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State Officials To Visit Holyoke Soldiers' Home Where Top Officials Are Quitting Their Jobs

The Holyoke Soldier's Home
Mass.Dept of Veterans Services

Massachusetts State Officials plan to attend meetings Wednesday at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, where a management shakeup is taking place.

Representatives from the state Department of Veterans Services plan to attend the board of trustees meeting which is to be followed by a forum where residents and their families can ask questions.

Gov. Charlie Baker said last week the announcements that the top three officials at the state-owned nursing home for veterans will soon leave has his administration’s full attention.

" Holyoke Soldiers' Home is an important institution, not just in western Mass, but Massachusetts period," Baker said.

Baker said he was unaware of any disputes between the local officials and his administration over how the soldiers’ home is being run, or about the level of state financial support for the institution.

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.