HOLYOKE As Betty Medina Lichtenstein watched election results come in Tuesday in Holyoke, she said her reaction was one of pure excitement. The majority-Hispanic city elected its first Latino mayor, its first Latina at-large School Committee member.
HOLYOKE Voters decided three contests for School Committee seats on Tuesday.Races were contested for an at-large seat as well as the seats in Ward 4 and Ward 7. And the School Committee will have a new chair after Joshua Garcia was elected.
HOLYOKE On Nov. 2, Holyoke residents will vote to fill seven ward seats on the School Committee as well as one at-large seat. Of those races, three are contested.Below are profiles of the candidates running in the contested races in Ward 4, Ward 7,.
HOLYOKE With less than a month until a Nov. 2 general election, two political action committees have formed in Holyoke to boost the candidacies of competing factions for city offices.A PAC calling itself Holyoke Forward, or Holyoke Pa’lante in.