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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...