Month: September 2023
Preliminary Election Sees Races in Districts 4 and 7
Polls will be open for Districts 4 and 7 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the municipal preliminary election on Tuesday, Sept. 26. The preliminary election is for District Four for City Council and District Seven for School Committee…
Council Could Select New City Manager in Early October
The City Council could vote on selecting a new City Manager as soon as Monday, Oct. 2. The Council was expected to receive the names of the finalists for the position from the City Manager Screening Committee at a special…
Council Looking for Answers on Youth Football
City Councilors discussed the recent troubles surrounding the Chelsea Pride Football and Cheer team at its Monday night meeting. During the public speaking portion of the Sept. 11 council meeting, several parents informed the council that the Chelsea Pride team…
ZBA To Take Up Veterans’ Home Project at October Meeting
The Zoning Board of Appeals approved several projects at its monthly meeting last week, while the largest proposal on the agenda was continued to next month’s meeting. The Veterans’ Home in Chelsea project will come before the ZBA in October.…
Public Health Warning Issued Related to Recent Sewage Discharge
The following is a public health warning related to a recent sewage discharge, also known as a combined sewer overflow CSO). State regulations require local public health departments to provide notice to the public when these discharges may create a…
DJ Workshop Project Launched in Partnership With Youth Elemento
On Friday, September 15th in the music room at Youth Elemento, seven young adults opened up their laptops and took part in the first of the four-part DJ Workshop Project. The DJ Workshop Project was created by Devra Sari Zabot/Clark…
Chelsea Walk Pub Sees Hours Cut As It Plans Reopening
The Licensing Commission voted to roll back the hours of the Chelsea Walk Pub due to a May violation of the city’s video surveillance policy. At last week’s meeting, the commission also approved a new manager for the Broadway bar,…
Officials Raise Risk for EEE to High in Three More Communities
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) last week announced that Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) has been detected in an additional mosquito sample collected on September 13 in Brimfield. This finding raises the EEE risk level to high in Brimfield,…
Community Leader Vanessa Calderon Rosado Will Receive Governor’s Award in Humanities
Special to the Record Mass Humanities will present one of its Governor’s Awards in the Humanities to Vanessa Calderon-Rosado, CEO of Inquilinos Boricuas en Accino, Boston, at an awards ceremony Sept. 28 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and…