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Holyoke Councilor Peter Tallman ends quarter-century tenure, optimistic about the city's future, and aims to focus on family and veterans.

HOLYOKE — The Paper City — a city so welcoming to the marijuana industry that some have jokingly referred to it as “Rolling Paper City” — has, for the moment, effectively banned new marijuana manufacturing and cultivation businesses within city...

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...