Chelsea Record Staff Twenty-two projects totaling nearly six million dollars in expenditures have been approved for completion as part of the city’s Capital Improvement Plan, City Manager Jay Ash announced Wednesday. The investment plan Ash has filed for FY’12 directs…
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Excel given the Go-ahead to Open Two more Charter Schools
The Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education has endorsed East Boston’s Excel Academy Charter School’s application for two new charter schools in Chelsea and Boston. Commissioner Mitchell Chester endorsed Excel’s plan late last week and it will need final…
Relay for Life Organizers Hold a Planning Session
In the ballroom of the Orient Heights Yacht Club a group of residents from Chelsea, East Boston and surrounding communities came together last week to begin planning for the neighborhood’s third annual Relay for Life–one of the American Cancer Society’s…
Oil Prices Going Up as Fuel Subsidies get Cut
The Republicans want to cut government spending. Translated simply – this means they want to stop giving poor people a break when they need it in order to get by among other initiatives they want to take to save money.…
Boys Hoop Team Defeats Revere, 57-54
The Chelsea High boys basketball team concluded their championship regular season in style and with a flourish with a 57-54 win over Revere in a non league encounter last Wednesday. The Red Devils, who will be hanging another Commonwealth Athletic…
Lady Red Devils Look to Tourney
Although the Chelsea High girls basketball team dropped its last two games of the season to Greater Lowell and Pope John this past week in a pair of close, hard fought contests, the Lady Red Devils, who finished with a…
Doctors Who Cared More about People than Making Money
In the modern history of this city, two doctors served the people here who couldn’t afford to pay them. Their names were Dr. Morris Clayman and Dr. Sam Klauber. In today’s world, if you are without money you can take…
Bunker Hill Day
Erasing the Bunker Hill Holiday in Suffolk County is a disgrace. It is an insult to all those who died or were wounded fighting the British at Bunker Hill in the name of the Revolution. The holiday, so say the…
Police Briefs 02-24-2011
Monday, February 14 Oscar Justiniano, 17, 21 Hawthorne St., Chelsea, was arrested on a felony warrant. Romero Artica, 42, 49 Shurtleff St., Chelsea, was arrested for assault and battery, resisting arrest. Tuesday, February 15 Ricardo De La Cruz-Sanchez, 25, 148…
Obituaries 02-24-2011
Margaret Costantini Of Peabody, formerly of East Boston Margaret (Moscatelli) Costantini of Peabody, formerly of East Boston, died on February 22 at the Radius Healthcare Facility in Danvers. She was 76 years old. Born in Boston, she was the daughter…