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It wasn’t just the Holyoke city solicitor’s “considered opinion,” as the saying goes. The circumstances that led a fugitive from justice to seek permission to vote in next month’s Holyoke election are, as Lisa Ball put it, “certainly unique.”

Bizarre is more like it.

More than a year after he fled criminal charges in Rhode Island and joined the Russian military, Wilmer Puello-Mota got a wild notion . He took a few minutes from whatever malevolence occupies his days to rekindle a connection with the land he left behind. In ea

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