I last saw Bobby Hinckley at Katz’s Bagels on a Sunday about one month ago. For the past 20 years, we’d meet there almost every Sunday morning. He didn’t look good and he said so. “I’m pretty sick,” he told…
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City leaders to host Public Safety Forum
City leaders will convene a forum Thursday night at Chelsea High School to discuss public safety issues following a double homicide on Chester Avenue, which has caused so much angst throughout the city. The double homicide and four others committed…
Chelsea Provident Cooperative celebrates 125th anniversary
It wouldn’t be Broadway without a Chelsea Provident Cooperative Bank right smack in the middle of the city’s busiest street. For it’s been 125 years that the city has been home to the well-known banking institution, having been founded on…
Chelsea Collaborative facilitates meeting addressing violence
On the evening of Monday, September 13, the Chelsea Collaborative hosted and facilitated a meeting between 16 local Pastors and Chief of Police, Brian Kyes. This meeting was convened specifically to involve local religious leaders in the response to the…
Man held in double murder
A suspect has been arrested and charged with the shooting deaths of two Chelsea men last week in a Chester Avenue apartment. Steven Andre, 22, was taken into custody without a fight by State and Chelsea Police Detectives Tuesday. He…
DiDomenico tops Flaherty in State Senate race
In extremely close balloting throughout the sprawling senatorial district, State Senator Sal DiDomenico beat Cambridge Attorney Tim Flaherty by 172 votes. DiDomenico bested Flaherty in Chelsea, 721-701. In results from all the cities and towns, almost 13,000 voters cast ballots.…
Meeting discusses brutal slayings
As a result of the two murders Monday on Chester Avenue, Chelsea now has six homicides for the year, which is causing consternation with everyone concerned with the well-being and the safety of the city’s residents. City Manager Jay Ash…
Down to the wire – DiDomenico and Flaherty sprint to the finish line; Cambridge is key
In another week, the voters decide if they want to send Senator Sal DiDomenico back to the senate or to send Attorney Tim Flaherty to the senate to take his place. Both candidates are pulling out all the stops in…
Police hunt murderers of two Chelsea men
State Police detectives and Chelsea police are hunting down the men who gunned down two Chelsea young men in their apartment early Monday morning. Angel Acevedo, 25, and Jenret Appleberry, 26, were apparently executed at close range by gunmen around…
The double homicide on Chester Avenue
An apartment on Chester Avenue early in the morning earlier this week. The city is asleep. Two Chelsea young men are asleep at 95 Chester Avenue – and there are others inside the apartment. An assailant or assailants come to…