Judge Denies Emergency Delay of 'Impact Fee' Payments from Haverhill's Stem Cannabis Store
By WHAV Staff | 5 hours ago Stem's Caroline Pineau consults with Attorney Thomas MacMillan during a City Council meeting in 2019. (WHAV News file photograph.) A downtown Haverhill cannabis retailer must make its first “impact fee” payment to the city tomorrow after a Superior Court judge denied a request for an emergency delay. Stem, 124 Washington St., had argued it would suffer “irreparable harm” while waiting for a hearing on its larger case—that the city must give it a detailed accounting of any impacts and related costs. Judge James F. Lang said if Stem were to later win its c...