Chelsea

Erin Murphy to stay a Boston city councilor

By adamg - 9/3/24 - 11:08 pm

Lisa Kashinsky reports Democratic voters in Suffolk County have picked Allison Cartwright, who has actual legal and managerial experience, as the next Suffolk County clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court. Read more.

Why Suffolk County voters elect a clerk for the state's highest court

By adamg - 9/2/24 - 6:21 pm

CommonWealth Beacon answers the local political question of the year: Why is one of the Supreme Judicial Court's two clerks elected by voters in Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop?

It's a fascinating historical story involving voter anger over the way the SJC back in the day refused to stand in the way of a fugitive slave being re-captured in Boston to be sent back into slavery down south in 1850. Doesn't explain why the post is still elected, but then again, this is Massachusetts, where if we did something once, we are often compelled to do it forever and ever.

State's highest court says experience matters and picks somebody with actual legal experience as one of its two clerks; Suffolk County voters next week will pick the other

By adamg - 8/28/24 - 10:59 pm

Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Kimberly Budd today swore in Maura Looney as the SJC's Clerk for the Commonwealth, replacing Francis Kenneally, who was appointed a judge in the district-court system earlier this year. Read more.

Another hazy sunset

By adamg - 8/17/24 - 9:53 pm

Sunset filtered through the Tobin and wildfire haze

Matt Frank watched the sun setting behind the Tobin Bridge, "filtered behind clouds and wildfire smoke."

Court upholds prison time for Chelsea woman convicted of sucking her elderly uncle's accounts dry

By adamg - 8/2/24 - 10:29 am

A Chelsea woman was fairly convicted and sentenced to 4 1/2 years in federal prison for draining her loving, yet eccentric uncle's accounts nearly dry over two years, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. Read more.

Chelsea Evening

By adamg - 7/28/24 - 11:15 pm

Chelsea Scanner this evening showed us what it might look like watching Jupiter from one of its moons, if that moon had large tanks and a casino.

Compare to this morning's sunrise over the water at Winthrop.

Belarusian turned Florida man faces arraignment in Boston on charges he shipped a prohibited scientific instrument to Russia

By adamg - 7/1/24 - 12:15 pm

A Belarusian native was arrested yesterday on charges he illegally arranged the shipping of a $688,000 mass spectrometer made by ThermoFisher Scientific of Waltham to Russia despite federal regulations aimed at cutting off Russia's supply of advanced Western technology following its invasion of Ukraine. Read more.

Candidate for court clerk job appears at rally on one side of MBTA zoning issue now before the court

By adamg - 6/20/24 - 11:15 am

CommonWealth Beacon reports that Boston City Councilor Erin Murphy, who now cares about Winthrop, too, appeared at a rally against a state mandate there that would require the town to rezone some land to allow for higher density development because it's served by the T. Read more.

Wu makes endorsement in court race, and it's not the candidate who currently shares the fifth floor at City Hall with her

By adamg - 6/3/24 - 2:48 pm

Mayor Wu today endorsed Allison Cartwright for one of those election positions that long ago ceased having any policy issues on which we could judge candidates: clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County: Read more.

Five-alarm fire destroys abandoned tuxedo store in Chelsea

By adamg - 5/30/24 - 9:46 pm

Photo by Matt Frank. See it larger.

WCVB reports a fire erupted in the former Russo's Tuxedo at 320 Revere Beach Parkway in Chelsea around 10 a.m. and quickly grew into a five-alarm blaze. Read more.

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Dunkin'

By adamg - 4/28/24 - 11:45 am

Early risin' Matt Frank caught the moon while on the hunt for a cold brew in Chelsea's Prattville about an hour before sunrise this mornin'.

Suffolk DA fined $5,000 for using confidential files and his department press office to attack his opponent in 2022 election

By adamg - 4/25/24 - 9:30 pm

The state Ethics Commission today fined Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden $5,000 for the way the DA's press office released a statement that basically accused his opponent of sexually assaulting a girl when the two were in high school. Read more.

Never mind the threat of taking down a bridge, there's a health risk from all the giant ships coming into the harbor

By adamg - 4/1/24 - 2:07 pm

GBH takes a look at the health woes of giant ships belching diesel smoke from the cheapest possible grade of fuel that now routinely ply Boston Harbor.

Oopsies: Candidate for court job sends out press release that looks like a lot of groups have endorsed her that maybe haven't

By adamg - 4/1/24 - 10:11 am

Politico reports (scroll way down for "Yahd Signs and Bumpah Stickahs") that current City Councilor Erin Murphy on Saturday announced endorsements by nine labor unions for her bid to get elected clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County - in a press release that showed the logos of 49 labor unions and groups, at least one of which says, no, it's not endorsing her this time around. Read more.

MBTA looks to extend Silver Line from Chelsea to Sullivan Square via Everett

By adamg - 3/8/24 - 11:53 am

Proposed extension of Silver Line to Everett and Sullivan squares

Proposed extension, via MBTA.

The MBTA and MassDOT said today they want to extend the Silver Line 3, which now terminates in Chelsea, to neighboring Everett and then to the Sullivan Square T stop - where riders will be able to ride a new breed of "high frequency buses" to Kendall Square. Read more.

Erin Murphy latest councilor to try for lifetime sinecure in administrative job

By adamg - 3/5/24 - 9:33 am

Kelly Garrity reports that Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) is going to run this fall for the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County's clerk job that Maura Doyle recently announced she is retiring from. Read more.

Mystic sunset

By adamg - 3/3/24 - 9:10 pm

Sunset over the Tobin Bridge and the Mystic River

See it larger.

Matt Frank took in the sunset over Chelsea, the Tobin, the Mystic, Boston Harbor and downtown Boston this evening.

Brother of arsonist anti-Semite who failed to burn down rabbis' homes and a Jewish-owned business will face his own charges now that he's been shipped back from Sweden

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 10:11 am

Alexander Giannakakis, whose Nazi brother was the main suspect in a string of arson fires aimed at Jews in 2019, but who died before he could be arrested, has been returned from Sweden to face charges he tried to hide evidence of his brother's crimes and involvement in other local white-supremacist efforts, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Boston council approves $13.3-million federal security grant after councilor warns of impending disaster in Chelsea and Quincy

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 3:46 pm

Ed Flynn, worrying about Boston's neighboring cities.

The Boston City Council today approved a $13.3-million federal homeland-security grant without the normally required hearing after Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) warned there was no time left, that surrounding communities that would share the grant need the money now. Read more.

After the flood, the rainbow; in some places, times two

By adamg - 1/13/24 - 5:33 pm

After the overnight torrents, we got another mini-torrent this afternoon, followed by a rainbow that water-weary Bostonians rushed out to see. Danny in Boston shows us the double rainbow over Uphams Corner in Dorchester. Read more.

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