Now that the city can bargain in good faith with its employees to maintain their city paid health insurance and to save money on premiums that are coming close to bankrupting the city, watch what City Manager Jay Ash will…
Category: Editorials
The Marriott is on Its Way
The Marriott Hotel Corporation is going to locate a Residence Inn in Chelsea. They filed papers at city hall last week of their intent – which turns out to be a rather ironic moment for the worldwide firm noted for…
Helen Cesareo
The death of Helen Cesareo last week brings to mind the old days at city hall when she was a department head in pre-receivership Chelsea. She was a competent, well mannered, thoughtful lady, the type who was known by nearly…
The Snow Storm
We urge everyone shoveling snow to refrain from shoveling the white stuff into the streets that have just been plowed. We must move forward not backward and shoveling snow into the street is moving in the wrong direction. In a…
The Patriots Versus the Jets
It is coming to be the bet of the year – the Pats versus the Jets. The series is even at 1-1 and as all sports fans would agree, anything can happen in a given day in the National Football…
The Tragedy in Tucson
Like people all over the nation, Chelsea residents have been horrified by the tragic killings and shootings in Arizona. Six dead and 13 wounded innocents is a bit hard to grasp given their lives were eneded or dramatically changed because…
The Foreclosure Nightmare
Chelsea is among the hardest hit communities when it comes to homeowners being foreclosed upon. This is not a surprise. When the real estate market was soaring, Chelsea soared with it, though not as fast as in higher income communities.…
Stacee Monkiewicz
We know how the entire Monkiewicz family has been sent into a state of deep despair by the death of Stacee Monkiewicz. She died on December 22 of a catastrophic sudden illness at her home. She was 41. She leaves…
Out with the Old, in with the New
Another year of our lives is coming to a close. The year is ending not with a bang, but rather, with a whimper, as TS Eliot might have written of it. It was the best of years. It was the…
Christmas 2010
Christmas 2010 will go down in history as a great holiday celebration. Peace on earth. Good will to men. It is, indeed, all about that. If there was no Internet, evening news, radio talk shows or morning newspapers, and if…