Curly's Restaurant on Broadway serves up handmade pupusas, Salvadoran breakfast plates, and diner classics alike — a neighborhood spot built for its actual neighbors, open daily from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Head Inn Beauty Salon sits tucked inside the historic buildings of Admiral's Hill, once the Chelsea Naval Hospital — a small, no-frills salon that's built loyal clients over years through friendly service and relationships formed one haircut at a time.

Chelsea's four post-receivership city managers — Guy Santagate, Jay Ash, Thomas Ambrosino, and Fidel Maltez — shared a stage for the first time ever at a Sept. 16 panel, tracing the city's arc from a $10 million financial collapse in 1991 to national recognition for good government.

Revere's City Council voted to commend former Chelsea City Manager Thomas Ambrosino following his retirement from the Massachusetts Trial Court — recognizing nearly 37 years of public service that spanned both Revere and Chelsea, including seven and a half years steering Chelsea through the pandemic and beyond.

Mass Audubon's $8.36 million purchase of the 18-acre Forbes Lithograph waterfront site — envisioned as a public park, nature preserve, and up to 225 units of housing — now hinges on a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling after the former owner challenged the receivership sale.

Massport is holding an open casting call for a new overhead announcement voice at Boston Logan International Airport — and any Massachusetts resident, Chelsea included, can enter through October 4 at voiceoflogan.com. Finalists are chosen by judges; the public votes on the winner in late October.

Revere is preparing to install a year-long ultrafine-particle monitor near Logan Airport — but Chelsea already has an established, purpose-built monitoring network of its own, from EPA and iSUPER sensors to peer-reviewed studies. The new Revere data could sharpen the regional picture for both cities.

The New England Coffee Café and Store in Malden reopened September 14 after a nearly four-month closure caused by a May traffic accident — just in time to mark 40 years since the flagship retail store first opened in 1986.

The company itself dates back to 1916, moving to Malden in 1966 and passing through two generations of the Kaloyanides family before being acquired by Reily Foods Company in 2013.