Mystic Brewery, LLC has signed a lease and begun preparations to bring a Belgian-style brewery to Chelsea. Mystic Brewery will focus on making pre-industrial style beers, like those from Belgium, but with a distinct New England agricultural influence. The…
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Fire on Library Street
Another fire on Library Street, the second in two weeks, was beaten down by Chelsea firefighters earlier this week. No one was injured in the fire which gutted a three story building.
Capital Improvement Plan Filed by City Manager – $6 Million Available for Projects
Chelsea Record Staff Twenty-two projects totaling nearly six million dollars in expenditures have been approved for completion as part of the city’s Capital Improvement Plan, City Manager Jay Ash announced Wednesday. The investment plan Ash has filed for FY’12 directs…
Excel given the Go-ahead to Open Two more Charter Schools
The Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education has endorsed East Boston’s Excel Academy Charter School’s application for two new charter schools in Chelsea and Boston. Commissioner Mitchell Chester endorsed Excel’s plan late last week and it will need final…
Relay for Life Organizers Hold a Planning Session
In the ballroom of the Orient Heights Yacht Club a group of residents from Chelsea, East Boston and surrounding communities came together last week to begin planning for the neighborhood’s third annual Relay for Life–one of the American Cancer Society’s…
Oil Prices Going Up as Fuel Subsidies get Cut
The Republicans want to cut government spending. Translated simply – this means they want to stop giving poor people a break when they need it in order to get by among other initiatives they want to take to save money.…
Wind driven Fire Leaves 50 Homeless
A fire in a home on Marlboro Street spread to a six-family building on Library Street around 11 a.m. Tuesday. Two hours later, both buildings were wrecks, with smoke pouring from them and thousands of gallons of water being poured…
New Hotel gets Go ahead from City
The city’s Planning Board has approved initial plans submitted by officials of the Marriott Corporation for the construction of a Residence Inn to be located near to the Wyndham Hotel. Plans call for a full -fledged Residence Inn, exactly the…
City looking into 9-1-1 changes
Soon Chelsea residents might be dialing up Revere when they make an emergency 9-1-1 call. City Manager Jay Ash said the City is weighing a plan to regionalize the 9-1-1 dispatch center, combining efforts with Winthrop and Revere. Already, Revere…
Field Trip – Chelsea Students Spend the Day at MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) carries a stellar reputation worldwide, but ironically some students in Chelsea at the Eugene Wright Middle School – who live only a few miles away – had never heard of the famed institution until…