image description — Are you looking for a historic brick property with many rooms to enjoy life in? Then this is the home for you.

Friday Front Porch Feature: The Woolen House

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
12:30PM / Friday, July 03, 2026Print Story | Email Story

HINSDALE, Mass. – Are you looking for a historic brick property with many rooms to enjoy life in? 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 103 Holmes Road.

This 1850 home has five bedrooms and two bathrooms with 3,062 square feet and less than an acre of land. The home used to belong to the Woolen Mill superintendent and is now reimagined for modern living.

The house features wood flooring throughout, as well as fireplaces. The home features original woodwork and 16-inch brick construction.

The kitchen is brand new with never-used stainless steel appliances, custom cabinetry, and fresh finishes perfect for its new owner who loves to be in the kitchen.

The house has a detached two-car garage and is close to Ashmere Lake and more trails.

The house is on the market for $439,999.

It is listed by Warren Dews Jr. from Keller Williams Realty.

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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Dalton Looks to Curb Sewer Infiltration as Rates More Than Double

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
12:19PM / Wednesday, September 23, 2026

DALTON, Mass. — The new sewer agreement with Pittsfield is going to "hurt" unless the town and its residents address the large amount of excess water entering the sewer system, Town Manager Eric Anderson told the Select Board last week.

The town's sewer rate has more than doubled for fiscal year 2027, with an annual bill of $1,217.08, which is billed biannually. The total bill for the town is $1,777,728.50.

"Our way out of this is reducing infiltration, reducing direct connections that shouldn't be there, and tracking down and figuring out how we can get the average household usage down. If we can do that, we can make this reasonable for the residents," Anderson said.

"I say that, but it's not easy to do, and we're not going to suddenly wake up tomorrow and go from 300 million gallons going to Pittsfield to 120 million gallons. So, we kind of have to be realistic about our expectations, but we've got to work pretty hard to address this."

More than a dozen residents attended the Select Board meeting, where Anderson outlined the history of the town's sewer agreement with Pittsfield, which dates back more than 50 years, along with the town's next steps in mitigating the cost.

In a follow-up interview with iBerkshires.com, Anderson said the town sends an average of roughly 350 million gallons of water into Pittsfield's wastewater system annually. This is significantly more than what a town of Dalton's size should be sending. Approximately 33 percent of this volume is the result of inflow from direct connections and infiltration of groundwater into the sewer system, he said.

The town understands that this new rate is challenging for some taxpayers, so it is implementing relief measures.

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