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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 the difficulty in filling vacancies or delivering services due to low pay. Lisi noted that trash an...

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. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING A handicapped-accessible bedroom on the first floor of MHA's GRIT program hom...

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 novel's characters Tiny Tim sitting atop Bob Cratchit's left shoulder. At Cratchit's feet, Tiny Tim's famous line: "God bless us everyone." The Rockwell-Dickens connection seems a natural, according to Tom Daly, curator of education at the Norman Rockwell Museum. "As a little boy, Rockwell's dad read Dickens stories to him," Daly ...

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 Safety Committee examined the issue in June 2020. Barnes told the committee that receivership is th...