As part of the Baker-Polito Administration’s celebration of Earth Week in Massachusetts, Gov. Charles Baker last week joined state and local officials at the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) bunker to sign a new Executive Order building on the Administration’s…
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Kitty Connection Spring Online Auction Starts This Friday
Kitty Connection, an all-volunteer nonprofit dedicated to rescuing and finding safe, loving homes for local cats and dogs, will hold an Online Spring Silent Auction from 8 a.m. Friday, April 30 through 8 p.m. Monday, May 3 at www.myminiauction.com/kittyconnection. “Just in time for…
MVES Warns Risk of Shingles Increases With Age
Just recently, a Mystic Valley Elder Services consumer’s grandmother was diagnosed with shingles. She always thought that was an old-fashioned disease that no one got anymore. But shingles has never disappeared. In fact, each year, approximately 1 million Americans will…
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Excellent Choice: Candace Perez Named Chelsea’s Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
City Manager Thomas Ambrosino has announced that Candace Perez of New York City has been hired as the city’s first Director of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Perez will begin in her new position on June 28. Her…
Researchers Concerned, Studying Nearsightedness in Children
Prior to the advent of remote schooling on electronic devices ushered in by COVID-19, doctors and researchers at the Children’s Vision Lab in the Back Bay’s New England College of Optometry (NECO) were concerned about how those devices might be…
Joseph M. Vinard Announces Retirement from East Cambridge
Special To The Chelsea Record East Cambridge Savings Bank announced that Joseph M. Vinard, division president of Chelsea Bank, a division of the Bank, will retire on April 30. Mr. Vinard’s career in banking spans 54 years including his role…
Police Pioneer Training Program
The Chelsea Police Department and the MIT Center for Ethics and Transformative Leadership collaborated this past spring on a unique police training program looking to build empathy and compassion into implicit bias training programs. Acting on an existing relationship with…
Night Shift Brewery Teams Up With Encore For Restaurant Concept
With more than 20 taps available, great food coming from the kitchen and a full-scale brewery headquarters just down the street, Night Shift Brewery of Everett and Encore Boston Harbor cut the ribbon last Thursday on a new, extended partnership…
Announcing the 25th Annual Mystic Herring Run and Paddle
Come run with the herring- literally! Join the Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA) from May 9-25 to celebrate the annual return of the herring. Each spring over 700,000 herring swim from Boston Harbor to the Mystic Lakes–the Herring Run and…