A World War II-era air raid siren sounded in Holyoke again Friday after the City Council passed a special ordinance to restore the weekly tradition.

A World War II air raid siren sounded Friday afternoon for the first time in weeks after an anonymous complaint forced the city to silence the decades-old tradition.

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – Two Holyoke city councilors are seeking to amend the city’s noise ordinance to restore the weekly sounding of a historic World War II-era air raid siren. The effort follows a ...

HOLYOKE ― Every Friday at noon, a Cold War-era siren mounted atop a pale green caboose has issued a startling, historic blast. “You can’t be outside directly,” said Tina Walsh, recalling the first ...

It was early morning on February 25, 1942, and Los Angeles was already on edge after Pearl Harbor. Air raid sirens sounded without warning, and a full blackout was ordered across the city.

With Dec. 7 marking the 84th anniversary and with so few veterans who witnessed that awful day first-hand remaining, the attack on Pearl Harbor seems like a moment fading into history with each ...

None of the 12 surviving US military members from the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor — all of whom are more than 100 years old — were able to attend this year’s ceremony in Hawaii. It’s part of a ...

HONOLULU — Alongside Pearl Harbor on Sunday, former Navy nurse Alice Darrow peered out to the watery spot where, amid the lethal chaos of the surprise attack 84 years earlier, a machine gun bullet ...

The Pearl Harbor movie turns one of history’s darkest mornings into a sweeping Hollywood romance, and that gap is exactly why it keeps trending decades later. Directed by Michael Bay and released on ...