Blackstone Valley

The licensing option is a track intended to make it easier for small businesses with less capital to start making sales and earn back their startup costs, but so far licensing has been plagued with the same types of challenges and delay-induced financing issues as much larger license endeavors.

Stephen Murphy, the director of training at Worcester human services nonprofit Open Sky Community Services, retired after 38 years on June 30, the Worcester organization announced on Tuesday.

In an interview on the WBJ Podcast, the co-founders of Uxbridge cannabis startup Blackstone Valley Naturals said the key to surviving Massachusetts' long and expensive regulatory process is to stay as lean as possible.

After meeting in the Colorado marijuana industry, Kevin MacConnell & Tim Phillips set out to start an Uxbridge cannabis company, creating custom marijuana products for dispensaries.

A retail building with a Dunkin' and a Shell gas station on Lackey Dam Road in Uxbridge has sold for $1.85 million.

Former Uxbridge town accountant Justin Cole, 38, of Harvard was indicted by a statewide grand jury for allegedly stealing more than $729,000 from Uxbridge, Millville and a Western Massachusetts town, Attorney General Maura Healey announced on Tuesday. 

Companies with new hires and promotions include UniBank, Vision Advertising, Westfield State University and Bay State Savings Bank, among others.

The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission gave Blackstone Valley Naturals of Uxbridge, doing business as Yamna, the final greenlight to commence operations as soon as Friday, the commission announced on Monday.

Companies with new hires and promotions include ERA Key Realty Services, bankHometown, Clinton Savings Bank, The Junior League of Worcester, AdCare Hospital in Worcester and more.

David Andelman, who bought the Mendon Twin Drive-In with his brothers Dan and Michael Andelman in 2014, will resign from the company, as well as CEO of Phantom Gourmet, Inc. in Boston, which he co-founded in 2013, according to a statement posted to the Phantom Gourmet page on Facebook on Tuesday.