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Chelsea Wants a $6.08 Million Fire Station on Land a Nonprofit Offered. The Terms Have Never Been Disclosed

September 22, 2026

Donated, leased or sold? Response times from a peninsula? Six million dollars against a $5 million free cash balance? Questions for a…

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Chelsea’s Audit Came Back Clean. The City Manager Asked to Sit Down With the Auditors Anyway

September 22, 2026

A clean opinion means the numbers are right, not that the auditors had nothing to say. The management letter is where the…

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John DePriest Ran Chelsea’s Planning for 32 Years, From Receivership to the Master Plan. He Retired This Summer

September 22, 2026

Thirty-two years, one office, and an honest answer at the 40R hearing: 'we are responding to a proposal the developer has shown…

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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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