By DA Rachael Rollins (The following statement is in regard to the release of a convicted sex offender and rapist in Dorchester through the efforts of the Massachusetts Bail Fund in July. The DA’s office has brought charges against the…
Month: August 2020
Op-Ed: The Urgency of the Moment
By Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), and Roseann Bongiovanni, Executive Director, GreenRoots, Inc. Today, we acknowledge the 200th day since the first reported COVID-19 death in Massachusetts. This public health emergency is unprecedented, but it’s hard…
Op-Ed: School Reopening Plans
By Thomas Scott and Robert N. Baldwin, Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents (MASS) Across the Commonwealth, school districts are beginning to announce their plans for the start of the 2020-2021 school year. Some communities are choosing not to reopen school buildings,…
Letter to the Editor
I Support Damali Vidot To the Editor, We are living through a crisis, and the people in charge have failed us. Gov. Charlie Baker has decided that business interests matter more than people’s lives, and the Legislature has only taken…
CHS Class of 2020
Fire Crew Exhausted After Battling Four-Alarm Blaze
By Paul Koolloian On Tuesday, August 11, Chelsea Fire Department responded to 34 Hooper St. for a report of a building fire. Revere Firefighters working a detail on Broadway opposite Revere City Hall observed heavy smoke showing from the area…
State Representative Candidates Face Off in MassVote Online Forum
State Rep. Dan Ryan and Chelsea Councilor and state representative candidate Damali Vidot faced off in one of the first debates of this strange and unique election season – and yet another unique piece was there was no stage. Both…
Plan Made: School Committee in Agreement on Fully Remote Learning
The Chelsea Public Schools switched gears from its initial school re-opening plan this week, and presented a fully remote online plan to start the school year in September – a plan the School Committee adopted enthusiastically with an 8-0 vote.…
To Survive, City Manager Says Downtown Needs to Be More Dense
City Manager Tom Ambrosino said he believes that if Chelsea’s downtown is going to survive COVID-19, it has to become a more dense area with more living units and businesses to serve those new residents. To accommodate that, he is…
Residents Urged to Take Precautions to Avoid Mosquito Bites
At a meeting on Monday night, Chelsea Board of Health and area health officials warned residents to take simple, common-sense precautions to avoid getting bit by mosquitoes this summer and fall. That’s because of an increased risk of two different…