Holyoke News

With only 10 days until the Springfield Armor hits the court in its first game, the players and coaches held a meet and greet with the public at the local YMCA.

For a decade, the Rev. Carmen G. Andino has led her parish members on a mission of peace.

The Thanksgiving Classic Cluster Dog Show and Obedience Trial begins a week before the holiday and runs through Sunday at the Big E grounds in West Springfield.

Here, Commerce David Garaffa, left and Bakeesh Brown tries to collar Jonathan Robert for Holyoke on a first quarter run.

State legislators approved $500,000 on Thursday to save the outpatient department at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, even as the governor warned that additional budget cuts may be needed.

The charter study commission at its first meeting on Wednesday night scheduled a public hearing for Dec.

About 50 veterans and other supporters of the Holyoke Soldiers Home converged on Beacon Hill on Wednesday to protest the planned closure of a medical clinic for outpatients and possible layoffs.

The City Council unanimously approved the borrowing of $4.5 million on Tuesday that will be the bulk of the $5.5 million to $8.5 million needed to build a new senior center, which now consists of a windowless basement on Appleton Street.

They're all different ages, from different backgrounds, but Sunday, Holyoke residents came together as partners in peace.

The City Council Finance Committee voted 3-1 Monday night to recommend approval of a transfer of $150,000 to bolster the Police Department overtime account.

An independent investigation of the death of a Boston Celtics fan who stopped breathing while in police custody found that officers acted reasonably and did not contribute to the man's death, but also concluded that police made some mistakes during the arrest.

Police Chief Anthony R. Scott has requested help to fight crime in the form of $150,000 to bolster the department's diminishing overtime account and a watchful public to keep in touch with police.

Police arrested three men early Thursday morning after they allegedly fired a gun from their vehicle on Pleasant Street, according to Chief Anthony R. Scott.

Eight firefighters who have been off the job for more than three months are headed back to work Sunday.

State Senator Michael Knapik has written to the governor asking him to reconsider his closing of an outpatient service at the Holyoke Soldiers Home.

A vehicle stop by police early Thursday morning at Cabot and East streets yielded the arrest of three suspects on cocaine, marijuana and firearm charges.

Police arrested a Holyoke man after he and an accomplice allegedly broke into an Oak Street home and threatened two women with guns Monday night, according to Holyoke Police Chief Anthony R. Scott.

The School Committee selected long-term city educator David L. Dupont as its next superintendent Tuesday night.

For a city that has waited 113 years for a thorough review of its form of government, what's another few weeks? Or longer.

Police arrested a 28-year-old city man on cocaine charges Monday morning following a street stop on Appleton Street.