Excellent Choice: Candace Perez Named Chelsea’s Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
City Manager Thomas Ambrosino has announced that Candace Perez of New York City has been hired as the city’s first Director of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Perez will begin in her new position on June 28. Her…
Researchers Concerned, Studying Nearsightedness in Children
Prior to the advent of remote schooling on electronic devices ushered in by COVID-19, doctors and researchers at the Children’s Vision Lab in the Back Bay’s New England College of Optometry (NECO) were concerned about how those devices might be…
Joseph M. Vinard Announces Retirement from East Cambridge
Special To The Chelsea Record East Cambridge Savings Bank announced that Joseph M. Vinard, division president of Chelsea Bank, a division of the Bank, will retire on April 30. Mr. Vinard’s career in banking spans 54 years including his role…
Police Pioneer Training Program
The Chelsea Police Department and the MIT Center for Ethics and Transformative Leadership collaborated this past spring on a unique police training program looking to build empathy and compassion into implicit bias training programs. Acting on an existing relationship with…
Night Shift Brewery Teams Up With Encore For Restaurant Concept
With more than 20 taps available, great food coming from the kitchen and a full-scale brewery headquarters just down the street, Night Shift Brewery of Everett and Encore Boston Harbor cut the ribbon last Thursday on a new, extended partnership…
Announcing the 25th Annual Mystic Herring Run and Paddle
Come run with the herring- literally! Join the Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA) from May 9-25 to celebrate the annual return of the herring. Each spring over 700,000 herring swim from Boston Harbor to the Mystic Lakes–the Herring Run and…
State Awards $3.8 Million to 31 Youth Substance-Use Prevention Programs
The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) and the Department of Public Health (DPH) announced $3.8 million in annual grants to 31 youth substance use prevention programs serving communities across the Commonwealth – including programs in Boston and…
News Briefs
Senior Center Offers COVID Vaccines This Weekend Weekend FREE COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic at the Chelsea Senior Center (10 Riley Way, behind the Fire Station/Across from City Hall). •Friday, April 23, from 3-7 p.m. 200 doses of Pfizer available. •Saturday, April…
Building a City Center Serving Six Cities
By Amy Dain Quick quiz: What is the biggest growth district in Massachusetts outside of the city of Boston right now? Did you guess Kendall Square? Cambridge Crossing? Somerville’s Union Square? Watertown’s Arsenal Street? Quincy Center? Lynn’s waterfront? Revere Beach?…
People of Chelsea: Father Edgar: St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
By Darlene DeVita (The following is one in a series of sneak peeks at the upcoming People of Chelsea additions by Photographer Darlene DeVita. The new work will ultimately appear on the fence of the Chelsea Public Library (CPL) this…
East Cambridge Savings Bank Names Joseph A. Amoroso, Jr. Chairman of the Board
1854 Bancorp, the holding company for East Cambridge Savings Bank, at its annual meeting in March named Cambridge resident and attorney Joseph A. Amoroso, Jr. as Chairman of the Board. Amoroso will serve as Chairman of the Board for both…