Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Massachusetts on the Connecticut River north of Springfield. Following the completion of a dam in 1849, it became a major manufacturing center specializing in paper products.
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Examples
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HOLYOKE - A motor vehicle stop by police at Cabot and South Canal streets Monday afternoon yielded the arrests of a Holyoke man and an Amherst man on heroin charges.
Reader - MassLive.com George Graham 2010
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HOLYOKE - Firefighters are at the scene of a house fire at 1144 Hampden St. in Holyoke, attempting to extinguish an early morning blaze.
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HOLYOKE - Firefighters are at the scene of a house fire at 1144 Hampden St. in Holyoke, attempting to extinguish an early morning blaze.
Reader - MassLive.com George Graham 2010
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HOLYOKE - A street stop, conducted by Holyoke police outside a West Street apartment Thursday night, yielded the arrest of three suspects and large quantities of heroin and cocaine.
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HOLYOKE - Holyoke police, responding to a report of three suspects spray-painting stop signs Monday night at Brown Avenue and Laurel Street, arrested two of them for armed robbery.
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HOLYOKE - U.S. Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of S.aff, came to Holyoke Thursday to receive an award from a Northampton-based veterans support organization for helping homeless veterans, but Mullen said, it's that group, S.ldier On, that deserves the praise.
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HOLYOKE - The housing authorities for Holyoke and Greenfield recently received federal grants aimed at helping residents improve their work skills and obtain a job.
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HOLYOKE - Holyoke police, executing a search warrant at a Hampden Street dwelling Monday afternoon, arrested two residents for trafficking cocaine and heroin.
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HOLYOKE - A second man arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Holyoke man Aug. 9 remained under guard at Springfield hospital Saturday after attempting suicide, police said.
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Whiting was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts on July 20, 1864 into one of those families of Yankee industrialists who were the mainstays of the pre-WWII Republican Party.
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