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HOLYOKE — City councilors fell one vote shy on Tuesday of making Holyoke the latest local community to adopt an ordinance that would create stiff penalties for contractors caught stealing wages from their workers.The ordinance, which the Carpenters...

HOLYOKE — By a wide margin, voters in Holyoke rejected a ballot question asking for a debt-exclusion override to build two new middle schools.The “no” votes spoke loudly with 4,872 votes to 2,694. The project, totaling approximately $130 million, was...

HOLYOKE — The Holyoke City Council failed to muster the votes needed Tuesday to change a 2017 ordinance that bars all city employees from simultaneously serving as city councilors.The City Council meeting included a screaming match between members of...

The city of Peru is receiving a $1 million donation from the Doug and Rorie Schweickert Charitable Trust. The ...

HOLYOKE — As Betty Medina Lichtenstein watched election results come in Tuesday in Holyoke, she said her reaction was one of pure excitement. The majority-Hispanic city elected its first Latino mayor, its first Latina at-large School Committee member...

HOLYOKE — It is a year for change on Holyoke’s City Council, which will be its most diverse ever after six candidates of color were elected to the 13 member body.In a year when the city elected its first-ever Latino mayor, city voters also ushered in...

HOLYOKE — On Nov. 2, Holyoke residents will vote to fill seven ward-based seats on the City Council, five of which are contested races. The ward seats are in addition to six at-large seats on the Council.Ward 3 covers the entirety of Elmwood...

HOLYOKE — With less than a month until a Nov. 2 general election, two political action committees have formed in Holyoke to boost the candidacies of competing factions for city offices.A PAC calling itself Holyoke Forward, or Holyoke Pa’lante in...

Sullivan’s fundraising ahead of mayoral field in Holyoke "> Published: 7/13/2021 7:18:49 PM HOLYOKE — Campaign cash is pouring into Holyoke, where eight candidates are jockeying to become the city’s next mayor in a wide-open election. In total, Holyoke mayoral candidates have raked in $152,311 since the start of the year, according to figures from the state’s Office of Campaign and Political Finance. Most of that money comes from political donations during that time period, though some ...

On Sunday, May 16th at 3:30 pm, the LenoxLovesMusic! series will commence with its second season. The series is a collaboration with the Lenox Chamber of Commerce, the Lenox Cultural District, and the Berkshire Music School. The first part of the series will run from May 16th- June 27th with a return for the second half beginning August 29th, to run through to October 17th. The thirteen-week series brings live music to downtown Lenox with performances located at the town dining terrace at 31 Ch...