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The Cannabis Control Commission has re-upped the lease for its temporary digs in the Financial District, but expects to move into its Boston satellite office next month and get settled into its new Worcester headquarters by the end of 2019.

A fight between Worcester’s Coghlin Electrical Contractors and one of the state’s largest construction firms is lingering nearly a month beyond the opening of the project they were involved with, the Encore Boston Harbor casino hotel.

Shrewsbury planning officials have begun what’s expected to be a long review of a major mixed-use development at the long-vacant former Edgemere Drive-In theater to feature a Market Basket grocery store and 250 apartments.

Anna Maria College in Paxton will offer three new majors starting this fall: health administration, digital and social media design, and video and photographic arts.

Capital Group Properties, a Southborough developer, plans to begin work this month on a 129-unit housing development on the former Millwood Farms Golf Course in Framingham.

Tri-State Truck Center, a Shrewsbury truck dealer, has merged with a truck dealership network to create a new company called Advantage Truck Group.

Worcester behavioral health and education agency YOU Inc. is putting its Templeton facility on the market, with plans to relocate once a sale is completed.

A Marlborough construction software firm has sold the distribution rights of its industry software platform to an Atlanta-area company.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is receiving $82,000 for an initiative with Quinsigamond Community College to develop and run a curriculum for Greater Worcester public school students to learn robotics.

Available office space remains abundant in MetroWest, with vacancy rates in the high teens in the second quarter of the year, according to property reports released this week.