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Gazette beat reporter ready to cover Hilltowns
Bera Dunau
My journalism career began in the Hilltowns.
In 2011, I was interviewed for a reporter’s position at The Berkshire Beacon, a small Lenox-based paper. Because I was visiting friends in the Pioneer Valley at the time, the publisher and I met at the Old Creamery in Cummington. I got the job, less than a year after graduating from Hampshire College, and the course of my life was forever altered.
A lot has happened since that successful interview in the Hilltowns.
My career has taken me from the Berkshires, to Cooperstown, New York, to Foxboro and finally to the Daily Hampshire Gazette, where I’ve worked for more than three years. I’ve covered U.S. Rep. Richard Neal’s 2012 primary challenge, talked with people in line for marijuana on the first day of legal recreational sales in Northampton, reviewed a Bruce Springsteen concert at Gillette Stadium, chronicled a community coming to terms with the crimes of a monster, a
Region gets a powder day
Chris Devine walks on Main Street in Northampton on Thursday morning during the storm. GAZETTE PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Modified: 12/17/2020 7:54:48 PM
EASTHAMPTON As a tumultuous and difficult year comes to a close, Pioneer Valley residents were able to return to a normal, expected hardship on Thursday shoveling sidewalks and driveways.
A snowstorm hit the region overnight on Wednesday into Thursday, dropping fresh powder across the Valley and turning it into a not-quite-winter-yet wonderland. Residents were outside on Thursday afternoon as the snow stopped falling, shoveling out from more than a foot of snow in many communities. Temperatures around 20 degrees kept the snow light and fluffy.
‘Everybody needs a little bit of help sometimes’: Community Cupboard offers support in time of need
Louise Hurwitz fills bags of food for Chesterfield residents as part of the Community Cupboard program at the Chesterfield Council on Aging. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Louise Hurwitz fills bags of food for Lillian Bisbee, a Chesterfield resident, as part of the Community Cupboard program at the Chesterfield Council on Aging. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Louise Hurwitz and Jan Gibeau, the director of the Chesterfield Council on Aging, fills bags of food for Chesterfield residents as part of the Community Cupboard program. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Modified: 12/10/2020 7:39:15 PM
CHESTERFIELD Lillian Bisbee, who chairs the Council on Aging, hasn’t spent her gift certificate to the Chesterfield General Store and Cafe just yet, but she’s looking forward to it.
“I’ll probably wait until just before Christmas,” said Bisbee. “And then go up and get a meal for me and my son.”
Bisbee is one of more than 200 seniors in town who have been given gift certificates to the Chesterfield General Store, courtesy of the COA, with a value totaling more than $3,000.
“It’s the town’s way of saying Merry Christmas. Or Happy Holidays, as it were,” said Janice Gibeau, the director of the COA.