HOLYOKE Energy, climate change and the environment were front and center this week when mayoral candidates took part in a forum hosted by local environmental organizations.The “Powering a Clean Future” forum was hosted Tuesday by the Environmental.
NORTHAMPTON Mayoral races across the state are heating up, including in Northampton and Holyoke.Candidates in both cities have begun to file their nomination papers the step necessary to appear on the ballot. In Northampton, candidates for mayor.
AMHERST – Public libraries throughout the region are reopening and returning to somewhat normal, if at times more limited, operations.At the special collections room at the Jones Library in Amherst, which hasn’t been open to the public since March.
HOLYOKE The state education commissioner asked the receiver-superintendent of Holyoke Public Schools to resign earlier this year and paid him $102,500 in severance.The details are included in a separation agreement, obtained by the news outlet.
Former student recounts alleged abuse by Holyoke Catholic High School teacher
Holyoke’s Fran O’Connell, seen here in a Holyoke Catholic High School basketball photo from the 1975-76 school year. SUBMITTED PHOTO
A 1976 clipping from the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram shows high school sports star Fran O’Connell. CONTRIBUTED
Published: 6/9/2021 7:33:06 AM
HOLYOKE As a freshman at Holyoke Catholic High School in 1974, three-sport athlete Fran O’Connell was already a big name on campus. In a city zealous about its sports, O’Connell had already been promoted to the varsity football and basketball teams. Holyokers recognized him wherever he went.
But O’Connell, now 62, said that it was his new theology teacher, Robert Ellis Hosmer Jr., who showered him with the most attention: buying him gifts, tutoring him, taking him to fancy dinners and teaching him how to be sophisticated. That attention, however, came with a price as Hosmer grew more physical and began isolating the th