City Council Ward Candidate Forum 10/20/2025
En Español Hosted by OneHolyoke CDC, this forum features 7 of the Ward candidates for City Council: Jenny Rivera Anne Thalheimer David Bartley Richard Purcell Linda Vacon Juan Anderson Burgos [...]
Councilors Work on Getting House in Order
The City Council’s Charter & Rules Committee had a full agenda this week, with City Councilor Kevin Jourdain proposing several motions that would streamline how the council functions [...]
Back to School!
The Joint School Committee and City Council Committee worked this week on ensuring that a crossing guard and flashing school sign would be placed in front of the Metcalf School […]
War Memorial Building in Holyoke is now the home base for three human service programs.
The War Memorial Building in the corner of Maple Street and Appleton Street in Downtown Holyoke, is now the home base of The Holyoke Police Department’s Street Outreach Program, the […]
The Ground Beneath Us
The final City Council meeting of the first part of 2025 took up just a handful of items, including addressing the state of city roads and sidewalks. Highlights: “There’s 130 […]
The FY 2026 Budget Moves Forward
With $148,838 cut from the proposed $180 million fiscal year 2026 city budget, the City Council moved forward into making the next fiscal year, which begins on July 1, funded […]
Superintendent Now Officially City Employee
With the return of the management of the Holyoke Public Schools to the city on July 1, Anthony Soto, formerly the state-appointed receiver, now becomes interim superintendent, appointed by the [...]
Holyoke Media Presents: Paint the Town. A conversation with Britt Ruhe from CommonWealth Murals.
Britt Ruhe is the Executive Director of CommonWealth Murals, an organization dedicated to the creation of murals, public art by partnering with communities to create vibrant murals that tell, [...]
What Happens to Assets Seized By The Police?
The City Council met this week and among the issues it took up is what the Holyoke Police Department does with assets seized in drug busts. There have been several […]
Budget Process Begins: How to Spend $180M
The first of three budget hearings held before the City Council had directors of several departments explain their requests. The budget for city departments can be viewed here. First up […]