image description — This cottage on New Lenox Road has two bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Friday Front Porch: A Comfortable Cottage

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
05:44PM / Friday, May 08, 2026Print Story | Email Story

LENOX, Mass. — Are you looking for a cottage comfortably nestled away in the trees? Then this might be 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 181 New Lenox Road.

This 1951 home has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. It is 1,457 square feet on a little over an acre of land and is just a short distance from Tanglewood.

The home features wood floors, a heated sunporch, and a new back deck. The back yard has a basketball court and a shed for extra space. The house recently also got a new 200-amp electrical service comes with major appliances.

The house is on the market for $489,000.

It is listed by Karen Climo of William Pitt Sotheby's.

You can find out more about this home 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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Wixsom Leads Force 12U Softball Team in Tourney Opener

iBerkshires.com Sports11:26PM / Friday, September 11, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Emma Wixsom struck out eight of the nine batters she faced in Friday’s opener of the Berkshire Fall Frenzy as the host Force 12-and-under travel softball team beat the Greylock Thunder, 14-0, in three innings.

Wixsom was credited with a perfect game in the contest, which was ended by the tournament’s run rule.

McKinley Bushika led the Force’s offense, going 3-for-3 with a pair of RBIs. Charlotte Kotski tripled, and Lilly Tuohy doubled in a nine-hit attack.

In its second game in the six-team tournament on Friday evening, the Force beat the East Greenbush, N.Y., Xpress Crushers, 5-3.

Peyton Demary went 3 and two-thirds innings in the circle before giving the ball to Wixsom. Demary struck out eight while allowing two earned runs.

Kotski was a difference maker at the plate, going 2-for-3 with an RBI in a six-hit attack for the Force.

Berkshire Saturday starts its day against the 413 Panthers out of Hampden at the Doyle Complex.

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