Sunday at 9 a.m. at the Walnut Street Synagogue members, friends, relatives and people from all walks of life will gather for a celebratory breakfast on the occasion of the synagogue’s 125th anniversary. Unbelievably enough, the synagogue remains open, despite the fact that the city it serves, once so heavily Jewish, is hardly Jewish...
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The Cha, Again
Yet another investigation into Mike McLaughlin’s perfidy at the Chelsea Housing Authority is right now being conducted by investigators from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. What will they find this time around? Not much more than they have already come to learn which is this, in a nutshell. Under former executive director...
Raising Councilor Salaries
There is a move underway to raise the salaries for the members of the Chelsea City Council from something like $8,000 to $14,000. Councillors here serve for a pittance in comparison with the cities and towns around us. As long as the raise is fair and just, then the claim can reasonably be made...
Location. Location. Location.
It is a compliment to this city as well as a reason to invest here when the leaders of the hotel industry dub the new Marriott here as the Marriott Boston Logan Airport/Chelsea Hotel. The new 128 room Marriott which stands next to the Wyndham Hotel has been scoring big points in the local...
Parking Design Work is Superior
One needs only to drive down Grove Street or Marlboro Street to examine how important parking design for densely populated areas can be. The city is showing great understanding of how to improve parking/traffic patterns on some of the city’s most crowded streets and avenues. The two streets named above are examples of this....
Another hotel for Chelsea
Although official confirmation is lacking at this juncture, it would appear much more than likely that yet another hotel will be locating here in the not too distant future. The understanding is that the owners of the new Marriott Residence Inn have purchased the land on the footprint where Superior Column used to have...
The Marketbasket Mall
City Manager Jay Ash has been meeting quite often with Marketbasket officials regarding their ambitions for the mall on Everett Avenue which they own. The mall has morphed from something meaningless and insubstantial to something bustling and very substantial. This has been done with help from the Demoulas Family. To their credit, the Demoulas...
The Patriots
Those of you who adore the Patriots are still reeling and trying to come to terms with last week’s loss. Suffice to say, the Pats lost but then, it’s just a game and they lost it. Even the Pats can lose a game or two and still be champions. Far better to get the...
Remembering September 11, 2001
The more that time passes, the more we tend to forget the stark terror and horrible outcome of the terrorists attacks which killed so many, while at the same time awakening the nation to the worldwide terrorist threat. The passing of time, however, doesn’t dim the memory of just how bad this attack was,...
The Tobin Bridge and Chelsea
There was a thoughtful op-ed piece appearing in the Boston Globe this week concerning the city and its need to master the Tobin Bridge. That is to say, the author was trying to tell readers that the bridge cut the city in half, that the city remains cut in half 60 years after it...
