The Evening News with Walter Cronkite evokes a time, the years 1967-1971, and the shift in ideals and experience through the closely observed eyes of Jack Krivitsky. He goes off to college in 1967 straddling two worlds: the upper middle…
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Lord Stanley, Meet Captain Chara
One of our photographers grabbed this historic shot Thursday morning of Boston Bruins Captain Zdeno Chara exiting the charter plane at Logan Airport while hoisting the Stanley Cup into the air. A small group of fans were there to cheer…
Controversy Erupts at Local Meeting on Factory Variance
About 15 members of the Lower Broadway community exchanged sometimes heated and passionate feelings about the proposed tortilla factory, which seeks to move into the old Kayem property on Winisimmet Street if the city’s zoning board of appeals allows it.…
City Council Approves $115 Million Budget
How much will it cost to run the City of Chelsea in the next fiscal year that starts on July 1? The answer is $115M. And the number became official when the Chelsea City Council on Tuesday evening gave its…
Navigation Channel Under Chelsea Bridge Under Consideration for Dredging in 2012
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District is proposing to perform maintenance dredging of the Federal navigation channel in the vicinity of the Chelsea Street Bridge in Chelsea and East Boston by 2012. The replacement of the existing…
Bridge Closing Chelsea Street Bridge Closing Starts June 1 goes through Dec.1
Beginning on Wednesday June 1 at 12:00 a.m. and continuing through Thursday, December 1 the Chelsea Street bridge that connects Chelsea to East Boston will be closed to allow work crews to demolish the existing bridge and construct the remaining…
Chelsea Street Bridge Closing not the End of the World but Close to it
The closing of the Chelsea Street Bridge until December is a nightmare of the first order. However, city officials here and in Boston have been in communication for quite some time and have made plans to deal with the situation…
Chelsea Students Place Third in Statewide Banking Bowl
Students from Chelsea High School representing Metro Credit Union earned the third place award in the Marketing Competition as well as in the Product Development Competition at the recent Massachusetts School Bank Association Spring Conference. Student teams from 24 financial…
Crime Drops 10% in 2010
Despite an extraordinary hike in homicides, the year 2010 was as good as it gets when it comes to a significantly dropping overall crime rate, it was revealed with statistics released by the Chelsea Police Department. According to crime statistics…
Walk For Hunger
Chelsea resident Amanda Moorhouse and her fellow Kettle Cuisine teammates got excited for Project Bread’s 43rd Walk for Hunger.The team joined 42,000 walkers and volunteers to help raise $3.6 million dollars for 446 emergency food programs across the state.The funds…