The Chelsea community lost one of our good ones with the sudden passing of Maurice “Rick” Cromwell Jr. on New Year’s Eve. Rick was a lifelong Chelsea resident who enjoyed a long and successful career in the food and hospitality…
Category: Editorials
Guest Op-Ed: Please, Stop the Violence
Dr. Glenn Mollette Acts of violence against a marriage partner have never saved a marriage. Violent acts toward family members have never made a family happier. Typically, they create emotional and sometimes physical wounds that are never forgotten. Too many…
Emissions Bill is a Big Step for the Environment
The approval on Monday by both houses of the Massachusetts legislature of a bill that requires the state to reduce its carbon emissions by at least 85% below 1990 levels by 2050 represents a huge step toward the goal of…
Anthony C. Simboli
The recent passing of Anthony C. Simboli marks the end of an era in the recent development and history of the City of Chelsea. For almost four decades, Mr. Simboli’s company, ACS Development Corp., played the major role in the resurrection…
Letters to the Editor
Thank You to Chelsea Public Works Commissioner To the Editor; The Zonta Club of Chelsea and North Shore would like to publicly extend a special Thank You to Public Works Commissioner, Fidel Maltez, for the use of a city message…
Guest Op-Ed: Council has been Effective in Moving the City Forward in COVID-19
By Councillor Leo Robinson (As delivered at Monday night’s Organizational Council meeting) I have served on the City Council for 30 years as an At Large Councilor. Starting in the 1980’s when it was a Mayor form of governance, when…
Guest Op-Ed: Responders Need Vaccine Now
By Senator Sal DiDomenico One of the greatest bright spots of 2020 and now leading into this New Year has been the speedy development and subsequent rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. For the first time in many months, we are…
Have a Happy — and Safe — New Year
The arrival of a new year marks a time for reflection, as to both the year that has passed and the year that lies ahead. In the words of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson: Ring out the old, ring in…
K.C. Jones Always Was First-Class
For those of us who are old enough to remember the great Boston Celtics teams of the 1960s, the passing this week of K.C. Jones, an integral member of that championship dynasty, is bittersweet. K.C. Jones led an incredible life,…
The True Spirit of Christmas
The Christmas season usually is the most wonderful time of the year. But Christmas, 2020, is anything but wonderful. We are undergoing a degree of hardship unlike any that we have experienced in our lifetime. More Americans are dying each…