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 […]
Carlos Vega Fund for Social Justice 2025 Grant Award Reception
Grant Recipients African American Female Professor Award Association Anti-Racism Community Organizers Beyond Walls The Color Collaborative Common Wealth Murals Community Roots; Neighborhood [...]
City Council Special Meeting 6/30/2025
En español Agenda 1. DEVINE – Ordered, That there be and is hereby appropriated by transfer in the fiscal year 2025 from fiscal year 2025 the free cash balance certified […]
Valley Jazz Shares – Two Brass Hit
From the Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares Website: “A 25 year veteran New York based artist now teaching at Pennsylvania’s Bucknell University, Phil Haynes (June 15, 1961) is featured on more [...]
2025 Western Massachusetts Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Recorded June 5, 2025 at Wyckoff Country Club in Holyoke, MA. Inductees: Todd Ezold Catcher for Classical High School in Springfield and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. While at UMass, [...]
Finance Committee 6/25/2025
En español Agenda Item 1: 6-17-25 DEVINE – Ordered, that there be and is hereby appropriated by transfer in the fiscal year 2025, THREE THOUSAND SEVENTY FIVE AND 00/100 Dollars […]
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 [...]
Finance Committee 6/24/2025
En español Agenda Item 1: 5-20-25 Devine, J. Rivera- Ordered that the Commission on Disabilities be invited to the Finance Committee to discuss MGL Chapter 40 Section 22G which will […]
City Council Special Meeting 6/23/2025
En español Agenda: 1. The Committee on Ordinance to whom was referred an order that City Council adopt the attached Substitute Municipal Modernization Ordinance Recommended that the order be [...]