Letter from the Chelsea Young Adult Alliance: Today, the Chelsea Young Adult Alliance publicly calls for change in policies and practices that uphold a system of prejudice, discrimination, and racism in education, housing, public health, and public safety. We call…
Month: August 2020
RMV Announces 2020 Low Plate Lottery
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) has announced that applications for the 2020 Low Number Plate Lottery are now being accepted online at Mass.Gov/RMV using the Online Service Center. Senator Sal DiDomenico was recently honored as a 2020 Legislative Reception Award…
CPPA Endorsements for Sept. 1 Democratic Primary Races
Chinese Progressive Political Action (CPPA) is excited to announce its endorsement of five candidates for the Massachusetts Democratic Primary Election on September 1. •U.S. Senate: Ed Markey •State Rep. 2nd Suffolk: Damali Vidot Chinese Progressive Political Action (CPPA) endorsed candidates…
Major Work on Mystic/Tobin Bridge in Late August to Close Lanes
Over the weekends of August 28 and September 11, Route 1 will experience lane closures. Where Route 1 passes through the Chelsea Viaduct portion of the combined Tobin Bridge/Chelsea Curves Rehabilitation Project, southbound (towards Boston) will be reduced to a single…
Northeast Metro Tech Announces Fall Reopening Hybrid Plan
Superintendent David DiBarri announces that students will follow a hybrid teaching model this fall for the start of the 2020-21 school year. The reopening plans combines recommendations and guidelines from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) for all…
DiSilva Fruit Donates 300,000 lbs of Fresh Produce to Chelsea Collaborative Food Pantry and Other Organizations
DiSilva Fruit, an Arrowfarms company, believes it’s more important than ever to help your neighbors. Supporting food security in the local community is one of the company’s long standing priorities, and with the Covid-19 pandemic leaving so many more families…
MBTA Increases Bus Service for Most Chelsea Routes on Aug. 30
The MBTA announced a new, COVID-19 informed fall bus schedule, and it means more service than current levels on virtually every route in Chelsea while cutting back on suburban and downtown Boston routes that are seeing sharp declines in ridership.…
Save the U.S. Post Office
The unprecedented efforts to undermine the operations of the U.S. Postal Service by President Donald Trump and the Republicans are not even a thinly-veiled attempt to make sure that mail-in voting in the November election during this unprecedented pandemic will…
New Stimulus Bill Is Desperately Needed
As we all have learned by now, the so-called Executive Order (if any of it is even legal) recently issued by President Donald Trump two weeks ago amounts to all talk and no action. It does not stop any evictions…
Op-Ed: A Commitment to Transparency
By Joe Gravellese, Candidate for State Representative My campaign was recently endorsed by Act on Massachusetts – an organization dedicated to increasing transparency in our historically secretive state government. They endorsed me in part because I am one of dozens…