EDITOR’S NOTE: Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous holds an open meeting for those fighting food dependency and addiction at the Chelsea Soldiers Home, 91 Crest Avenue, Monday nights at 7:00 p.m. Meetings open and free to anyone having trouble with…
Author: Josh Resnek
Grossman Visits Chelsea Restaurant
State Treasurer Steve Grossman toured the Dockside Restaurant in the Marketbasket Mall Tuesday afternoon. The Dockside was a recipient of a $250,000 loan made by The Savings Bank of Wakefield and leveraged through the Treasury’s Small Business Banking Partnership. Grossman…
Voters Crush Pro-casino Candidates in Foxboro
In a stunning development, Robert Kraft and Steve Wynn, vying with Suffolk Downs for a casino license, have pulled out of the competition following the town wide vote taken in Foxboro Monday. In Monday’s election, Foxboro, voters elected two candidates…
FBI Coming to Chelsea City Manager Ash Insists
Rumors appearing to establish that the FBI is not moving into Chelsea are just that – rumors, according to Chelsea City Manager Jay Ash. “A long and very expensive lease has been entered into by the General Services Administration for…
The Great Chelsea Fire of 1908
Last week marked the 104th anniversary of the Great Chelsea Fire. It was a conflagration that changed forever the history of this city. In fact, the fire erased more history than it created. In doing so on a windy Palm…
Washington Park Redevelopment Draws Criticism, Questions from Some Residents
An $850,000 planned redevelopment of Washington Park is drawing the attention of Councillor Paul Murphy and a number of local residents as well as the owner of area businesses fearing the redoing of the park will not only destroy a…
A Better Board is in Charge
One thing is certain – the new Chelsea Housing Authority Board of Directors are not to be told what to do. The days when disgraced former executive chair of the authority Mike McLaughlin told the old board how it was…
O’flaherty Mulling over Committee Change
Representative Gene O’Flaherty says he is contemplating resigning from his chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee, which he has headed for almost a decade. If things don’t change, he will likely be leaving in December, he told the Patriot-Bridge earlier…
Warm and Snowless Winter Good for 2013 City Budget
The salt piles on Marginal Street rise up full and high toward the sky in mid-March and they’ve been in that shape and form all winter during a season that never really arrived. The unusually snowless and iceless winter has…
Leo Sevinor, Dead at 95
When Leo Sevinor was growing up in Chelsea during the 1930s, his late father Ralph Sevinor purchased one of the last remaining farms in Marblehead. That farm spread from Wares Pond almost to Tent’s Corner, where the Marblehead Bank is…