Clinton

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.

John Perten, an attorney from Boston-based law firm Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, which represented Chiller in the case, declined to disclose details of the settlement to WBJ.

Clark University, the Leominster East Side Community Center, and the MetroWest YMCA Regional Early Learning Center are among the 20 Central Massachusetts entities slated to benefit from $23.08 million in federal funding pending final approval by the U.S. Senate and President Joe Biden.

The report calls for a number of improvements to Framingham/Worcester Line service.

People are on the move at Sundin Marketing, North Brookfield Savings Bank, and Clinton Savings Bank.

While the first five years saw more than $5 billion in sales and hundreds of businesses opening, uncertainty awaits ahead for the next five years.

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Development awarded $164 million through 338 grants for economic development projects around the state, including 55 in Central Mass.

Chiller Technology, a Woburn-based HVAC company, is suing Milkmen Cultivation, a Clinton-based cannabis company, over a lack of payments.

Sterling Street Brewery, a microbrewery based in Clinton, is planning on opening a second location in Devens next year. The new location will occupy a 8,300-square-foot building in Pathway Devens.