The state grants, totaling $115,000, will fund the restoration of Revolutionary War monuments and site work for the town's first four-unit affordable-housing cluster.
In 1902, while attending a conference for the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Great Barrington, Frederick Stark Pearson purchased the Tuller farm on Seekonk Cross Road.
Sheila was passionate about women's rights and became executive director of the Women's Services Center in Pittsfield, founded in 1974 (now the Elizabeth Freeman Center).