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The LenoxLovesMusic! series will commence its second season at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 16. The 13-week series brings live music to downtown Lenox with performances located at the town dining terrace at 31 Church St. The series is a collaboration with the Lenox Chamber of Commerce, Lenox Cultural District and Berkshire Music School. The first part of the series will run until June 27 with the second half running Aug. 29 through Oct. 17. Local artists perform each week offering different music genr...

Holyoke City Council delays vote on changes to marijuana ordinance; acting mayor offers updates Updated May 05, 2021; HOLYOKE -- The City Council held off on sweeping changes to an ordinance related to the cannabis industry. The council voted 7-6 in favor of changes to current rules for medical and recreational marijuana operations and special permitting. While the ordinance passed initially with a simple majority (7-6), Ward 5 Councilor Linda Vacon requested an opinion from the city’s Law D...

Holyoke City Council OKs permits for cannabis growers; honors activist Updated 9:08 AM; Massbiology proposes to build and operate a marijuana cultivation and processing facility at 6 Appleton St. The permit requires Massbiology to add a bike rack. Holyoke Fire Department approves a generator for the site, finds an alternative fuel source, and “obtain site control of the area slated for parking.” The Massachusetts Cannabis Commission requires all licensing applicants to apply for a special ...

Holyoke City Councilor Terence Murphy appointed acting mayor Updated Apr 12, 2021; Posted Apr 12, 2021 Ward 2 City Councilor Terence Murphy listens during an online meeting April 12, 2021, where he was elected acting mayor. Facebook Share HOLYOKE — The City Council elected Ward 2 Councilor Terrence Murphy as acting mayor during a special meeting Monday night. Murphy will serve until the November mayoral election. A recently passed home rule petition granted the City Council one-time authori...

Murphy named Holyoke’s acting mayor GAZETTE FILE PHOTO GAZETTE FILE PHOTO Holyoke At-large City Councilor Peter Tallman attends the first meeting of the new year, Jan. 6, 2020. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO HOLYOKE — The city has a new mayor — for the next seven months, anyway. In a special meeting Monday, the City Council voted to name Ward 2 Councilor Terence Murphy acting mayor, a role he will fill until a new mayor is elected in November. Murphy takes over for City Council President Todd McGee,...

Holyoke City Council approves raises for city workers; elected officials see boost Updated Apr 07, 2021; HOLYOKE — The City Council on Tuesday approved a long-delayed salary and compensation ordinance for city workers, including raises for Holyoke Public Library workers paid less than minimum wage. Councilor at Large Rebecca Lisi, who chairs the Ordinance Committee, said the adopted compensation plan mainly affects City Hall workers. In past meetings, department heads told Lisi’s committee...

Group home prepares for first residents Bonnie O’Donnell, director for Mental Health Association’s GRIT Holyoke program, pauses in the dining room where residents can eat “family style.” O’Donnell was giving a tour of the group home on Yale Street on Thursday. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING Flower decorations, a gift from supporters in Boston, line the upstairs railing at the group home on Yale Street in Holyoke. Cordero Crenshaw, program supervisor for the home, is in the background. STA...

The ordinance would have let residents keep up to six hens in most residential zones.

STOCKBRIDGE - Nearly a century after English author Charles Dickens penned "A Christmas Carol," Norman Rockwell found inspiration in the literary classic. For the Dec. 15, 1934 cover of "The Saturday Evening Post," the famed American illustrator chose to portray the novels characters Tiny Tim sitting atop Bob Cratchits left shoulder. At Cratchits feet, Tiny Tims famous line: "God bless us everyone." The Rockwell-Dickens connection seems a natural, according to Tom Daly, curator of education at ...

Holyoke receivership program tackles problem properties Updated Jan 26, 2021; HOLYOKE – The City Council’s Development and Government Relations Committee heard from Acting City Solicitor Crystal Barnes on the city’s property Receivership Program. The committee held a virtual session Tuesday night. Barnes presented the committee a 14-page report on the Receivership Program, which uses the courts to assume the troubled properties that racked up or ignored violations. The council’s Public...