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Worcester Polytechnic Institute will begin offering four certification programs for cannabis professionals – covering business, law and policy, agriculture, and health care – starting Sept. 5 for this fall semester.

After 10 years of owning the Gazbar Sports Grill in Leominster, Erica Grinkis is working on a few small projects to keep the eatery fun and enticing, but its main goal is to keep the space familiar to regulars.

A pilot program will allow qualifying Massachusetts restaurants and food trucks to accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits as payment for prepared food.

The owners of Friendly Crossways in Harvard have sold their property at 247 Littleton County Road and a neighboring lot in Harvard for $2.2 million.

Ruth’s Chris Steak House has confirmed to WBJ it plans to open its location at 4 Mercantile St., Worcester on Aug. 1.

A proposed Grafton cannabis dispensary has taken another step toward opening to the public, requiring that employees of the location be licensed through a dispensary associate certificate.

Sanctuary Medicinals, a cannabis company with locations in Massachusetts and Florida, has purchased its Littleton headquarters and cultivation facility at 234 Taylor St. for $4.5 million.

Construction is complete on Boston-based GreenCare Collective’s new 100,000-square-foot cannabis facility at 12 Latti Farm Road in Millbury.

The former location of a Walgreens Pharmacy at 256 Washington St. in Hudson has been sold for $2.7 million to the owner of NGP Management of North Reading, a Dunkin’ franchise with 118 locations.

The woman-owned Alicia’s Spice Co. in Worcester is racing down a path of growth, evident with its Biz-M-Power partnership in June or its developing goal of putting products in schools.