CANCELED: North Adams Cannabis Applicant Holding Community Meeting Friday

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Update April 27: EWP LLC canceled its scheduled community meeting on Friday after determining that 420 Curran Highway was not suitable for its, largely because of its proximity to south end of Noel Field Athletic Complex. The company's principals say they are looking at other options for use as a cultivation facility.
 
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A second marijuana establishment is seeking to put down roots in the city. 
 
EWP LLC is looking to establish a cultivation location at 420 Curran Highway. The company is holding a community meeting on Friday, April 27, at noon in the Berkshire Room at the Holiday Inn on Main Street. 
 
Community meetings are required by state law for establishments seeking to set up dispensaries, cultivation sites, processing or laboratory testing. The city recently passed a cannabis ordinance setting out where such establishments could be located in the city. 
 
The location, 420 Curran Highway, was originally K-K Home Mart and later the home of the Registry of Motor Vehicles and the Brien Center's adult day program. The building has been largely empty of late with the exception of a vape store that moved in last year. 
 
The state began accepting applications for retail establishments of marijuana on April 1 and is expected to be approving licenses beginning in July. Another company, Valley Green Grow, is eyeing a dispensary and cultivation site in the city's south end. 
 
The community meeting is open to the public and representatives of EWP LLC will be available to present their plans and answer questions. 

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Clarksburg Sees Race for Select Board Seat

CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The town will see a three-way race for a seat on the Select Board in May. 
 
Colton Andrews, Seth Alexander and Bryana Malloy returned papers by Wednesday's deadline to run for the three-year term vacated by Jeffrey Levanos. 
 
Andrews ran unsuccessfully for School Committee and is former chairman of the North Adams Housing Authority, on which he was a union representative. He is also president of the Pioneer Valley Building Trades Council.
 
Malloy and Alexander are both newcomers to campaigning. Malloy is manager of industrial relations for the Berkshire Workforce Board and Alexander is a resident of Gates Avenue. 
 
Alexander also returned papers for several other offices, including School Committee, moderator, library trustee and the five-year seat on the Planning Board. He took out papers for War Memorial trustee and tree warden but did not return them and withdrew a run for Board of Health. 
 
He will face off in the three-year School Committee seat against incumbent Cynthia Brule, who is running for her third term, and fellow newcomer Bonnie Cunningham for library trustee. 
 
Incumbent Ronald Boucher took out papers for a one-year term as moderator but did not return them. He was appointed by affirmation in 2021 when no won ran and accepted the post again last year as a write-in.
 
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