-Special to the Record Metro Credit Union recently donated $5,000 to the Chelsea Collaborative, the second installment of a five-year commitment totaling $25,000. The Chelsea Collaborative’s mission is to empower Chelsea residents and Chelsea organizations to bring about social, environmental and economic justice in the community. Robert M. Cashman, President and CEO of Metro...
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For Our Jewish Friends
There was a time, and it was not so long ago, when a good part of this city literally shut down during the Passover holiday. Those days are irretrievably gone and so too is the large population of Jewish people who once gave this city a great deal of its character. They have been...
The Easter Holiday is a Time for Reflection and Joy
Just about everything has changed in our lives during the past few decades. Nothing is the way it used to be anymore. It is a vastly changed Chelsea of today that celebrates the Easter holiday this weekend. As much as the city has changed, the celebration of the holiday remains essentially the same. Easter...
Lady Red Devil Tracksters Run Past Lynn Tech, Voke
The Chelsea High girls track & field team is off to a great start this season. The squad size is large, the energy is high, and the determination is growing. The team currently consists of 58 girls, 32 who are brand new to the team this year. “Many of our key members graduated last...
Sports 04-20-2011
The Chelsea High boys track team won its first two meets of the season, defeating Lynn Tech 105-31, and Northeast Regional Vocational School, 88-48. Senior captain Santos Hernandez led the way in both meets, capturing the 400 meter low hurdles and the 110 meter high hurdles against both opponents. Santos also took second place...
Obituaries 04-20-2011
Catina ‘Tina’ Tritto Chelsea resident Catina A. “Tina” ( Caccamesi ) Tritto of Chelsea, formerly of East Boston, died on April 19. She was the beloved wife of the late Joseph Tritto with whom she shared 37 years of marriage; loving mother of Frank Tritto of Lynn, James Tritto and his wife, Sandra, of...
Fire Guts House on Addison St.
Chelsea firefighters rescued a man who remained asleep even as he was surrounded by roaring flames, rumbling fire engines, and the noise of high-powered water hoses during a three-alarm blaze at 74 Addison St. that destroyed a residential building early Monday morning and left 12 people homeless. Chelsea Deputy Fire Chief Wayne Ulwick said...
Ash Leading Efforts on Energy, Looking for Help
Special to the Record Add climate change and environmental sustainability to City Manager Jay Ash’s seemingly endless list of priorities. Both in his municipal role and as president of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the regional planning agency for 101 communities in and around Greater Boston, Ash is emerging as a respected advocate for...
The Last House on Third Street was Harry German’s Home
The photograph above freezes in time forever what I have described as The Last House on Third Street. It was taken by Chelsea photographer Arnold Jarmak about 1980, when the city was coming back to life after a precipitous decline that had begun during the Great Depression and which intensified following the disastrous October,...
Trial Begins for Chelsea Man Accused of Murder
The trial has begun for the Chelsea man who allegedly fatally stabbed his roommate and stuffed him in a trash barrel last year. Fifty-year-old Israel Vasquez was stabbed to death during a fight with his 24-year-old roommate who dumped his body in a trash can and dragged it about a block away from the...
Police Briefs 04-14-2011
Monday, April 4 Jose Reyes-Prudencio, 58, 56 Hawthorne St., Chelsea, was arrested for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, indecent assault and battery on retarded person. Laise Prado, 22, 1214 Salem St., Malden, was arrested for disorderly conduct. John Morales, 25, 155 Chestnut St., Chelsea, was arrested on a default warrant....
Obituaries 04-14-2011
Anne Mazer Chelsea resident Anne (Shapiro) Mazer of Chelsea, born August 17, 1919, died April 4, 2011 surrounded by those who loved her dearly. She was 91 years young. A vital, active young mind trapped in a frail, failing body, she was the daughter of Minnie and Joseph Shapiro, whom she never stopped missing; the...
Tobin Bridge Repairs to Begin this Summer
The $40 million project to de-lead and repaint the Mystic portion of the Tobin Bridge and make structural repairs is set to begin this summer. The final design and scope of the project was approved in March and Massachusetts Department of Transportation officials will begin meeting with the affected communities of Chelsea and Charlestown...
Weatherization Project Brings Jobs, Savings, and Better Air to Chelsea
Special to the Record Dozens of Chelsea residents, construction union members, utility representatives and civic and community leaders gathered at the Carmel Street home of Alejandrina Rodriguez to kick off Chelsea’s weatherization pilot project. The program will weatherize up to 130 units of housing, cut residents’ energy bills, improve air quality, and create six...
Phunk Phenomenon Set for National Television Appearance
Tonight the Phunk Phenomenon dance team based out of the Everett studio led by Chelsea native Reia Briggs-Connor and her husband, Rick, will get some national exposure. The seven-member Phunk Phenomenon adult dance group will be appearing on the Music Television (MTV) show, “Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew” that airs at 10...
Chelsea Police going High Tech
Smart phones and laptops will soon be required equipment at roll calls in the Chelsea Police Department as the force is about to begin fighting crime in a much more technical way. Chief Brian Kyes announced last week that he has shuffled his department around in a way that allows him to have a...
Chelsea Architects Design New Social Center
The award-winning Chelsea architecture and master planning firm the Architectural Team has announced the ribbon-cutting of New England’s largest new social services center, The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. The 90,000-square-foot, $35 million brick-and-masonry building is another example of the Chelsea based firm’s long standing commitment...
Jelena Ivanis
The American Dream is alive and well in Chelsea with news that Chelsea High School senior Jelena Ivanis has been accepted to Harvard. Ivanis, a student supreme who has attended Chelsea Schools K-12, received the news last week. Her family came to Chelsea from Croatia in the 1990’s. According to Chelsea High School Principal...
The Red Sox
It is still a bit early and a bit cold, too, to be playing baseball. Perhaps it is the cold that is keeping the Red Sox from acting like the champions the sports writers predicted they were going to be. Before the season began last week, without so much as playing one game, some...
Police Briefs 04-07-2011
Monday, March 28 Jesus Zavala, 26, 116 Washington Ave., Chelsea, was arrested for operation of motor vehicle unlicensed, leaving scene of property damage, lights violation, stop sign violation, reckless operation of motor vehicle. Leonel Castro, 25, 9 Addison St., Chelsea, was arrested on warrants. Juan Ortiz, 20, 5 Jackson Sq., Boston, was arrested on...
Obituaries 04-07-2011
Louis Colombo Of Florida, formerly of Chelsea Louis Colombo of Naples, FL, formerly of Chelsea, died on March 27. He was 59 years old. He served in the US Army and was a veteran of the Vietnam War and the recipient of a National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal and Vietnam Campaign Medal....
What a View
on a clear, bright sunny day before the warmth has come to spring, the view from Chelsea’s Aadmiral’s Hhill is gorgeous.
Frank Kowalski Sr. Receives the 2011 Outstanding Citizen of the Year Award
Frank Kowalski Sr. received the Outstanding Citizen of the Year Award at the 2011 Chelsea Chamber of Commerce Installation and Officers’ Reception Friday night at Montvale Plaza in Stoneham. Master of Ceremonies Allan I. Alpert paid tribute to Kowalski, owner of Val’s Flowers, in the award presentation ceremony. “Frank has not only served the...
Office Building may Start to Hold Church Services
Broadway has traditionally been a business district, but a new proposal to locate a church in the middle of that busy business district has some in the City wondering if such changes in use are a positive step forward for the downtown. Alex and Sandra Umana of 965 Broadway, Chelsea, have proposed locating the...
