Ashby

United is one of the few cannabis companies in Central Massachusetts operating an outdoor cultivation site.

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 goal of this effort is to better the health of community members in 11 communities: Ashby, Ayer, Bolton, Groton, Harvard, Lancaster, Littleton, Lunenburg, Pepperell, Shirley, and Townsend.

The Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts is accepting grant applications for the Nashoba Valley Healthcare Fund Grant Program.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has fined Ayer food manufacturing company Nasoya Foods USA, LLC. a total of $19,902 for violating hazardous waste regulations.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has sent $6.9 million in grants and loans to Ashby, Southbridge, and Sturbridge as part of a larger $222-million pot of funding set aside from improving what it calls critical community facilities, the department announced on Monday. 

Sean Smith, owner of 873 Cafe Tavern in Ashby, has received a $75,000 loan through the North Central Massachusetts Development Corporation.

More than 200 acres of wooded land at the southern slope of Mount Watatic at the Ashburnham and Ashby line have been bought for conservation by the Leominster-based North County Land Trust.

Boston preservation group The Trustees has acquired the 296-acre Jewell Hill Farm, which spans Ashby, Ashburnham and Fitchburg to protect the drinking water supply, the organization announced on Wednesday.

Central Mass. addiction treatment providers have a difficult time finding financial solvency when providing services to MassHealth patients.