BEYOND THE OLD BOY NETWORK SOME IN HOLYOKE SEE A LEADERSHIP VACUUM

The Boston Globe;  July 8, 1990 ;     700+ words ...HOLYOKE - Sister Louise Thomas is a die-hard Red Sox fan, and like all Red Sox fans, she...his children attend. "This woman," O'Brien told those assembled, "is exactly what Holyoke needs." Four weeks ago, O'Brien's belief that politics-as-usual in Holyoke is a prescription for malaise led him and the ...

REBOUNDING HOLYOKE BATTLES BAD REPUTATION

The Boston Globe;  November 25, 2000 ;     700+ words ...HOLYOKE - When Mayor Mike Sullivan took office in January he knew...Sullivan said it seems that only the bad things that happen in Holyoke make front-page news, when, in fact, there are a lot of good things going on in the city. "Between the mills, the Holyoke Mall, and Holyoke Hospital, there are ...

Trashing Holyoke unfairly

The Boston Globe;  November 8, 1991 ;     340 words ...Voters in Holyoke have made themselves convenient targets...open to criticisms about their views of Holyoke's schoolchildren. It would be unfair...without looking at the broader picture. Holyoke, like many small cities across the country...

Alyce J. Holyoke

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  March 29, 2007 ;     158 words ...Alyce J. Holyoke STOUGHTON - Alyce J. (Allen) Holyoke, 63, of Stoughton, a housekeeper, died Tuesday at Brockton Hospital from complications of multiple sclerosis. Mrs. Holyoke worked many years in several area homes. She was born and...

Edward J. Moriarty, 78 Was schools chief in Holyoke

The Boston Globe;  October 1, 1991 ;     152 words ...Edward J. Moriarty, superintendent of schools in Holyoke until his retirement 10 years ago, died Sunday at Holyoke Hospital. He was 78 and a lifelong resident of Holyoke. Mr. Moriarty, a second baseman and captain of the baseball team...

IN HOLYOKE, STATE OBSERVERS MET WITH SKEPTICISM, PRAISE

The Boston Globe;  January 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...HOLYOKE - One visitor watched and occasionally laughed with students...taking notes, as math teacher Mike Porcello walked his Holyoke High School students through factoring equations. And one...minutes with Mary Ann C. Dunn's batch of 10th-graders at Holyoke High, who were writing proofs about ...

ONCE-PROUD HOLYOKE AIMS TO REVERSE ITS DECLINE

The Boston Globe;  August 17, 2002 ;     700+ words ...HOLYOKE - There are problems in this former mill town on the Connecticut...decreased by 4.8 percent last year, compared to 2000. But in Holyoke, murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault soared by...subject area - since the test was first given in 1998. Holyoke's unemployment rate was 6.5 percent in ...

UNFAIR TEST IN HOLYOKE

The Boston Globe;  May 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ...THE SCHOOL superintendent in Holyoke, the poorest community in Massachusetts...being put in state receivership. The Holyoke report is the first to be released...Chicopee, North Adams, and Westfield. If Holyoke is any precedent, local school officials...

JAMES K. KELLY, 56 WAS HEAD OF HOLYOKE SCHOOLS

The Boston Globe;  October 22, 1989 ;     214 words ......at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Sacred Heart Church, Holyoke, for James K. Kelly, a former Holyoke schools superintendent and administrative assistant...speaker David M. Bartley. Mr. Kelly died Friday in Holyoke Hospital. He was 56 and lived in Holyoke. He...

Mary V. Harrington, 80 Retired Holyoke teacher

The Boston Globe;  October 8, 1994 ;     127 words ...Mary V. Harrington of Holyoke, a longtime teacher in the Holyoke school system, died Thursday in Mt. St. Vincent Home in Holyoke. She was 80. Miss Harrington was born in Holyoke. She graduated from Elm College in Chicopee and earned a master's degree...

HOLYOKE'S HOUSING PAST IS PROLOGUE FOR BOSTON

The Boston Globe;  April 18, 1988 ;     700+ words ...HOLYOKE - When they told this old mill city it had been discriminating...in the projects would get worse. But the experience of Holyoke has not realized everyone's worst fears. Instead, the racially...In being forced to change its tenant selection policy, Holyoke, a city of about 40,000 built on a hill of ...

`A warehouse for the poor'; Holyoke absorbs state's homeless

The Boston Globe;  February 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ...HOLYOKE - Eleven families are crammed into the tattered Main Street Shelter for the homeless in Holyoke. But none are from the city. They came from Lawrence, Springfield...were overwhelmed. One of the poorest cities in the state, Holyoke has plenty of homeless shelters, affordable housing, and...

Many bridle at labeling of Holyoke as riot tinder

The Boston Globe;  October 19, 1992 ;     700+ words ...HOLYOKE -- In a low-income neighborhood known as "the flats," a...windows. Wind whipped bits of trash across the street. Holyoke, they agreed, has many problems: high crime, too much unemployment...they said the claims of a recent state report -- calling Holyoke ripe for a riot -- were "dumb." "Riot against ...

HOLYOKE BATTLES ETHNIC TENSION

The Boston Globe;  March 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ...HOLYOKE - In this city once dubbed Ireland Parish, where Irish...emerald sheen, a kind of ode to a history slipping away. Holyoke may have an Irish mayor - and city treasurer and council...jobs were plentiful, everyone from Northampton flocked to Holyoke's streets for night-time frivolity, and gun violence ...

HOLYOKE'S TEST CASE CITY'S FAILURE RATES ARE CRUX OF A LAWSUIT ON MCAS

The Boston Globe;  October 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ...HOLYOKE - The word under discussion in Ruth Green's English class...circumstances that led lawyers to use the long-troubled Holyoke public schools as the staging ground for a lawsuit to throw...because of jobs or after-school sports? Should Dean Tech, Holyoke High School, and others have started tutoring ...