Cele's Photo Gallery

Cele's Columns 1997 - 2004

Cele's 2003/04 Columns

Coming Face to Face with Illegal Immigration

Do You Miss Being the Representative?

1853 Johnson Organ Made in Westfield

A Look at War -- From South of the Border

Cele's 2002 Columns

It's Time to Say Goodbye

We Wish You a Merry...

Constituents to Remember, and Forget

Youre the Most Important Part of the Job’

Old Bell Finds a Lot to Be Thankful For

Its Thanksgiving in Athol Today’

Were Fat And Living Dangerously’…

Remembering WW II, for Veterans Day

Methadone  Cure or Curse?…

When Should the Elderly Stop Driving?

There's More to Voting Than You Might Think

I Didn't Take The Job To Be Important

Let's Wrap Up 2002 Legislation

More Ideas on MCAS Tests

One More Look at MCAS

What Does Westfield Have?

What Does Westfield Need?

I'm Still Proud to Represent Westfield

Is it time to take another look at Casinos?

Going to Bat for an Ex-Con

Where Does the Bond Money Go?

Changing the Voting Age? I Dont Think So!’

Welcome to History, Welcome to the State House

Lottery has Winning Year

July in the City

A Quick Look at Fireworks ... and Taxes

Were once again trying to define "fat"’

Talking to Animals in the Backyard

Celebrating Flag Day  Thanks to Westfields Vets—’

There Seems to be a Lull in the Action

From Horton and the Grinch to Down Cape

What's "Normal" in Politics? Nothing!

Oh, the Places Youll Go, the Things Youll Learn’’

We're Still Working on It

Im ListeningIm Listeningand then Spending’…’…

I Earned It-and, I Kept It–

What is a dragon doing in my mail?

Think Youre Paying Too Much in Taxes?’

Taking Time to Look Out the Window

Getting ready for the Easter Bunny

Unearthing Bits of Westfields History’

Its a Long, Long Way to January’

Are All Those Tax Cuts Valuable?

It's Been Eight Great Years

"I Have Been Tasked," She said

Its an Unending Flow of Information’

Just 23 Inches of Information

Tired of Budget Talk? Let's Lighten It Up!

All We're Talking About is Money

Looking Back to What We Did and Didn't Do

State House Back to Work

Helping Veterans in the Year 2002

Cele's 2001 Columns

Columbia Pedaling Into the New Year

Were All Decking the Halls’

Looking Ahead to Ballot Issues

Speaking of the Politically Correct …

Old Bell Finds a Lot to Be Thankful For

Were Deep Fat Frying the Turkey Today’

Remember--The 11th Hour, 11th Day, 11th Month

Organs from Westfield Found Around the Country

Just Some Things to Think About

If It's Not Raining, It's At Least Drizzling

All Right, Here's What Refugees Get

Modern Manners  Circa 1930…

It Used to be Septic Tanks  now its the Turnpike…’

When Should You Stop Driving?

A Letter to a Friend, with Thoughts on Terrorism and Tragedy

Playing Tourist Close to Home

A Student Gives MCAS a Passing Grade

A Lesson About Lobsters

More of the Piles, Pamphlets, Pages and Papers

The Pile Measures Two Feet Six Inches

Massachusetts Hospitals Might Be Fatally Ill

Summer Doldrums Hit State House

Enjoy the Sites of Beacon Hill

What Do Legislators Discuss? Publicly vs Privately?

The Importance of a Doughnut

Cold Fried Chicken and Chiggers

Legislators Have Ideas to Protect Our Pets

Contrary to Rumor, Im Alive and Well’

I Still Dont Like Boston Cream Doughnuts’

TourismMassachusetts 3rd Largest Industry–

Alzheimers It Affects All of Us’—

Yes, You Can Drive in Barefeet

Mothers Day Remembered

It's Budget Week and We're Spending $23-billion

You Can Fill Fenway Three Times

Remember that Grade School Bully?

Daddy Gave Me a Duck for Easter

More of the Bits and Pieces

Taking a Look at Local Legislation

One More Look at Voter-Funded Elections

What Do Legislative Committees Do?

