Companies, advocates say marijuana firms are agreeing to excessive host community payments
According to marijuana industry advocates and lawmakers, cities and towns ask for what they call exorbitant cash payments and services, which advocates say don't comply with the law.
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Worcester's fifth breweryRedemption Rock Brewing Co. looks to join the city's craft beer scene by December |
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Help Needed: Massachusetts has the largest construction worker shortage in the nationWith the Massachusetts unemployment rate at just 3.6 percent in July, construction firms simply can't find enough workers. |
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Worcester approves $101M ballpark financingWorcester City Councilors have approved the borrowing of nearly $101 million to pay for the design, construction and land acquisition costs for the new home of the Pawtucket Red Sox. >> Continue Reading |
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Teaching the sighted to be blindLiz Myska, an elder law attorney, has been blind for 10 years. In that time, she developed a side business to help the disabled navigate the world of available services. >> Continue Reading |
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Movers & ShakersThe Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce has hired two new staff members. ALEX GUARDIOLA has been hired as director of government affairs and public policy. He is a Worcester native and alumni of Saint John’s High School in Shrewsbury, University Of New Hampshire, and New England School of Law in Boston. He previously worked for UMass Medical School/Commonwealth Medicine’s Center for Healthcare Finance. NICHOLAS TROTTO is the new... >> Continue Reading |
Ad & marketing communications firms
Ranked by annual gross billings, then no. of local employees
| Rank | Firm | Gross billings | Year founded |
| 1 | Davis Advertising, Worcester | $25 million | 1948 |
| 2 | Turtle Transit Inc., Hudson | $5 million | 2001 |
| 3 | Wakefly Inc., Marlborough | $4.7 million | 2002 |
Source: Each firm via survey
Caroline's Cannabis in Uxbridge will be state's first woman-owned, small business retail store
Bloominus wants to be Worcester's first Main Street cannabis store
Medical pot dispensary Mass Wellspring in Acton ordered to shut down
Sterling won't support recreational marijuana grower Acreage
Former Worcester shoe factory to be rehabilitated for U-Haul storage facility