HOLYOKE The lead-up to Monday’s meeting of the Holyoke City Council was filled with dramatic moments, including councilors and members of the public yelling at one another during several recent council meetings.But when the council’s 13 members sat.
HOLYOKE When Holyoke’s newly elected officials took their oath of office Monday, the group on stage at City Hall represented the full diversity of the city’s 38,000 residents.The 13-member City Council is now home to six councilors of color the.
It’s easy to describe November’s municipal elections in several communities throughout western Massachusetts as historic.From Holyoke, where voters chose the city’s first Latino mayor, its most diverse City Council ever and its first Latina at-large.
HOLYOKE A prominent legal organization that works to combat discrimination has issued an opinion that calls into question a Holyoke ordinance barring city employees from serving simultaneously as city councilors.Holyoke City Council has been the.
HOLYOKE The Holyoke City Council failed to muster the votes needed Tuesday to change a 2017 ordinance that bars all city employees from simultaneously serving as city councilors.The City Council meeting included a screaming match between members of.