Idaho veterans home administrator Rick Holloway is trustees’ pick for Holyoke Soldiers’ Home superintendent
Updated Apr 01, 2021;
HOLYOKE Pending a final nod by Gov. Charlie Baker, Rick Holloway, administrator for a state veterans home in Boise, Idaho, will head east as the new superintendent of the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke.
Holloway prevailed over another finalist, Robert Engell, a Longmeadow resident and administrator of the Overlook Masonic Health Care Center in Charlton. Members of the selection committee agreed both candidates were qualified, but more than one said they saw Holloway as the more “transformational” of the two.
“Clearly Rick Holloway is head and shoulders above any other candidate . based, in part, on the pure depth of the answers he provided,” said Brig. Gen. Sean T. Collins, one of seven trustees of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home.
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno, City Council believe history is on their side in dispute about police oversight
Updated Mar 31, 2021;
Posted Mar 31, 2021
The Springfield City Council and Mayor Domenic J. Sarno continue to lock horns on the council s effort to resurrect a citizen Police Commission in Springfield. (Don Treeger / The Republican)
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SPRINGFIELD Mayor Domenic J. Sarno and the City Council, in a long-standing dispute regarding oversight of the Police Department, believe new court filings will show that history is on their side.
Attorneys for Sarno and the council recently submitted briefs and exhibits to Hampden Superior Court Judge Frank E. Flannery. The judge is considering a lawsuit brought by the council last fall seeking to force Sarno to reinstate a civilian police commission. It’s unclear when he will make a ruling.
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In Springfield lawsuit over police commission, judge asks for 4-decade history on ordinances
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
A Hampden Superior Court judge wants more history dating to the early 1960s before he decides if Springfield Mayor Domenic J. Sarno must reinstate a civilian Police Commission.
Judge Frank E. Flannery on Friday issued an order directing lawyers for Sarno and the City Council to provide “all of the ordinance(s)” dating to at least 1962 that pertain to a council-proposed five-member Police Commission.
The council filed suit in October against Sarno in Superior Court, seeking to force the mayor to appoint the citizen commission to oversee the Springfield Police Department, including disciplinary matters. Sarno is fighting the suit and claims the council ordinance is invalid. The mayor has staunchly defended the current system, which relies on a single police commissioner for department oversight.
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