Six months after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, many areas of the country outside the tourist hot spots are still in crumbling disrepair – some without electricity since the first storm, Hurricane Irma – and residents of the island…
Month: April 2018
Rita Kalnejais’s ‘First Love is the Revolution’ to Play at Apollinaire
Apollinaire Theatre Company presents the US Premiere of this viciously funny and unforgettable play about first love, teenage lust, and nature vs nurture. Rdeca is a young fox keen to test boundaries, whose curiosity lands her in a makeshift trap…
Council Passes Unique Pilot for Students, Not Everyone on Board
The Chelsea City Council passed a unique pilot program by a vote of 8-2 on Monday night that would allow qualifying students at Chelsea High an opportunity to finish their Associate’s Degree after high school on the City’s dime. The…
Forbes Owners Back to Conservation Commission to Start Over
The owners of the old Forbes Lithograph property on Chelsea Creek have completed an initial meeting with the Conservation Commission that signals the beginning of a new process on the property. City Planner John DePriest said the owners, Yihe of…
Threat at Chelsea High Ends up a Hoax, Wrong CHS
In a world where every threat to a school has to be taken seriously, that played out on Monday morning at Chelsea High when the schools were put on alert by a social media threat to “CHS” that turned out…
Secretary Pollack Would like Silver Line to go to Everett
Just as the Silver Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line gets ready to launch in Chelsea on April 21, State Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack said in a meeting in Boston that she would like to see it eventually expand to…
News Briefs
STUDENT DAY OF ACTION The Chelsea Collaborative is sponsoring a day of action for local students at the State House on Weds., April 18, to advocate for better funding for the schools. Director Gladys Vega said they will be advocating…
MS-13 Leader Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison
A leader of MS-13’s Enfermos Criminales Salvatrucha clique was sentenced today in federal court in Boston. Rafael Leoner Aguirre, a/k/a “Tremendo,” 22, a Salvadoran national, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 19 years in…
Strategic Scholarship Bootcamp Seminar Will Be Starting on April 29
Last summer two friends were chatting about how expensive college tuition is these days and the impending mounds of debt their collective six kids were most likely going to be faced with. The conversation continued and one of the moms…
Thomsen Holding Court:Legendary NBA Writer from Swampscott will Hold Book Signing in Winthrop
Swampscott resident Ian Thomsen, one of the nation’s leading sportswriters for the past three decades, will be in Winthrop on April 19 to talk about his new book, “The Soul of Basketball: The Epic Showdown Between Lebron, Kobe, Doc and…