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Eight months ago, a Connecticut company won a special permit to grow cannabis indoors in Becket, after a year of stop-and-start review. But the weed farm remains sidelined, pending an
A large-scale Becket cannabis farm proposed more than a year ago — then vigorously tracked and opposed by neighbors — won a long-sought special permit Thursday.
Becket’s Planning Board voted Wednesday to close a public hearing on a controversial cannabis farm, rejecting an attorney’s call for the panel to continue to accept comment.
As a long public hearing drew to a close in Becket, the co-owner of property that would be leased for a cannabis farm said she's tired of hearing opponents speak
When he was interviewing in 2015 for a job with Pittsfieldâs Building Maintenance Department, James Esoldi learned, to his delight, that he would be able to commute to work in a city-owned vehicle. That long had been city policy, because as a project supervisor, Esoldi could get called to duty at any time from his home in North Adams. It saved Esoldi about $40 a week in commuting costs. In fact, being able to use the pickup truck played into his decision to take the job. When the city abruptly halted Esoldiâs use of the pickup to commute in fall 2019, during a pitched mayoral electi...