HOLYOKE After 31 years with the Fire Department, Fire Chief Jeffery Przekopowski has decided to retire this summer.“I’m excited, it’s time,” Przekopowski, 55, said in a phone interview Thursday. He will be officially stepping down sometime in June..
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 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.