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…
Author: Josh Resnek
Governor Increases Fuel Assistance; Orders Utilities to Stop Shutoffs
Governor Deval Patrick is dramatically increasing the amount of money set aside for those having difficulties paying for home heating fuel throughout the state. At the same time, he ordered the Department of Public Utilities to ban heating shut-offs for…
Police Contract Negotiations Stuck at Wide Impasse
The officers of the Chelsea Police Department have been working without a contract for the past 20 months. In recent months, union representatives for the department, Officers Felix Rivera and Paul McCarthy, have been negotiating with Stephen Lisauska, the city’s…
Distinguished Fellow: Architectural Team President, Co-founder Robert Verrier Elected to AIA College of Fellows
Robert Verrier, the enigmatic and gifted managing partner of Chelsea’s Architectural Team, has been elected to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. For an architect, the award is the equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize for journalists. It is…
Warren Campaigning Hard: Visits Chelsea, Again
Call it running hard. Call it running smart. Call it what you will. US Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren visited Chelsea again earlier this week. It was Warren’s fourth time visiting the city and touring it or attending a private function…
Auditors Failed to Act on McLaughlin Salary
State auditors going over the Chelsaea Housing Authority’s books in 2005 apparently knew that disgraced former Chelsea Housing Authority executive director Michael McLaughlin was concealing his true salary from state officials. The auditors told him and urged him to seek…
Sen. Brown and Sen. Grassley Leading Federal Inquiry of CHA
The long reach of disgraced Chelsea Housing Authority executive director Mike McLaughlin’s perfidy has led to Iowa Senator Charles Grassley and our Senator Scott Brown demanding full explanations about policies at the CHA. “Senator Grassley is dealing with HUD,” Jill…
Investigation Widens into Jessica Cormier Murder
Monday’s funeral for Everett’s Jessica Cormier from the Smith Funeral Home, was quiet and dignified and it was extremely well attended. The court proceeding two hours after she was buried, where her assailant Clarence Earl Berry, 59, of Chelsea, was…
Morrie Seigal Deserves a Gold Medal
Whenever I run into Morrie Seigal I am always amazed at his love for life and I am always especially amazed, even touched, by the fact that he remains a relevant public voice in this city well into the eighth…
McLaughlin Was Everywhere, but in Chelsea
Disgraced Chelsea Housing Authority executive director Mike McLaughlin, it turns out, was rarely at his job, conducted business by phone from Florida or his home in Dracut and spent so little time in Chelsea that his claims for salary, vacation…