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By | Jul 15, 2024

Holyoke begins outreach for Comprehensive Plan update

HOLYOKE — With continued momentum for the city’s revitalization, Holyoke officials have started plans to update its decades-old comprehensive plan with a new version to guide the city over the next two decades.


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By | Jul 15, 2024

Holyoke City Council approves free cash transfers to end FY24

HOLYOKE — In a June 27 special meeting of the City Council that served as the council’s last meeting before a summer recess, the council approved just over $1 million in transfers from free cash as final bookkeeping to end the fiscal year.


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Under the hood of the Victory Theatre, renovations continue

By | Jul 15, 2024

Under the hood of the Victory Theatre, renovations continue

HOLYOKE — As progress continues on the rehabilitation project of the 1920 Broadway style Victory Theatre in downtown Holyoke, Reminder Publishing was invited by MIFA Executive Artistic Director Don Sanders for a tour of the building mid-renovation as excitement continues to loom over what is expected to be a huge cultural and tourist addition to the community.


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By | Jul 10, 2024

Enchanted Circle announces organizational pause

HOLYOKE — Nonprofit arts education organization Enchanted Circle has announced plans for a strategic pause, effective July 1, as part of a border initiative to strengthen the organization’s operational strategies to better serve the community in the long term, amidst financial insecurity.


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By | Jul 10, 2024

Holyoke City Council approves fiscal year 2025 budget

HOLYOKE — The City Council has passed a budget of just over $172 million for the fiscal year 2025 operating budget, about a $9 million increase from FY24.


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By | Jul 10, 2024

Sheehan appointed to vacant Holyoke School Committee seat

HOLYOKE — In a special joint meeting between the Holyoke City Council and the School Committee, the two bodies voted to appoint Devin Sheehan to fill the vacancy created when At-Large committee member Erin Brunelle resigned last month.


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New middle school building topped off, new check point in project

By | Jul 1, 2024

New middle school building topped off, new check point in project

HOLYOKE — Community leaders and members gathered at the site of the former Peck Middle School on June 24 for an official “topping off” ceremony as the final, and highest, steel beam of the framed two-story new middle school building was placed.


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Police pedal 300 miles in Unity Tour for fallen officer fund

By | Jun 25, 2024

Police pedal 300 miles in Unity Tour for fallen officer fund

In May, a team of five Western Massachusetts police officers honored all fallen cops — 23,785 throughout American history, according to the memorial fund — by pedaling more than 300 miles from northern New Jersey to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.


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Staasi Heropoulos has been a broadcast and print journalist as well as a corporate communications practitioner, in Western Mass. and internationally for more than 40 years. He loves writing feature articles on local people and places but also welcomes story ideas about corporate and government malfeasance. Staasi can be reached at Staasi.Heropoulos@gmail.com.

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Agawam resident, Holyoke principal gains heroine award

By | Jun 25, 2024

Agawam resident, Holyoke principal gains heroine award

HOLYOKE — Roseanne “Rosie” Caracciolo, principal of Dean Technical High School in Holyoke and a resident of Agawam, has received the Community Heroine Award from the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women.


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