WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — North County's first marijuana retailer plans to open Wednesday, April 24, at 10 a.m.
Silver Therapeutics announced its opening date Sunday in an email to those on its mailing list.
"Thank you to everyone who has helped us get to this moment," the email read. "We can not express enough how excited we are to open our doors this week."
Earlier this month, the pot purveyor announced that it had received its final license from the commonwealth's Cannabis Control Commission.
Silver Therapeutics in 2017 sought and ultimately received signoff from the Select Board on a "letter of non-opposition" for a medical marijuana dispensary. At the time, Silver principal Joshua Silver of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., made it clear that the business's goal was to take advantage of the November 2016 passage of Massachusetts' Question 4, which decriminalized marijuana.
Wednesday's planned opening will just be for recreational marijuana.
In February, Silver said his business is still working to bring online a cultivation site in Orange.
"The medical license is vertically integrated," Silver said. "I think 80 percent of your inventory for medical has to be grown yourself. There is some room for third-party sourcing.
"Initially we'll open [the Williamstown store] strictly as adult use because our processing center is not online yet. We're hoping that will online in a year."
According to its website, Silver Therapeutics plans to open dispensaries in Orange and Greenfield as well.
Berkshire County's first retail marijuana location, Great Barrington's Theory Wellness, opened earlier this year to huge crowds.
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Williamstown Planners OK Preliminary Habitat Plan
By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board on Tuesday agreed in principle to most of the waivers sought by Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity to build five homes on a Summer Street parcel.
But the planners strongly encouraged the non-profit to continue discussions with neighbors to the would-be subdivision to resolve those residents' concerns about the plan.
The developer and the landowner, the town's Affordable Housing Trust, were before the board for the second time seeking an OK for the preliminary subdivision plan. The goal of the preliminary approval process is to allow developers to have a dialogue with the board and stakeholders to identify issues that may come up if and when NBHFH brings a formal subdivision proposal back to the Planning Board.
Habitat has identified 11 potential waivers from the town's subdivision bylaw that it would need to build five single-family homes and a short access road from Summer Street to the new quarter-acre lots on the 1.75-acre lot the trust purchased in 2015.
Most of the waivers were received positively by the planners in a series of non-binding votes.
One, a request for relief from the requirement for granite or concrete monuments at street intersections, was rejected outright on the advice of the town's public works directors.
Another, a request to use open drainage to manage stormwater, received what amounted to a conditional approval by the board. The planners noted DPW Director Craig Clough's comment that while open drainage, per se, is not an issue for his department, he advised that said rain gardens not be included in the right of way, which would transfer ownership and maintenance of said gardens to the town.
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