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Massachusetts' acting Commissioner of Education Russell Johnston was in Holyoke on Monday, meeting with school committee members. Holyoke Public Schools have been under state control since 2015.
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Massachusetts officials said the future owners of the Iron Horse need to submit a certificate of good standing for former owner Eric Suher — and Suher has said it will be awhile.
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A garage and retail space in Springfield hit a new milestone Tuesday, with a final slab of concrete placed at the top of the structure.
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Springfield's new Chief Administration and Financial Officer was sworn in Monday.
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Following her State of the Commonwealth address, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has begun offering a sketch of areas where she feels the state still has enough money to deliver critical improvements. She will file her budget with the Legislature by Wednesday.
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Mayor Domenic Sarno made the announcement on Monday — Martin Luther King Jr. Day — naming Deputy Chief Lawrence Akers as the city's next police superintendent.
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The Shoestring reported that the embattled police chief of Greenfield, Massachusetts, and his top deputy received substantial raises from former Mayor Roxann Wedegartner the week before she lost her reelection bid last November.
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Ginny Desorgher is one of several mayors in western Massachusetts being sworn-in this week. She is replacing incumbent Roxann Wedegartner.
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About a few hundred people attended the swearing in held at Symphony Hall’s Mahogony Room on Monday for Domenic Sarno, Springfield's longest serving mayor who has held the job since 2008.
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In a letter dated December 21, 2023, Holyoke Public School Superintendent Anthony Soto told Massachusetts education officials he recommends the state "begin the transition to exit receivership in a careful and highly planned manner."