HOLYOKE, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Public safety was on the mind of Governor Maura Healey, as she attended a roundtable discussion in the paper city Monday evening.

The focus for Governor Healey and the local leaders who joined her Monday was “safe neighborhoods.”

The roundtable featured discussions on statewide public safety strategies. Western Mass News heard from the governor following the discussion.

She explained how public safety funding will be used for a Safe Neighborhood Initiative, and how it will impact communities across the state, including right here in western Massachusetts: “We take that funding we give it to departments, district attorney’s offices, and they can do the work they have to do, take guns off the streets take drugs off the street and make for a better quality of l

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