The owners of the old Forbes Lithograph property on Chelsea Creek have completed an initial meeting with the Conservation Commission that signals the beginning of a new process on the property. City Planner John DePriest said the owners, Yihe of…
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Threat at Chelsea High Ends up a Hoax, Wrong CHS
In a world where every threat to a school has to be taken seriously, that played out on Monday morning at Chelsea High when the schools were put on alert by a social media threat to “CHS” that turned out…
Secretary Pollack Would like Silver Line to go to Everett
Just as the Silver Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line gets ready to launch in Chelsea on April 21, State Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack said in a meeting in Boston that she would like to see it eventually expand to…
News Briefs
STUDENT DAY OF ACTION The Chelsea Collaborative is sponsoring a day of action for local students at the State House on Weds., April 18, to advocate for better funding for the schools. Director Gladys Vega said they will be advocating…
MS-13 Leader Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison
A leader of MS-13’s Enfermos Criminales Salvatrucha clique was sentenced today in federal court in Boston. Rafael Leoner Aguirre, a/k/a “Tremendo,” 22, a Salvadoran national, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 19 years in…
Strategic Scholarship Bootcamp Seminar Will Be Starting on April 29
Last summer two friends were chatting about how expensive college tuition is these days and the impending mounds of debt their collective six kids were most likely going to be faced with. The conversation continued and one of the moms…
Thomsen Holding Court:Legendary NBA Writer from Swampscott will Hold Book Signing in Winthrop
Swampscott resident Ian Thomsen, one of the nation’s leading sportswriters for the past three decades, will be in Winthrop on April 19 to talk about his new book, “The Soul of Basketball: The Epic Showdown Between Lebron, Kobe, Doc and…
MBTA Approve Funding of $50,000 for Red Line/Blue Line Connector Study
Linking the only two MBTA train lines that have no connection has been something residents in Chelsea and surrounding communities have been asking and waiting for since the 1970s. The Red Line/Blue Line Connector has long been a bone of…
Station of the Cross
Julio Figueroa as John The Apostle, Ramona Rodriguez as Mary Mother Of Jesus, and Kinian Lobo as Mary Madeline march in grief at Jesus’s suffering during the annual St. Rose of Lima Church’s Stations of the Cross throughout the streets…
CHS Students to Present ‘Shrek: The Musical’ This Weekend
When a village of fairytale characters is evicted from their home, they are forced to settle in a swamp to the displeasure of Shrek, the surly ogre that resides there. In exchange for the deed to the swamp, Shrek agrees…