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 to direct Council actions to contribute to the City’s success in addressing the goals....
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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 the Market Basket was amazing, not only for its size but for the many...
Chelsea Rises Up Against Ethanol
Activists from Chelsea Greenspace, elected officials and other residents were out in full force to protest Global Oil’s plan to bring the hazardous material Ethanol through Chelsea to its storage facility on the East Boston/Revere line. At a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) hearing at Revere City Hall last Thursday Chelsea activists showed up...
Receivership Ends for CHA
This past Friday did not only represent the end of a hard work week, but also it represented the end of the hard work associated with the last four months of receivership at the Chelsea Housing Authority (CHA). Determining that the CHA is back on its feet and strong enough to stand on its...
Audit Report Detailed Virtually No Controls
One of the first moves of former Chelsea Housing Authority (CHA) Receiver Judith Weber was to hire a professional number cruncher to weed through the sticky, convoluted financial records that had been created and left by the deposed former administration. That number cruncher came in the form of nationally-known auditing company Urlaub and Co....
Call It Hotel Row
The Wyndham Hotel is shown in the foreground. In the background of this image taken Tuesday afternoon is the new Marriott rising. By itself, the Wyndham would suffice as the only hotel for a city this size. But now we will have two and there is the very likely possibility of a third major...
Looking at Success: The Remaking of the Old Marketbasket Building is a Chelsea Business Miracle
Less than 2 years ago, the Demoulas Family put back to use the building that housed the old MarketBasket. The new MarketBasket had opened. Hundreds came to be employed there. The old building was shuttered. With the backing of Chelsea City Hall and City Manager Jay Ash, plans were discussed by the Demoulas Family...
Chelsea Fire Department Review Firm Ready to Start
The long-awaited top-to-bottom review of the Chelsea Fire Department is nearly ready to being, according to City Manager Jay Ash. This week, the City inked a contract with an independent reviewer to conduct the work and to set a timeline for its completion. “We have agreed upon and signed a contract with Matrix, which...
Ethanol Trains Again
A new and contentious issue has rolled into Chelsea over the past two weeks like a freight train, except that the issues is exactly that – freight trains carrying the hazardous material Ethanol. One week after the Chelsea City Council passed a somewhat controversial resolution opposing Global Oil Company’s plan to transport millions of gallons...
Governor Increases Fuel Assistance; Orders Utilities to Stop Shutoffs
Governor Deval Patrick is dramatically increasing the amount of money set aside for those having difficulties paying for home heating fuel throughout the state. At the same time, he ordered the Department of Public Utilities to ban heating shut-offs for another month for low income residents. This is an important and substantial bit of...
