HOLYOKE It is a year for change on Holyoke’s City Council, which will be its most diverse ever after six candidates of color were elected to the 13 member body.In a year when the city elected its first-ever Latino mayor, city voters also ushered in.
HOLYOKE On Nov. 2, city residents will vote to fill seven ward-based seats on the City Council, five of which are contested races. The ward seats are in addition to six at-large seats on the council.Ward 4 covers parts of the Churchill and Downtown.
HOLYOKE With less than a month until a Nov. 2 general election, two political action committees have formed in Holyoke to boost the candidacies of competing factions for city offices.A PAC calling itself Holyoke Forward, or Holyoke Pa’lante in.
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Holyoke’s Ward 4 City Councilor Libby Hernandez will not seek reelection Holyoke Ward 4 City Councilor Libby Hernandez attends the first meeting of the new year in the council chambers following an inaugural ceremony held upstairs in the Holyoke City Hall auditorium on Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO Published: 5/5/2021 4:22:33 PM HOLYOKE Ward 4 City Councilor Libby Hernandez has announced that she will not seek reelection this November. Hernandez said that she made the decision not to run for a second term in order to spend more time with her mother. Hernandez lost her father to cancer on Sept. 7. He was 68. “It was a personal decision,” Hernandez said. She noted that her mother has suffered health issues after herself getting cancer, which is now in remission. “I need to focus on what’s going on with her.”