Five Things for Today in Chelmsford: Aug. 29
From Vinal Square to Kate's Corner, here are your Five Things for today in Chelmsford.
#1. Pictured: Meet Shelby from the Lowell Humane Society. Can you give her a home?
#2. Mass DEP Reports... that MassDEP entered into a Consent Order with a $9,000 Penalty involving Joseph P. Rivard, as president of J.P. Rivard, Inc. for Wetlands violations at 1 Ward Way in Chelmsford.
The property is the site of a commercial trailer sales business that stores, sells and services commercial trailers. After observing potential wetland encroachments while conducting a nearby site visit, MassDEP staff inspected the property and found a total of approximately 3,500 square feet of bordering vegetated wetlands had been filled in three separate locations, violations.
This Order requires a wetland resource area field delineation and a successful restoration plan that requires monitoring for up to five years.
Rivard has agreed to pay $4,500 of the Penalty and MassDEP has agreed to suspend the remaining $4,500 pending compliance."
#3. News from the Other Chelmsford: On Aug. 20, Chelmsford had not one, but two alleged murders.
#4. Half-Staff Notice: Please be advised that Governor Deval L. Patrick has ordered that the United States flag and the Commonwealth flag be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings from sunrise until sunset on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 in honor of U.S. Army Major Steven Brothers of Arlington, Massachusetts.
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Cee Virtue
5:59 am on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Speaking of "the other Chelmsford," a local told me I've been mispronouncing Chelmsford by actually putting an L in there. I wonder if the other one uses their L?
Andrew Sylvia
8:46 am on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The other one spells it with an L, but I can't tell you how they pronounce it. I would assume it's the same. It'd be interesting to reach out to some folks from the Chelmsfords in Canada and the UK, the British one is about the size of Providence, Rhode Island, I think the Canadian ones are Carlisle-sized, but not sure on that. All I know is that they're small.
Tim Miranda
7:47 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The "non-boston" accent way to pronounce seems to be "chelmsfird".
Boston accent would likely drop the L, and if feeling particularly classy, contract the "ford" into "chemsfid".
Cee Virtue
5:39 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
I had forgotten that I have several English friends and British ex-pats, so I asked on my social media sites. The other Chelmsford pronounces the L, and also the complete "ford" rather than "fid" or other sound that isn't an O. I also found out that a mythical town of Chelm is a traditional location for Jewish humor about foolish people.