Chelsea Put $200,000 Into a Bronze Statue and Zeroed Out a Homeowner’s $44,374 Preservation Grant
Ways and Means worried about the cost of the statue and sent it out anyway. The homeowner got an apology and a…
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Chelsea Bought a Six-Unit Building for $2 Million and Became a Landlord. The Rents Are Meant to Buy the Next One
Six three-bedroom apartments, a lottery with priority for families, veterans and residents with disabilities, and a fund built so a good year…
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Chelsea Cut Public Speaking Time From Four Minutes to Three in the Year Residents Most Wanted to Speak
Almost nobody speaks at a Chelsea council meeting until something enormous is at stake. The new limit only binds on those nights.
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Chelsea’s Trash Fee Is Up 8 Percent and the Water Bill Is Up $26. If You Own the Home You Live In, the Trash Increase Is Zero
The full rate table, what is driving it, and the one line that decides whether any of it reaches you.
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Chelsea Owed Eversource $48,407 in Bills Some of Which Had Been Unpaid for Over a Decade
Street lights, park lights and city buildings. The lights stayed on while the balance grew, and the record does not say who…
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Chelsea Lost the $50 Million to Build Its Flood Barrier. It Is Still Buying the Land, Including a Bank
A $287,643 taking at the marina, a bank branch bought and leased back for the value of its property tax, and no…
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The Forbes Property Sold to Mass Audubon for $8.36 Million, and Chelsea Gets Back Over $1 Million in Unpaid Taxes
One of the city's longest vacancies has a buyer. The conservation group's plan for the site is attached to the council packet,…
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One Councillor Has Missed 20 of the Council’s 48 Roll Calls This Year. Nobody Else Has Missed Ten
Six of 14 meetings, 20 of 48 roll calls, a late arrival and early exit on budget night, and a subcommittee that…
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How Chelsea’s Eleven Councillors Have Actually Voted in 2026. The Record, Councillor by Councillor
All but three roll calls this year were unanimous. Here is who filed what, who was missing, where the three splits fell,…
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Roberto Jimenez-Rivera in 2026: 31 Orders, Zero Dissents, and an Agenda of His Own Under the President’s
Separating the President from the councillor: ADUs, the West Chelsea overlay, the ICE Out petition, the rules rewrite, and a perfect attendance…
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