Uxbridge

Marlborough-based BJ’s Wholesale Club has named Scott Schmadeke as executive vice president, chief operations officer, effective immediately.

Four Central Massachusetts businesses have received a combined $449,354 from a program designed to assist small and midsize manufacturers.

A total of six residential properties in Northbridge, Uxbridge, and Douglas have been sold for a combined $3.95 million to a trio of entities.

Social equity cannabis companies say more support needed.

Uxbridge-based manufacturer Lampin Corp. appointed president and CEO John Biagioni to its board of directors.

Barry Desruisseaux is a minority owner of Green N' Go, but the current investor group is attempting to remove him from ownership.

Outdoor growers face a litany of hurdles to bring product to market, but the end result can be an environmentally friendlier option to indoor production.

The company has opened a new home improvement shop in Pembroke and is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the opening of its Uxbridge location, which was the company’s 13th location.

Current rules require two employees to be in any vehicle that is transporting cannabis, but commissioners voted in December three to one to approve a change to eliminate that requirement. Business owners are waiting for the commission to formally rewrite and approve the regulations, a process that has taken four months.

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.