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Eva O’Connell, 1st female Holyoke police officer to carry gun, work streets as detective, dies

                  Eva M. O’Connell, a retired Holyoke Police Department lieutenant and the first female officer to carry a gun and work the streets, died Tuesday. She was 74. “Eva served the city nobly for decades as a police officer rising to the rank of lieutenant,” City Council […]

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