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Victim in Holyoke homicide identified
July 16, 2024 -Holyoke- On Wednesday, July 9, 2024, at 11:22 p.m., officers from the Holyoke Police Department responded to the area of the 50 block of West Street for a reported shot spotter activation. Responding officers located an adult male gunshot victim who was transported to Baystate Medical Center along with two other people with non-life threatening injuries. The victim soon passed away from the injuries he received.
Community grasps for meaning after killing: ‘He was a humble, kind man’
HOLYOKE — Leonardo Ortiz, Jr., was packing up his little brother Dexter’s things when, inside a reusable grocery bag, he found tiny objects neatly wrapped in newspaper. “They were my father’s old model cars,” Ortiz realized after unpacking each one. “He loved my father.”. If...
78 Years After a B-17 Crashed on Mount Tom People Gather to Remember
HOLYOKE — Saturday morning broke hot and muggy, not unlike the day 78 years ago when 25 men climbed about a converted B-17 bomber to fly from Greenland to New York after the end of World War II. But the plane never made it. Fast forward 78 years and...
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