Great Barrington Community Impact Fund Committee Recommends Awards

10:47AM / Tuesday, January 02, 2024Print Story | Email Story

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The town Community Impact Fund Committee has recommended the distribution of the following funds to area nonprofits:

Railroad Street Youth Project, $162,000 for community work to educate and mentor youth in the community.
Rural Recovery Resources, $100,000 to support the addition of a bilingual recovery coach.
Volunteers in Medicine, $56,000 to support substance abuse counseling work, which also received CIF funding last year.
Great Barrington Police Department, $182,000 over two years to help fund a Co-responder Program, which includes a mental health professional to accompany police to calls when needed.

Funds are received annually by the town from cannabis-related businesses, and the CIF Committee recommends how the funds are allocated, with priority for organizations addressing health-related impacts of cannabis businesses in the community. Presently five such businesses operate in town.

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Friday Front Porch Feature: A Luxury Home in Lee

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
06:30PM / Friday, October 16, 2026

LEE, Mass. — Are you looking for a luxury and maintenance free home? Then this is the home for you.

Our Friday Front Porch is a weekly feature spotlighting attractive homes for sale in Berkshire County. This week, we are showcasing 577 Mallard Lane.

This 2012 Row House has five bedrooms and four bathrooms. The home is 3,392 square feet with over an acre of land to enjoy.

The home features an open floor plan with wood floors throughout. The first floor includes a primary bedroom with a walk-in closet. The floor also includes a laundry room and another bedroom.

The second floor includes three more bedrooms and a family room. Outside you can enjoy a screened in porch or enjoy the full sun right next door.

It is on the market for $1,450,000; the listing is with Denise DeSellier at Berkshire Hathaway Home Services.

You can find out more about this house on its listing here.

*Front Porch Feature brings you an exclusive to some of the houses listed on our real estate page every week. Here we take a bit of a deeper dive into a certain house for sale and ask questions so you don't have to.

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