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City closer to sale of Holyoke Geriatric Authority property
The Holyoke Geriatric Authority, pictured here in September 2020. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Modified: 12/10/2020 4:09:45 PM
HOLYOKE The City Council is set to consider a new bid from Baystate Health and its partner Kindred Healthcare to purchase the former Holyoke Geriatric Authority property to construct a new behavioral health hospital.
At Tuesday’s meeting of the City Council’s Development And Government Relations Committee, the city’s director of planning and economic development, Marcos Marrero, presented the Baystate-Kindred offer to purchase the property at 45 Lower Westfield Rd. for $250,000. The four members of the committee voted unanimously to recommend approving that agreement, which will now go before the full council.
Westfield woman sentenced to 6 months in jail after being charged with dumping her newborn baby, misleading police
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
SPRINGFIELD A former school cafeteria worker and mother of three was sentenced to six months in jail two years after being charged with dumping her newborn baby, whose body was never found.
Shanna Sharples, of Westfield, was indicted for improper disposition of a human body and three counts of misleading police. In September, she pleaded guilty to misleading police and admitted to “facts sufficient” for a guilty finding on the improper disposal charge.
Sharples was sentenced in Hampden Superior Court on Dec. 9.