It’s always good to get good news, especially after watching the news for a few days about a monster storm. It turned out to be about as big a monster as Eddie Munster. I did go and check Crooked Springs, since a lot of water can cause issues in the culvert below the dam. There’s […]

THE HISTORY OF RECREATION IN CHELMSFORD, MASSACHUSETTS What We Had, What Changed, and Why It Is Time to Bring Recreation Back     Contents Purpose of This Report 3 Chelmsford Had a Recreation Department 3 Parks and recreation were connected, but they were different jobs. 4 Chelmsford Learned How to Make Recreation Pay for Much […]

October COSS TLDR: Around Our Open Spaces October brings another reason to get outside, but there is also plenty happening behind the scenes that affects our parks, trees, trails, and community events. We took a look through Town Hall’s latest records and local announcements to see what deserves a little attention. Links to the documents […]

Why invest $596,704 if the building will not be used? This story appears because this month’s TL;DR included an item about the closed Varney Park fieldhouse that needed a deeper information dive. Varney Park’s fieldhouse is not simply an old restroom building. It is a historic, town-owned recreation facility constructed in 1935 as part of […]

OK, this is long, as I needed all the facts: skip if you do not like reading long items. And yes, I used AI to gather the info but had it verified. Why couldn’t these events happen on Chelmsford town land? Chelmsford’s decision not to allow the Scout event on the Town Common, or the […]

Farm Fair and the Future of Farming in Chelmsford This weekend, Chelmsford’s Farm Fair brings us together to celebrate something that helped build this town. I hope it also gets us thinking about what we want to keep. The Historical Society’s Farm Fair returns Saturday, September 19, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Barrett-Byam […]

BALOO stands for Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation, a training program that helps Cub Scout leaders learn to take their packs camping safely and confidently. It combines online learning with hands-on overnight training, and at least one BALOO-trained adult must attend a pack overnighter. Those leaders return to their own towns ready to get more […]

The town’s 9.25-acre Middlesex Canal Conservation Area at 120P Riverneck Road could offer a nice opportunity for more outdoor access in East Chelmsford. The effort to preserve this land goes back more than 50 years. In 1975, Town Meeting unanimously approved $15,000 to purchase the property for conservation purposes. In June 2023, the Conservation Commission […]

Well, plenty of people don’t realize how much goes into building a trail on open space here in town long before anyone picks up a shovel. So I’m sharing the full document I put together to help an Eagle Scout candidate prepare for his presentation and project plan. It gives folks a better look at […]

Today I played hooky from my day job and decided to take a mental health day. As always, John must have a drone over my house because I got a call: “You working today?” So I ended up at Koulas mowing while he and Mick cleared a mass of invasives around the large rock. Apparently, […]