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Overall, this $6.9-million pool of funds will be used to redevelop or rehabilitate 37 homes across the state. 

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.

Swinford is the CEO of Numotion, a Tennessee-based wheelchair and mobility equipment company. Numotion has 150 storefronts in the country, including a location in Worcester.

Silverman will lead revenue growth efforts, sales strategies, and customer engagement as the IT world adapts to the rapid adoption of AI-based technology, according to a press release issued by The Channel Co. on Tuesday. 

Prospective home buyers in Central Massachusetts are still largely dealing with record high prices and limited inventory, as the average cost of a home purchase in Middlesex and Worcester counties is up around 10% in the last year. 

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.

The honor is granted by the College of Ministers & Laity at Morehouse College, a private Georgia HBCU and the largest men’s liberal arts college in the country.

Main Street Bank has a new member of its executive team, as the Marlborough-based bank has named David Felton as its executive vice president and chief deposit officer.

Jeffrey Thomas has been named as the new chief financial officer of the Massachusetts market of Tenet Healthcare. 

People are moving up at Cornerstone Bank, the Marlborough Economic Development Council, and bankHometown.