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Eastern Minerals Owes Chelsea $5,000 to $15,000 a Year Under a 2007 Deal. The City Does Not Know What Is in the Fund

September 22, 2026

Somewhere between $95,000 and $285,000 should have gone in over 19 years. The city asked the salt company for the number and…

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Four Times This Year Chelsea Has Voted to Pay Bills From Earlier Years. One Goes Back to FY21 and One Came With an Intercept Threat

September 22, 2026

A state agency threatening to intercept aid, a copier vendor that stopped invoicing, and construction bills from 2020. Housekeeping happens once a…

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Chelsea Passed a $272 Million Budget 11 to 0 After a Public Hearing Nobody Spoke At. Here Is What Is Inside It

September 22, 2026

Fewer students, more money leaving the district, a budget balanced on reserves in the year reserves end, and not one resident at…

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Chelsea Zoned 160-Foot Buildings Beside Three-Story Public Housing. Its Planning Director Said the Height Came From the Developer

September 22, 2026

Existing buildings are 30 to 35 feet. The new ceiling along the Revere line is 160. Asked if anything nearby was that…

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Nobody Elected the Chelsea Planning Board. Four of Its Members Arrived in the Last Ten Months

September 22, 2026

The board that told Walmart no is appointed, not elected, and it has turned over faster than almost anyone has noticed. Who…

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Chelsea’s Charter Still Refers to the Receiver. Tonight a Committee Takes Up Deleting Him

September 22, 2026

Two mentions of the receiver survive in the city's founding document. A proposal to delete them reaches the committee table tonight, and…

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The Planning Board Asked Chelsea to Name a Neighborhood for the People Who Once Lived There. The Record Does Not Say Who They Were

September 22, 2026

Twelve stories, no parking minimums, and a condition asking the city to name the place after the people who used to live…

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Chelsea’s Reserves Fell From $32.4 Million Toward $5.3 Million, and the Budget Draw Came In $2 Million Over the Projection

September 22, 2026

The sheet projected a $2.5 million draw to balance the budget. The adopted budget took $4,495,000. Snow came in under the estimate,…

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Chelsea’s Council Met for an Hour and Approved $939.20. Everything Else Went to Committee

September 22, 2026

Seventeen appointments, one $939.20 ice cream donation, and $323,543.31 in money orders that nobody voted on. The full record of Monday night,…

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Chelsea Sends Its Rat Program to the Full Council. One Member Says He Started It, Another Spent $20,000 on Concrete

September 22, 2026

The longest discussion of the night was about rats, it produced no vote, and it surfaced more about how Chelsea handles rodents…

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