The Chelsea high School Choral Group, under the direction of John Nichols, led the audience in song at the rev. Dr. martin Luther King 2012 Commemoration Celebration Monday at the CHS auditorium.
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Chelsea Bridge Projected to Open in April
A few unexpected snags back in September pushed back the reopening of the Chelsea Bridge to vehicles to March according to MassDOT Project Manager Frank DePaola. Now, according to sources, the project to replace the aging Chelsea Street drawbridge bridge with a new vertical-lift bridge may not be ready until late April—a development that...
TBHA Concerned over Marginal Street Pier Plans
Grand plans for a long-neglected part of Chelsea’s waterfront might be running aground of one major harbor advocacy group and an organization of ship captains. Vivien Li, executive director of The Boston Harbor Association (TBHA), said that her organization has watched the intriguing Marginal Street Pier over the past year and – contrary to...
Bomb Scare at Chelsea High School
Students and staff members were quickly evacuated from Chelsea High School Tuesday morning when a bomb threat came in over the telephone. Working immediately with the Chelsea Police Department, district officials implemented their set policy and removed all students and staff from the building. School was dismissed at 10:30 a.m. so that a thorough...
Health Assessment of Chelsea Now Going On
Killing two birds with one stone doesn’t seem like a very healthy thing (especially for the birds), but in the current case for Mass General and the City of Chelsea, knocking off two things at once might be just what the doctor ordered. City Manager Jay Ash officially announced this week that he intends...
Chelsea – Reaching Our Dream of Unity
On January 16, 2012 Chelsea commemorated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Day with several special events. One of those events took place at Chelsea High School where over 200 people gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of Dr. King. This event of Community Unity brought people together from Chelsea Public Schools, Chelsea Veterans, Chelsea police...
Investigation Widens into Jessica Cormier Murder
Monday’s funeral for Everett’s Jessica Cormier from the Smith Funeral Home, was quiet and dignified and it was extremely well attended. The court proceeding two hours after she was buried, where her assailant Clarence Earl Berry, 59, of Chelsea, was arraigned for stabbing her to death, was mobbed with friends, relatives and many grieving...
Chelsea Bus Routes on the Chopping Block
As the 112 bus rumbled up to the east side of the Market Basket earlier this week, there weren’t a ton of people getting off the bus, and there wasn’t a long line of people getting on the bus either. There were women getting on with their bags of groceries, and elderly people getting...
Morrie Seigal Deserves a Gold Medal
Whenever I run into Morrie Seigal I am always amazed at his love for life and I am always especially amazed, even touched, by the fact that he remains a relevant public voice in this city well into the eighth decade of a lifetime spent here. To know Morrie is to like him. His...
CHA Receiver’s First Report
A report by Chelsea Housing Authority (CHA) receiver Judy Weber last week revealed a number of changes that have taken place over the last month, and perhaps, a number of contentious meetings that have also taken place in the wholesale clean-up effort. Weber presented her first monthly report to the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC)...
