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Puff, Puff, Pass On The Shirts: Western Mass Strip Club Wants To Convert To Topless Dispensary Puff, Puff, Pass On The Shirts: Western Mass Strip Club Wants To Convert To Topless Dispensary
Puff, Puff, Pass On The Shirts: Western Mass Strip Club Wants To Convert To Topless Dispensary The owners of a Franklin County strip club say they have big plans for the site once they reopen. Instead of nude dancers and beer, they want to have topless saleswomen and marijuana.  Nicholas Spagnola, a co-owner of Club Castaway in Whately, spoke with the town's selectboard earlier this month to unveil his revolutionary plan to carve out a "niche" in the fast-growing cannabis retail space.  “Our goal would be to operate a topless dispensary and to remove nude dancing and alcohol from the license,” Spagnola said.  Spagnola and his business partner Julius Sokol bought …

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by Josh Lanier
Police & Fire
Special-Needs/Weed CEO Is Accused Of Stealing $50,000 From Taxpayers Special-Needs/Weed CEO Is Accused Of Stealing $50,000 From Taxpayers
Special-Needs/Weed CEO Is Accused Of Stealing $50,000 From Taxpayers A marijuana entrepreneur who owns a Connecticut vocational center for people with special needs is facing fraud charges. Karen Gaston, 39, of East Granby, was charged in Connecticut on Tuesday, Sept. 22 with larceny in the first degree by defrauding a public community, health insurance fraud, and criminal attempt to commit larceny in the first degree by defrauding a public community, according to Connecticut’s Division of Criminal Justice. Gaston is the owner of Elegant Clinical Corporation in East Windsor, a nonprofit that seeks to provide vocational education to people with special needs…

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by Kristin Palpini
Business
5 Weed Companies Seek To Open In 1 Small Central Mass Town 5 Weed Companies Seek To Open In 1 Small Central Mass Town
5 Weed Companies Seek To Open In 1 Small Central Mass Town A cannabis cultivator is holding a public information meeting in Clinton after making a major Main Street purchase. Crabgrass LLC, a wholesale cannabis grower, is holding a public meeting Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 1 p.m. The session will be held at Crabgrass’s new space at 830-894 Main St. Owners will outline plans for the wholesale retailer and answer people’s questions, said managing owner Lynne McCarren. Brian McCarren is also a co-owner. But who will be the first to open a pot shop or growing facility in Clinton? There are at least five companies striving to open in town. The Tuesday hea…

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by Kristin Palpini
Business
Pot City: Western Mass Community Has More Marijuana Licenses Than Anywhere Else In State Pot City: Western Mass Community Has More Marijuana Licenses Than Anywhere Else In State
Pot City: Western Mass Community Has More Marijuana Licenses Than Anywhere Else In State City efforts to court the burgeoning marijuana industry appear to have worked for Holyoke; the city has more marijuana establishment licenses than anywhere else in the state. Holyoke has completed 40 weed business applications, according to a Boston Business Journal analysis. A total of 841 marijuana business license applications have been submitted to the Cannabis Control Commission from 2016, when marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, through July 9. The first cannabis retailer in Massachusetts opened in November 2018. Not all of the marijuana industry businesses with applications from…

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by Kristin Palpini