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
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene gave a speech before the House debated stripping her of committee assignments.
She said she expressed support for assassinating Democrats because of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Greene also acknowledged that school shootings and the 9/11 terrorist attacks actually happened.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Thursday that she promoted and expressed support for social-media posts calling for violence against Democrats because of the QAnon conspiracy theory.