PROJECT BREAD SUPPORTS ‘FOOD AND FUN’ FOR CHELSEA KIDS THIS SUMMER
$225,900 in statewide grants aim to help families cope with food and gas crisis

June 27, 2008 — EAST BOSTON — When school is out, kids who rely on free or reduced-price school meals need a safe place to go where they can get a healthy meal and have some summer fun. That’s why Project Bread is providing $3,000 in incentive grants to the Summer Food Service Program in Chelsea in an effort to help families cope with the skyrocketing cost of food and gas.

Our census correspondent, Mats Tolander, reports the latest government estimates show Suffolk County gained about 3,000 new residents in 2007 over 2006.

Fertility drugs at work in the South End?

Can you imagine how much more boring, and even worse, local coverage would get without the Herald? Let's compare the coverage of yesterday's King Arthur's Lounge murder in the Globe and Herald:

Bouncer, patrons shot. Chelsea, State Police investigating, Suffolk County DA's office confirms one death.

Yes, this is the same place made infamous in 1982 when Everett cops, summoned by a fellow officer in an argument with a patron, went on a beating rampage with baseball bats, tire irons and nightsticks that left one man dead.