The Chelsea Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) met on Tuesday, March 13th, and after reviewing a proposed project change by Muffin Town on Crescent Avenue, gave the go-ahead for the company to install an outdoor liquid Nitrogen tank. Muffin Town,…
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Two Chelsea Residents Wounded in Shooting
An early morning shooting Monday has left two Chelsea residents wounded. The shooting occured at 1:30 a.m. in the area of 460 Broadway. Responding officers observed the first victim, later identified as Ricardo Rodriguez, 23, of Chelsea lying in the…
City Council Adopts New Priorities
The City Council has adopted a list of eleven goals for municipal government for its two-year term. City Council President Leo Robinson said the exercise is meant to formally communicate to the Administration what the Council feels is important and…
Market Basket hosts Spars grocers from around the world
Seventy grocers from around the world visited the Market Basket Tuesday afternoon for a first hand look at one of the largest, most inventive and successful supermarkets of its kind in the nation. Those grocers the Record spoke with said…
Chelsea Rises Up Against Ethanol
Activists from Chelsea Greenspace, elected officials and other residents were out in full force to protest Global Oil’s plan to bring the hazardous material Ethanol through Chelsea to its storage facility on the East Boston/Revere line. At a Department of…
Receivership Ends for CHA
This past Friday did not only represent the end of a hard work week, but also it represented the end of the hard work associated with the last four months of receivership at the Chelsea Housing Authority (CHA). Determining that…
Audit Report Detailed Virtually No Controls
One of the first moves of former Chelsea Housing Authority (CHA) Receiver Judith Weber was to hire a professional number cruncher to weed through the sticky, convoluted financial records that had been created and left by the deposed former administration.…
Call It Hotel Row
The Wyndham Hotel is shown in the foreground. In the background of this image taken Tuesday afternoon is the new Marriott rising. By itself, the Wyndham would suffice as the only hotel for a city this size. But now we…
Looking at Success: The Remaking of the Old Marketbasket Building is a Chelsea Business Miracle
Less than 2 years ago, the Demoulas Family put back to use the building that housed the old MarketBasket. The new MarketBasket had opened. Hundreds came to be employed there. The old building was shuttered. With the backing of Chelsea…
Chelsea Fire Department Review Firm Ready to Start
The long-awaited top-to-bottom review of the Chelsea Fire Department is nearly ready to being, according to City Manager Jay Ash. This week, the City inked a contract with an independent reviewer to conduct the work and to set a timeline…