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Sixth candidate emerges in Holyoke mayor’s race
Gloria Caballero Roca has announced her candidacy for mayor of Holyoke. SUBMITTED PHOTO
HOLYOKE — Another candidate has entered the race to become Holyoke’s next mayor.
Gloria Caballero Roca, a 55-year-old academic and educator, announced her candidacy on Friday. A Holyoker for more than 20 years, the Whiting Avenue resident said that as an Afro-Cuban she is excited to be the only Latina to have announced their candidacy for the position.
“Holyoke is ready for a change,” she said. “I’m so excited. I think I could be a wonderful person who would like to involve people in policy making. I would love to see this happen.”
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Updated Dec 17, 2020;
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The US-Ireland Alliance recently awarded a prestigious George J. Mitchell Scholarship to Tawreak “Ty” Gamble-Eddington of Springfield, a senior at Union College in Schenectady, New York. The scholarship will allow him to do a year of post-graduate study at Dublin’s Trinity College. Out of 453 applicants, only 12 were awarded scholarships.
“I was extremely ecstatic, especially since I got my first choice school (in Dublin),” Eddington-Gamble said about the award. “I was, simply put, on Cloud 9.”
Of African-American and Irish American parents, he is the son of Brandi Gamble and Joseph Eddington, both of Springfield. His great-grandmother’s roots go back to Limerick, Ireland. He will study Race, Ethnicity and Conflict at Trinity, but also hopes to continue researching his Irish ancestry.
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