For nearly three years, there have been shout downs at City Council meetings, immovable positions from the City, and even very public and embarrassing picket lines in the contentious negotiation process between the Chelsea Patrol Officers Union and the City.…
Author: Seth Daniel
Two Deaths, Believed Suspicious, Under Investigation
Chelsea Police detectives and State Police homicide detectives are investigating the suspicious deaths of an Everett man and woman in Chelsea early Monday morning, according to Chelsea Chief Brian Kyes and Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley. After a 9-1-1…
Tsarnaev: Fireworks and Burgers on Admiral’s Hill?
It has largely been reported over the last week – first in the New York Times – that one month before the Marathon Bombing, suspect Dhokhar Tsarnaev showed up at an old friend’s house in Admiral’s Hill, culminating the unannounced…
National Salvation Army Week to Kick off Monday in Chelsea
National Salvation Army week will kick off in Chelsea this coming Monday, with a full-scale luncheon by invitation and awards ceremony at the Wyndham Hotel. The invitation-only luncheon will begin what is hoped to be another successful week of alerting…
Secretary Likes What He Sees in Chelsea Business Community
Chelsea is on the map when it comes to statewide economic development, and one top state official was in town last week to take in the scene firsthand – and to offer up assistance to keep the ball rolling. Greg…
Fire Study: CFD Sees Major Flaws in Key Recommendations
The Chelsea Fire Department (CFD) said this week that it has detected major holes in a key recommendation from the Matrix Fire Study to streamline the department and reduce medical aid calls – specifically by relying more on a system…
McLaughlin Sentencing Moved Back
The long-awaiting sentencing of former Chelsea Housing Authority Director Michael McLaughlin has been postponed for more than one month. McLaughlin was supposed to be sentenced in Federal Court by Judge Douglas Woodlock on May 14th, but last week McLaughlin’s attorney,…
Holiday Inn Express Close to Reality
Partners in the Residence Inn hotel development on Maple Street are pushing forward quickly to clean up a vacant property and develop a second hotel on the property, which abuts Route 1 and is directly across from Chelsea High School.…
An Art Heist in Chelsea?: Hard to Believe,but It Happened
When one thinks of art heists, they think of the Gardner Museum, or palatial European galleries with centuries-old masterpieces. They think of crafty burglars evading laser beam security systems and seasoned safecrackers breaking impossibly-encrypted access codes. There wouldn’t be too…
Fire Study: Prioritizing Calls,Coordinating Dispatch Will Reduce Stress on Fire Department
The long-awaited, top-to-bottom Fire Department Study by the Matrix Company pretty much said what most intelligent observers have thought for years – the Fire Department should stop sending fire trucks to minor car accidents, to people at home with small…