The Department of Justice has awarded $314,273 to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS) to administer Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) grant funds in the District of Massachusetts. Since the program began in 2001, nearly $7 million…
News Briefs
MVES Offers Virtual Healthy Aging Workshop on Health Eating Beginning in January Mystic Valley Elder Services will present a FREE Virtual Healthy Aging workshop series called My Life; My Health: Healthy Eating for Successful Living, offered on Mondays, 10:00 am…
People of Chelsea Martha Amaya Flores a.k.a. Martita – 2020
By Darlene DeVita The following is one in a series of sneak peeks at the upcoming People of Chelsea additions by Chelsea Photographer Darlene DeVita. The new work will ultimately appear on the fence of the Chelsea Public Library (CPL)…
MBTA Celebrates Completion of Chelsea Commuter Rail Station
Special to the Record MassDOT Secretary and CEO Jamey Tesler and MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak were joined on Wednesday by community leaders to celebrate the completion of the new, multimodal, $37.7 million Chelsea Commuter Rail Station. Newburyport/Rockport Line riders…
Scenes from the Latest Mural That Exemplifies Community, Friendship and Unity
On a warm November afternoon, the community came together to celebrate Chelsea’s latest. With a grant from the Chelsea Cultural Council, muralist and Chelsea resident Silvia Lopez-Chavez collaborated with GreenRoots and their seven member ECO teen crew to design this…
Local Charter Public School “Levels Up” Its Academic Program
At the Phoenix Charter Academy Chelsea, students aren’t waiting until June to move up a grade level. Jorleny, a second year student at the Phoenix Charter Academy Chelsea, approaches the stage for the third time this evening as a crowd…
‘Tis the Season for Giving — and Never Has the Need Been More Urgent
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. With Christmas fast approaching, most of us will be rushing about — either to the stores and malls or on-line…
GOP’s Opposition to Rachael Rollins
The unprecedented opposition, accompanied by unprecedented vitriol, by the Republican members of the U.S. Senate to the nomination of Suffolk County District Atty. Rachael Rollins for the position of U.S. Attorney for the Massachusetts district has laid bare driven agenda.…
Guest Op-Ed: Somehow, Some Way, May This Be a Christmas worth Remembering
Dr. Glenn Mollette We had difficulties when we were growing up in Martin county, Kentucky but overall, we thought we were doing okay. President Lyndon Johnson came to Inez, Kentucky in 1964 to let us know we weren’t doing very…
Obituaries 12-16-2021
Paolo Scimemi Late Member of the Danvers Fish and Game Club Paolo Scimemi of Chelsea, formerly of Salemi Sicily, Italy, died on December 10. Paolo served in the Italian Military before coming to the United States in April of 1966.…
Tour Around Town
Teachers’ Union Holds Rally at High School
Chelsea teachers, educators, staff, and community rallied outside Chelsea High School on Wednesday afternoon as the Chelsea Teachers’ Union prepared for another negotiating session for a new contract with district representatives. Members of the union have been calling for investments…