The first of three area drownings took place at Green Water Pond in Becket on July 4th. A former lifeguard says she tried to help

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51% : BECKET -- Asa Stone was sitting on her family's dock at Green Water Pond just after dusk on the Fourth of July when she heard someone say, "Has that man come up?"Rick Joseph Hiser Sr., a Lee farmer, apparently was in the pond by himself watching the fireworks, but had slipped out of view.
43% : On July 17, Pittsfield middle schooler Giver Essien, 12, drowned at Benedict Pond in Monterey; then a week later, 9-year-old June Cooper drowned at Lake Paran in North Bennington, Vt.Breaking A Pittsfield student who died in apparent drowning remembered as a rising eighth grader whose 'bright light shone brilliantly' By Amanda Burke, The Berkshire Eagle 2 min to readWhile the other two drownings were reported in the media at the time, Hiser's death had not been revealed until last week when Stone reached out to The Eagle about the Becket incident.

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