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This Week in Government Affairs: The Budgeting Begins
City Council Meets on Budget The City Council met with the mayor and other departments heads as part of the process of going over the city’s budget line by line. […]
Pictures at Play: Metafiction in Art
Por Waleska Santiago-Centeno La literatura para niños ha surgido con mucho auge en las últimas décadas. Hoy día existen un campo dedicado a la Literatura Infantil, se llevan a cabo […]
Weekly Wrap Of Government Meetings
LOCAL CONTROL SCHOOL SUBCOMMITTEE April 23, 2024 Yadillete Rivera, School Committee member and chair of the Local Control Committee, is one of the officials shepherding control of the Holyoke Public […]
Laurel Street Residents Get What They Desperately Needed
The City Council voted unanimously to ask the Department of Public Works to place speed humps on Laurel Street, a street that is often confused by dangerous drivers as a […]
Shall The City Treasurer Become an Appointment?
A proposal to make the position of city Treasurer an appointed position rather than an elected one was debated first in the council’s Charter & Rules Committee, and then again […]
Trópico es Político
Hola mi nombre es Waleska Santiago-Centeno Bienvenidos una vez más. Hoy le quiero hablar de una exposición titulada Trópico es Político: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime que se […]
Play Incubation Collective promotes creativity through theatrical work.
Play Incubation Collective is a local launchpad for new theatrical work that nourishes the community and fosters civic dialogue. Their co-founders, Sarah Marcus and Rachel Hirsch, created this project with […]
All About Wisty in 156 Words!
Megan Seiler is the director of the city’s very own museum, lecture center, gallery, panel discussions, shop, beautiful gardens and depository of the city’s history that can be found in […]
Resident Calls Out Bartley’s Conduct
Updates from Finance Committee below In a fast-moving City Council meeting on March 19, the council heard from a resident calling out the inappropriate conduct of a city councilor, agreed […]
Councilors Recommend Where Federal Taxpayer Money Should Go
DEVELOPMENT & GOVERNMENT RELATIONS COMMITTEE Alicia Zoeller Zoeller, administrator of the Office for Community Development, met with the City Council’s Development and Governmental Relations Relations Committee on March 12 to […]
Saint Patrick. His life, ascension, influence, and presence in the Irish communities in the United States, explained.
Did you know Saint Patrick was not Irish? Did you know the first Saint Patrick’s parade in North America had participation of people of all different ethnicities, nationalities, and backgrounds? […]