The Executive Office of Economic Development awarded 194 grants totaling $28.8 million through the Cannabis Social Equity Grant Program in fiscal year 2026.
Consultant Brandon Pollock explained that medicinal marijuana dispensaries are “set up like pharmacies,” and “heavily regulated by the Department of Health.”
Joffe said he thinks the community got nervous when all the dramatic construction work stopped, possibly because of the hullaballoo over the former Castle Street firehouse.
Tennessee Gas plans to use millions of gallons from Spectacle Pond to flush out newly installed pipes, raising concerns about chemicals from the pipes being released into the environment.
Eunice was awarded the American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, and WWII Victory Medal. She was also awarded the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal Bronze Service Star on July 16, 1945.
A small bag of heroin is now cheaper than a six-pack of beer, and easier for young people to buy. In 2015, 17 percent of local high school seniors had “tried an opiate.”
After earning her master’s degree in home economics from Simmons College in Boston in 1952, Mae moved to Lenox where she began her 22-year career as a home economics teacher, retiring from the Lenox School District in 1974.
The entire area around Lake Mansfield is a delicate ecosystem surrounded by homes on a hill from which storm water and sediment run into the lake. Simply repaving the road won’t solve any of this, and town officials say such a measure will simply increase car speeds.
Alice retired as vice president in the mortgage department of the Great Barrington Savings, the first female to hold a senior position in the 100-year history of the bank.
