PROJECT PAYCHECK: Lenox is an “economically distressed” community. So is nearby Hinsdale, and even Becket. How these three relatively affluent Berkshire County towns got that designation – earning them a splash of red on a map – will be one of the pandemic’s weirdest footnotes.

PITTSFIELD — The Berkshire Regional Planning Commission has received $842,522 in federal CARES Act money to develop a program to provide techn…