Just Sorting My Mail

We're Building Bridges ... Lots of Them

The Religious Life of a Politician

Nobody Ever Said I Was Average

Im No Potted Plant!’

What are People Talking About?

Were Trying to Improve the Business Climate’

Legislature Slow to Return to Business

Not Fair! But, Life isn't Fair!

Happy New Century, Year, Day!

Wont cook it, eat it, touch it and you wouldnt either: lutefisk’’

Cele's 2000 Columns

Here We Go Again ... Gearing up for 2001

Please pass the Lutefisk and Limpa

Catching up on the Little Stuff

A Look at the MCAS Tests

I Lost October and November

Old Bell Finds a Lot to be Thankful For

Thank You! What's Next?

An Open Letter to Carla

Breaking the Law to Save Big Bucks

Question Five ... You Decide

A Fake I.D.? Don't Fake It From Massachusetts

$42-Million Facelift Underway at State House

Are Housekeeping Skills Inherited?

I Won't Be Coming to Your Door

While Driving the Pike

Putting out the Fires on Beacon Hill

A Look at Massachusetts, by the Numbers

What Kind of Holiday Is this?

Pharmacists, Plumbers, and Profusionists

Another Look at the Progress We've Made

A Decade of Progress ... Looking Back to 1990

Maybe You Really Can't Go Back

Some Questions Never Asked

Taking a Look at the Fall Ballot

Calling lt Quits for 1999-2000

It Ain't Over 'til It's Over ... HMO Reform

Cold fried chicken and chiggers

We Can't Legislate Morality

Remembering Dad--And All the Cars

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

It's Time to Check the Mail Bag

Memorial Day: The Day to Remember

I Didn't Win the Lottery Either

You Probably Voted for Clean Elections

Still Pitching After All These Years

Staying Awake in the House Chamber

My Excise Taxes are Just Five Dollars

A Report Card on Our Schools

Libraries, schools, roads, bridges ... your tax dollars

Let the Games Begin ... It's Budget Time, Again

Do Your Socks Run Away from Home?

We're Burying Billions under Boston

Form letters don't mean much ... but ...

What's the Worst Thing You Could Say?

Did I Tell You Dad Shot the Squirrels?

How to Spend $21.3-Billion of Your Dollars

Counting Farms, Counting People, Counting Cadavers

Remember February 1978? The Big Storm?

Since Women Got the Right to Vote ...

It's a $33-Million Facelift

What Does a State Representative Do?

What May--or May Not--Be on the Ballot This Year

Cele's 1999 Columns

Silver Pantihose, Yes -- Hawkeye Casket, No

Santa Fails to Meet State Standards

Please pass the Lutefisk and Limpa

Health Care is in the Intensive Care Unit

Joining Santa and the State on the Internet

Where Did the Mashed Potatoes Go?

Old Bell Finds a Lot to be Thankful For

Did We Get $2.8-Billion in Results?

I'm just reading the mail...

Please Pass the Body Parts

Tossing Pigeons, Counting Cars

Strange Things Are Happening

Will We Ever Have a State Budget?

Town Vs Gown ... Problems & Benefits

It's National Hunting and Fishing Day

A Look Inside the Walls

Everyone Should Have an Uncle Ken

Preserving Western Massachusetts

I've Got My Back to School Crayons

The Problem with Pigs

Everything you never needed to know

Summertime...and the Living is Easy

HMOs...Here We Go, Again

Erasing High Anxiety of Tuition

I Was Talking To a Trooper

Who Is That Old Indian, Anyway?

Cold Fried Chicken and Chiggers

Time to Think About New Years Eve

Looking at the Big Picture

Today's the Wedding Day

Don't Tell My Husband....But

Betty Crocker, Martha Stewart and Cele?

Goodbye, Graduates and Guardsmen

Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign

Spending Your Tax Dollars - Part Two

How Do You Spend $20.77-Billion?

Putting Your Car on the Treadmill

Is Your Dog Worth More than Your Child?

