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Emergency Food Pantries See Increased Demand

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published May 10, 2014 at 12:49 PM EDT
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The largest one-day food drive in the nation is happening today. Letter carriers across the country are collecting donations of non-perishable foods left by mailboxes or dropped off at post offices. The food will be distributed to local emergency food pantries.   200,000 people sought emergency food assistance in western Massachusetts last year – a 50 percent increase from just five years ago, according to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.  WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Candace Larger, the director of the Open Pantry emergency food pantry in Springfield.
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Paul Tuthill
The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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