Chelsea News

School Superintendent Roy Belson announced on Tuesday morning that a new principal has been selected for the McGlynn Middle School .

Massachusetts has awarded construction money to resurface highways first because those projects can get under way the fastest.

The city of Chelsea will get an early start on the Fourth of July on Wednesday, July 1, as it dedicates a park to recognize the Monkiewicz family and their company, Kayem Foods.

New Chelsea location beats back huge crowds. The opening of a new Market Basket in Chelsea is causing a tsunami of excitement on the boards and in real life: Chowhounds report that the fire department was stationed at the store over the weekend to control the crowds.

Angie Rodriguez remembers when she couldn't shake Molly Baldwin. Angie was a gifted teenager throwing her talent away on the streets of Chelsea in an adolescent fog defined by girl gangs and silly behavior.

Residents this morning leaving an apartment building on Orange Street in Chelsea.

While Wednesday was business as usual for most of the state, thousands of Suffolk County folks got to relax and enjoy the exceptionally beautiful day.

Using a singular sense of comedy, symbolism, and satire, The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower serves up what Cocteau describes as "the miraculous poetry of daily life." Also on the bill of three short plays are the absurdist comedy Jack, or the Submission by Eugene Ionesco and Humulus the Mute by Jean Anouilh .

A woman celebrating her graduation had cash and gift cards that were given to her as gifts stolen, police said.

The bus driver thought he found a loophole in the MBTA's new ban on operators using cellphones: He did not bring a cellphone to the job, which is now banned, and he did not talk on one while driving.

A Hyde Park woman who told police she had seen her husband with another woman earlier in the day was arrested Tuesday afternoon after she allegedly slammed into the rear of her husband's black Toyota pickup with her black Toyota SUV, police report.

A major part of the city of Chelsea's redevelopment, a new 135,000-square-foot Market Basket supermarket on Everett Avenue, opened its doors this morning.

Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz , the Gloucester couple who are producing the movie based on Cormac McCarthy 's novel "The Road," are next looking to bring a Boston book to the big screen.

Police released the following: On Sunday June 7, 2009 at approximately 7:00PM, the Chelsea Police were called to respond to 109 Congress Ave for a reported death investigation.

The town of Brookline appears likely to shut down the dozen surveillance cameras it installed along major intersections just two months ago.

Just back from the Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter - a.k.a. "Clark Rockefeller" - trial at Suffolk Superior Court.

A NEW STUDY marking 15 years of education reform points to tough challenges in cities and towns with burgeoning enrollments of low-income students and those lacking English skills.

A total of 235 seniors will be collecting their diplomas at the high school's 2009 graduation ceremony at 2 p.m. next Sunday on Varsity Field.

The following item was recorded in the log of the Newbury police: Jaclyn M. Simard, 22, 702 Lowell St., Peabody, was arrested Saturday at 1:11 a.m. and charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol and a marked lanes violation.

Authorities say a man wanted in connection with a murder in Massachusetts has been captured in South Carolina.