We're Looking at Mental Health

Now, It's the Official Toad, Sport and Candy

The High Cost of Running

Where Excise Taxes Go...and Other Trivia

When The Phone Doesn't Ring

We Just Don't Have Enough Beds

The Graying of Massachusetts

That Old Salt Shed Is Valuable

Where are you going so fast?

Happy 33rd Anniversary, Curt

We're Mad as Hell, and...

So, You're Not Happy with Your HMO?

We're Learning About Education

The First Wednesday in January

We're Buttering the Cats

Cele's 1998 Columns

We Wish You a Merry...

You Taste Just Like an Overshoe

You Wouldn't Want to be the Clerk

The High Cost of Drugs and Drink

Congratulations--and $2,000--to Georgianna

Old Bell Finds a Lot to be Thankful For

Remembering the Ghost Soldiers

Since you asked about it

Reading the mail, again.

Westfield's Famous Hydroponic Weed

Westfield is Making Business News

Westfield - The Whip City

Money, Money, Money, Money

Is There a Woman in the House?

Did you remember to Vote?

Change is the operative word

It wasn't the best school year

Walking in the Spam Shoes

Bet you didn't know, or care...but...

Walking through History

Don't be a Deadbeat

Russian "Welcome to Westfield"

Where Do You Live?

Hazy, Hot, Humid and Hectic

A letter to a teacher in Iowa

Cold fried chicken and chiggers

You Can Never Trust a Bottle Rocket

The Key to East High School

Water, Water Everywhere

Did I Remember to Tell You About...

Now you see me, now you don't

"Mind your own business," She Replied

Improving Auto Insurance Step by Step

Hilltowns have Beacon Hill Clout

How to spend $19-Billion

And now, the official donut

Putting together a scrambled egg

Dead ducks? Peeps in Jello?

Do You Really Enjoy All of This?

Thank you, to Mr. Jack Fitzgibbon

Answers to Questions Never Asked

Do Women Have Place in Politics?

Clearing the piles off the desk again

Soaring with eagles, in Westfield

What Does A Representative Do?

What made them think that 55 is old?

What if everyone fails the tests?

Going Outdoors? Or, Out on the Ice?

Okay, Parents, Before you Call Me

State House Press Tells Us What's Important

Celebrating 200 Years in 1998

Women, Refuse to be a Victim

Cele's 1997 Columns

Looking Ahead to the Legislature's New Year

We Wish You a Merry...

Please pass the lutefisk and limpa

Esta La Bandera de Puerto Rico

Where did the mashed potatoes go?

Old Bell Finds a Lot to be Thankful For

Pine Cones, Pineapples or Corn?

What Symbolizes Westfield For You?

Every Day in Massachusetts...

Questions from the Hill and Other Places

Goals for State Colleges Admirable

What a Glorious Day Wednesday Was!

There's a New Bridge Coming....2001

From the top of the pile

Bullfighting, Banking and the Big E

Taking a look at other states

I'm Proud to Represent Westfield

And, these things make me happy

What's the appeal of Bingo?

I'm Your $250-Thousand Woman

And, Just What Did You Do?

A Look at the Sex Offender Registry

That Is Not My Pink Dog

Anything Reasonable and Proper

We're Off to the Races

The Cost of a 200-Year Celebration

Just Who Is On the Dole?

The Way It Was In the State House

From The Clutter on My Desk

The Drug Addict is Your Neighbor

Choosing the Massachusetts State Cookie

Of Course, We Remember Them

Just How Tall Are You, Anyway?

Remember that first cigaret?

And Now, In No Particular Order

The Little People of the Trees

When I was only Sixteen

Center Does Indeed Offer Hope

Official Stuff - The State Cookie

Doing time ... or business ... with MassCor

And, just what does a State Rep Do?

Handicap Makes a Difference In How People React to You

Sometimes I'd Do Better If I Was Absent

When Alzheimers Hits Home

Bumpkin Island? Gallops Island?

Moses was a Wise Old Man

The House--Designed to be Inefficient?

Making Massachusetts Business-Friendly

The lighter side--low fat, no meat

Are You Making Resolutions This Year?