s Record, we published a story about a condo unit on Admiral’s Hill which is vacant and with its owner suffering health issues because of an alleged toxic mold issue related to water infiltration into the unit that apparently was not addressed by the management company running the building. In any case,...
Chelsea’s First
Ms. Janine Romano has the distinction of being the first woman to serve on one of the oldest, most distinguished and highly respected fire departments in the state of Massachusetts and in the United States of America. As if this were not enough of a responsibility, Ms. Romano, who is descended from an old...
