Community Spotlight
Aaron Vega says there are many cannabis-related businesses now operating in Holyoke, and many more in the pipeline. Joshua Garcia, Holyoke’s first Puerto Rican mayor and a lifelong resident of this historic community, says that, in many respects, history is repeating itself in the city. Elaborating, he said that for the better part of a century, the paper and textile mills on the canals were a symbol of strength, a source of jobs, and, in many ways, the city’s identity It wasn’t that way through the latter half of the 20th century as most of the mills ...
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