Retail pot storefront gets special permit to open on Mountain Street East
The Planning Board Wednesday granted a special permit for a retail marijuana storefront on Mountain Street East.
The board unanimously approved the special permit for Munro Associates LLC at 15-17 Mountain Street East, at the corner of Burncoat Street in the city s Summit neighborhood.
The establishment will be Munro s second local storefront; the company recently opened The Vault in Webster.
Joshua Lee Smith, a lawyer with the Bowditch & Dewey firm in Worcester representing Munro on the application, said the operation plans to have a total of 45 employees, with 10 to 13 employees on shift at any point in time. The business requires seven parking spaces, but the small strip mall where the marijuana retailer will be located has 28 overall spaces.
Then & Now: Brittan Square Fire Barn, Burncoat Street, Worcester
Some called it the fire barn, a casual term that faded with the memory of horse-drawn fire equipment.
The original fire house at 19 Burncoat St. in Worcester, built in 1893 to serve the Lincoln and Burncoat streets section of the city, was mostly called the Adams Square Fire House in the early days.
And then, for reasons not clear, there was a name change: The area became Brittan Square, as it remains known.
The Brittan Square Fire Station OK, barn, for our nostalgic readers remained in service through the mid-1960s. It was rundown, having not seen significant upgrades since its horse-drawn beginnings.
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A man wanted in connection to a shooting at a Connecticut casino has been apprehended by police and US Marshals.
On Thursday, Jan. 7, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, as well as members of the police department in Worcester, Massachusetts, arrested Barry Jump, age 29, of Worcester, , in connection with a shooting, about an hour’s drive away, at Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut, police said.
Law enforcement did not specify the event that led to Jumpp’s arrest, but on Saturday, Dec. 19, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Police said they were investigating an incident involving a firearm near the Cedar Hotel concourse, according to News8. No injuries were reported. No other news about firearms at the casino has come forward recently.
Worcester police, US Marshals arrest 2 men including Barry Jumpp, a 29-year-old wanted in connection with a shooting at Foxwoods Casino
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In a collaborative effort between police in Worcester and the United States Marshals, authorities located and arrested a 29-year-old man on Thursday who was wanted in connection with a shooting that occurred at Foxwoods Casino.
Barry Jumpp, of Worcester, was arrested just after noon Thursday and charged with being a fugitive from justice on a court warrant, carrying a firearm without a license and receiving stolen property over $1,200.
Police didn’t provide further information into the incident at Foxwoods that led to Jumpp’s arrest.
The family of a Worcester man who was killed in a car crash this summer is offering a $5,000 cash reward to anyone who has information that leads to the arrest of the person who caused the deadly crash.On June 26, 50-year-old Hamad Jaber was driving his daughter, Serena, home after she finished work at the family s restaurant Bay State Shawarma & Grill when their 2014 Jeep Wrangler fell from the Interstate 190 overpass onto Interstate 290 below.Investigators believe Jaber was taking the Burncoat Street ramp from I-290 east to I-190 north when his Jeep went over the sidewall on the left lane side of the overpass and fell onto the travel lanes of I-290 east.The Massachusetts State Police said Jaber was pronounced dead at the scene. He leaves me behind with three young children, said the victim s widow, Rabab Jaber.Two days after the deadly crash, Serena Jaber told NewsCenter 5 that another vehicle definitely caused the crash that killed her father. A beige/tan-colored car hit