State-Appointed School Receiver Begins Turnaround Work

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published September 1, 2015 at 12:19 PM EDT

The new school year is underway in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The long troubled school system was placed under state control last spring and a receiver was appointed June 1^st. On the opening day of school, as students arrived at Dean Vocational High School, WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with receiver Stephen Zrike.

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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.

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