The Money Management Program at Mystic Valley Elder Services (MVES) assists older adults and people with disabilities with budgeting, bill paying and keeping track of financial matters. MVES recently accepted generous donations and sponsorships from the following: • Brookline Bank…
Month: December 2022
News In Briefs
Postal Service Ready for The Holidays At the Postal Service, we know the holidays are a hectic time of year. To make shipping convenient for customers, the Postal Service is extending hours at Post Offices across the nation. Select Postal…
ZBA Approves Special Permit for Marijuana Dispensary
The Zoning Board of Appeals approved a special permit for a retail marijuana dispensary at 320 Revere Beach Parkway last week, despite concerns raised by some city councilors that the business wasn’t the best fit for the Prattville neighborhood. The…
DiDomenico Named Caucus Co-Chair and Is a Host Of Ending Hunger Forum
DiDomenico Named Caucus Co-Chair and Is a Host of Ending Hunger Forum Senator DiDomenico joined his Food System Caucus (FSC) Co-Chairs in hosting a forum and strategy session about how Massachusetts can end hunger and tackle diet-related diseases this decade.…
New Round of Applications for Chelsea Eats Program Open
The popular Chelsea Eats program, which was launched in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, is returning on a smaller scale for the first three months of the new year. City Manager Thomas Ambrosino said the program will be funded with…
MAPC Awards More Than $800K in “Accelerating Climate Resilience” Grants to 13 Municipal Projects
Thirteen projects in the greater Boston region including one in Chelsea will soon put more than $800,000 to work advancing local climate change resilience, thanks to a new round of “Accelerating Climate Resilience” grant funding announced this week. Municipalities will implement strategies that protect people, places, and communities from…
EBNHC Hosts Listening Session
On Thursday, December 15, East Boston Neighborhood Health was proud to host a listening session with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Director Melanie Fontes Rainer on President Biden’s Executive Order on Securing…
Merry Christmas
This is the most wonderful time of the year, to paraphrase the popular song, with holiday music playing in the malls and on our car radios, resurrecting our earliest childhood memories of Christmases-past. We choose just the right tree, decorate…
Thank You And Congratulations, Tom Ambrosino
We wish to offer our congratulations to our City Manager, Tom Ambrosino, who was named last week to the position of Chief Administrator of the Massachusetts Trial Courts by the justices of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). Tom previously…
A Great World Cup
We don’t claim to be big soccer fans, but even we were caught up in the excitement and the drama of the World Cup, which reached its climax this past Sunday with the exhilarating victory by Argentina in a shoot-out…