While attending Notre Dame School in Nicaragua, Fidel Maltez was a standout in varsity basketball and soccer. He later played intramural and club soccer at Lafayette College where he received his degree in civil engineering. When Fidel Maltez and his wife, Maria Belen Power (who also attended Notre Dame School where they first met in high school) celebrated the birth of their first child, Maya, in 2013, Fidel became inspired to take up the sport of running. City Manager Fidel Maltez proudly holds his Boston Marathon medal after finishing the race Monday. City Manager Fidel Maltez, pictu ..read more

Special to the Independent On May 5, Greg Wilmot, Boston native and Framingham resident, will be honored at Project Bread’s 56th annual Walk for Hunger with the Patrick Hughes Award for Social Justice, named for the late event founder. Wilmot is the President & CEO of the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC), Massachusetts’ largest community-based primary care health system, which recently announced it will be rebranding as NeighborHealth this June. Project Bread, the leading statewide food security organization in Massachusetts, recognizes Wilmot’s leadership of the state’s lar ..read more

Special to the Independent Last week, Senator Sal DiDomenico spoke at a rally hosted by the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters on the State House Steps. DiDomenico spoke about the importance of passing his wage theft bill (S.1158) alongside Massachusetts AFL-CIO President Chrissy Lynch, the House sponsor of his Wage Theft bill, State Rep. Daniel Donahue, and workers fighting for worker protections. DiDomenico’s wage theft legislation has passed the Senate for several sessions and he is fighting to ensure that this is the year it is signed into law. Senator Sal DiDomenico spe ..read more

State and Chelsea officials, along with local nonprofit La Colaborativa, held a public forum at the senior center last week on the proposed temporary migrant safety net shelter at the old Chelsea Soldiers’ Home. Late last month, state officials announced that the shuttered Quigley hospital building, which is slated for demolition, will be home to a temporary shelter for the next six to 12 months. The shelter will house up to 100 families. At several meetings over the past three weeks, state officials have noted that the shelter is part of a broader plan to address the migrant crisis in the st ..read more

Nearly six years after starting the process, the school district is close to finding a new home for its Chelsea Opportunity Academy and the Intergenerational Literacy Program. Currently, the Chelsea Opportunity Academy (COA) uses classrooms at Chelsea High School, and the Intergenerational Literacy Program (ILP) does the same at the Early Learning Center. The school administration is currently in the final stages of selecting a potential site that would combine the two programs in one location, and also free up classroom space at the high school and the Early Learning Center. The two location ..read more

Special to the Record Senator Sal DiDomenico joined all Massachusetts Senators in unanimously approving $375 million in bond authorizations for statewide transportation projects, including the state’s Chapter 90 program, which would create a reliable funding source for local infrastructure investments like roads, bridges, regional transit equipment and infrastructure, bicycle infrastructure, and electric vehicle infrastructure, among other things. Projects funded by this legislation improve quality of life for residents in every region of the state, and many play a role in environmental mitig ..read more

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) recently arrested a Salvadoran national charged locally with assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest, and assault and battery on a family or household member. Deportation officers with ERO Boston apprehended the 27-year-old noncitizen March 28 near his residence in Chelsea. He is a documented member of the notorious MS-13 transnational street gang, according to a press release from ICE. “This Salvadoran noncitizen was not only a member of a violent street gang. He was a threat to our Mass ..read more

From the moment he walked into the Sagamore Club last Wednesday night, Joe Bevere was clearly having the time of his life. Players from his 1975 Division 2 Eastern Mass. championship Chelsea High baseball team and other alumni were there for a special reunion with Coach Joe Bevere, who was joined by his daughters, Jacqueline and Jolene, and his son, Joe Bevere Jr., at the celebration. The stories were grand at the reunion about what co-captain Bobby Spinney called “a magical year,” that was piloted by head coach Joe Bevere and assistant coach Frank Herlihy. The 1975 team had it all: great pit ..read more

The Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University has released its annual forecast for the 2024 hurricane season and it is nothing less than frightening, with a prediction that the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season will have activity well above average Their summary is as follows: “We estimate that 2024 will have 23 named storms (average is 14.4), 115 named storm days (average is 69.4), 11 hurricanes (average is 7.2), 45 hurricane days (average is 27.0), 5 major (Category 3-4-5) hurricanes (average is 3.2), and 13 major hurricane days (average is 7.4). The probability of U.S. an ..read more

Dorothy Therese Wilson October 28, 1929 – April 14, 2024 Relatives and friends are most kindly invited to attend calling hours for Dorothy T. (Dunn) Wilson on Monday morning, April 22 from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in the Welsh Funeral Home, 718 Broadway, Chelsea. Visitation will be immediately followed by a Funeral Mass at St. Rose Church, 600 Broadway, Chelsea at 11 a.m. Services will conclude with interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett. Dorothy Wilson, 94, of South Weymouth, passed peacefully on Sunday morning, April 14t, with her loving and caring family at her side. Born and raised in Chelsea, Do ..read more