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Eleven cannabis firms in Central Mass. receive $530K from first Social Equity Trust Fund grants

Just as cannabis businesses are gearing up for the holiday known as 4/20, an unofficial celebration of marijuana where dispensaries see some of their largest crowds of the year, eleven companies in Central Massachusetts received $430,000 from the first grants from the Massachusetts Cannabis Social Equity Trust Fund.

🔒HollyWoo production, halted: The industry built around Central Mass. moviemaking reached new heights in the early 2020s, before 2023 pressed pause

Once a production desert, Central Massachusetts has seen a large increase in Hollywood-related activity in the past 15 years. Then, the strikes came.

Willard House & Clock Museum in Grafton gifted $15M to support expansion

Willard House & Clock Museum has been granted more than $15 million by museum Trustee Charles Grichar to benefit an expansion of the collection and building projects. 

Dispensary employees in Oxford the latest cannabis workers to unionize after 15-3 vote

Employees at the Curaleaf dispensary in Oxford have joined a number of Massachusetts cannabis industry workers who...
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More Central Mass. businesses incorporated in January than any month since 2017

In January, more businesses were incorporated in Central Massachusetts than in any other month since at least January 2017, outpacing the state as a whole, which also set a record for new business starts.

Former Grafton State Hospital site planned for life sciences complex after $2.65M sale

Grafton State Hospital operated as a mental health facility from 1901 to 1973, when it was shuttered as part of the state’s deinstitutionalization efforts.

Wildlife nonprofit at Southwick’s Zoo to construct new center, expand programming

The new center will be larger than the organization’s current facility at the zoo and allow for an expansion of its educational and outreach programs.

DPH offering $10M in grants to improve maternal health and morbidity

State public health officials intend to award $10 million in grants for maternal and reproductive health care initiatives, as the Healey administration looks to combat the worsening rate of severe maternal morbidity that's disproportionately impacting people of color.
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Movers & Shakers for March 18, 2024

Central Massachusetts professionals are being hired and promoted at organizations like ERA Key Realty Services, Fidelity Bank, and Rollstone Bank & Trust.

🔒Bringing golf indoors: A booming market for golf simulator businesses is keeping players swinging year round

Golf simulators harmonize well with green-grass courses, said Jesse Menachem, executive director and CEO of Mass Golf.
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