Agriculture

Shortly after Massachusetts residents voted to legalize recreational marijuana for adult use, officials at BayCoast Bank realized there could be a problem.

Polar Beverages, the venerable Worcester manufacturer of sparkling water beverages, has joined a nationwide movement aimed at reducing food waste and promoting recycling. 

Devens hydroponic grower Little Leaf Farms has hired a former vice president of sales from the California fruit company Dole as its new senior vice president of sales.

Properties in Ayer in Harvard were purchased by Michigan produce company Riveridge Produce Marketing Inc. of Sparta, Mich. for $3 million, according to the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds and the Worcester District Registry of Deeds.

Food waste conversion company, Feedback Earth Inc. of Grafton, will pay a $9,520 fine levied by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection for violations of the air pollution and solid waste regulations.

An entity registered to the owners of Boston cannabis firm Sugar Grove purchased a facility in Templeton for $1.3 million.

Devens-based Little Leaf Farms has secured $300 million in capital investment to help the hydroponic lettuce company further expand its operations. 

The Power 50 may not necessarily hold the most power in the region, but they are the people who most effectively wielded their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and the community within the last year.

Friday is the last day to submit nominations for Worcester Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty Award.

Most Massachusetts family farmers do not earn enough for a surtax on household income above $1 million to hit their regular paychecks, but they could feel significant effects if they sell land or if the change in tax code alters the state's business climate, opponents of the proposal said Wednesday.