Cannabis goes on sale; Midd store cashing in

Business was blooming this past weekend at downtown Middlebury’s FLŌRA, a fully licensed and permitted cannabis retail shop that opened to brisk traffic as Vermont’s cannabis retail law took effect on Oct. 1. As of that date FLŌRA was only one of three such fully licensed and permitted ventures. 

“I remember watching (Mendy’s) close and inside of me a voice was saying, ‘I have to fill that space,’” Lisa Phelps recalled during a recent interview.

While many of the students filling Middlebury College dining halls last winter were discussing looming final exams or details of their trips home for winter break, Sam Segal and Brett Perlmutter were working out the details of a company they hoped would c … (read more)

Another program is launching to help Vermont businesses that are short on operating funds because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

A new board member, promotions and a new hire were recently announced by the National Bank of Middlebury.

State Director Linda Rossi announced that Sarah Kearns of Middlebury has been selected as the 2022 State Star of the Vermont Small Business Development Center.

The Addison County Economic Development Corp. recently helped two Bristol businesses to secure financing for commercial development projects.

Emeraldrose Grows owner Greg Newman is planning to add a new kind of flower to his organic gardening shop this fall: recreational cannabis.

The Ferrisburgh selectboard has scheduled a public hearing on proposed new zoning laws that would govern where sellers, growers and manufacturers of cannabis could work within town limits.

Downtown Middlebury will soon boast three new businesses offering products ranging from women’s clothing to wine, thanks to a new round of startup grants offered through the Kick Start program.

The Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN) has just hired a manager for a new “food hub” on Middlebury’s Exchange Street that next month will begin receiving a variety of wares from area food producers and help get them to markets both near and far … (read more)

Satori last year purchased the former Conner Homes facility on Route 7 South in Middlebury and intends to turn it into a state-of-the-art cannabis grow and processing facility.

Vermont Wellness Medicine and Integrative Oncology recently welcomed Anemone Fresh, ND, MSOM, LAc, to the Middlebury practice.

Middlebury voters’ decision last year to open the town’s doors to recreational cannabis ventures has led to two such applications being filed this month.

With Ferrisburgh residents in March backing legal retail cannabis sales in their town and Vermont law allowing that activity to begin in October, the Ferrisburgh selectboard on Tuesday began considering the town’s permitting process.