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Massachusetts real estate transactions for Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties Feb. 18, 2024 edition

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Massachusetts real estate transactions for Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties Feb. 18, 2024 edition

Agawam

Bretta Construction LLC, to Benjamin Reynolds, 12 Damato Way, $690,000.

Doreen J. Merola to William D. Corbin and Susan L. Corbin, 170 Mallard Circle, $300,000.

Plata O Plomo Inc., to Michael Edward Trippodo, 44 Colonial Ave., $315,000.

Sani Realty LLC, to 444 Shoemaker MA LLC, 444 Shoemaker Lane, $1,450,000.

Tree House S LLC, to XPB LLC, Main Street, $145,000.

Amherst

Joseph Kennedy to APN Properties LLC, 95 East Pleasant St., and 95 E. Pleasant St., $100.

Alfred J. Albano Jr., commissioner, Elisabeth Howard and Catherine Nicholas to Historic Renovations & Rental Properties LTD., 68 McClellan St., $335,000.

Stanley L. Warner and Signia R. Warner to Philip B. Torrey and Nancy G. Torrey, 31 Middle St., $600,000.

Jeffrey P. Roth-Howe, trustee, and Jeffrey P. Roth-Howe Revocable Trust to Evan Paul Roth-Howe and Maria Alejandra Alcaraz Sainz, 74 Overlook Drive, $300,000.

Pelham Road Partners LLC, to Yeon Soon Kim, 370 Pelham Road, $415,000.

Belchertown

Fay M. Flanary to Daniel E. Chase and Tracy Marton, 27 Lloyd Ave., $349,000.

Vera M. Sherman, trustee, Vera M. Sherman Revocable Trust and John Sherman to Colin MacNeil, Ruth MacNeil and Ruth Stiles MacNeil, 161 Federal St., $400,000.

Joseph A.L. Marino and Laurie E. Lentz-Marino to Joshua J. Alway, 94 Canal Drive, $450,000.

Robert H. Adair to DPR Legacy Enterprises LLC, 15 Main St., $320,000.

Gwendolyn Daguiar to Gwendolyn R. Daguiar, trustee, Grimm Addams Supplemental Needs Trust and Grace Linda Ann Daguiar Supplemental Needs Trust, 340 Amherst Road, $100.

Brimfield

Scott C. Aikey and Debra A. Aikey to Ja Property Group LLC, 1494 Dunhamtown-Brimfield Road, $320,000.

Chicopee

Alan Wishart Jr., representative, and Alan P. Wishart, estate, to Anna Marquez and Dennis Sanders, 48 Cambridge St., $233,000.

Slosek Real Estate Holdings LLC, to Privilne Real Estate LLC, 799 Front St., $159,300.

Carlos Pacheco Rubert to Naisha Hernandez, 553 Chicopee St., $269,000.

Dean J. Delamarter and Shirley Ann Delamarter to Ahmed Aljanabi, 19 Dresser Ave., $185,000.

DGL Properties LLC, to Torrey Santini and Maegan Santini, 34 Bromont St., $430,000.

Janet D. Derderian to Angel Matos Rodriguez, 343 Chicopee St., Unit 12, $165,000.

John R. Winters, Kelly A. Saltmarsh and Kathleen C. Winters to Karen Lynn Leblanc and John Ferrell, 56 Fredette St., Unit I-9, $176,000.

Lisa M. Fournier to Chapeaurouge Investments LLC, 46 Harvard St., $300,000.

Michael J. Molinari, Anne K. Molinari, Paul V. Boutot and Donna M. Boutot to Donna M. Boutot and Paul V. Boutot, 33 Belcher St., $50,000.

Nolava LLC, to Nicholas D. Franck, 35 Moore St., $370,000.

Robert S. Talbot, representative, and Glen Blanchard, estate, to Arthur Benoit III, 110 Haven Ave., $245,000.

Colrain

Darlene M. King, trustee of the Walker Investment Trust, to Paul Gulla, 100 Main Road, “aka” Route 112, $30,000.

Cummington

Lyle Hazel and Lyle M. Hazel to Lyle Hazel, trustee, Janeen Romie, trustee, and Lyle Hazel Family Revocable Trust, 47 Main St., $100.

East Longmeadow

Lachenauer LLC, to Toni Brandofino, 382 Porter Road, $345,000.

Mark C. Czupryna and Denise D. Czupryna to Christian T. Dancy and Chelsea L. Dancy, 236 Parker St., $380,000.

Samantha F. Taha and Morgan L. Sibley to Richard W. Santasiere II, 30 Bayne St., $220,000.

William A. Brown and David P. Brown to Elizabeth Vilkhovoy and David Vilkhovoy, 61 Devonshire Terrace, $169,000.

Easthampton

Krupalu LLC, to Michelle A. Gould, 78 Pleasant St., $530,000.

Alexander W. Kwolek and Betty-Ann Kwolek to Lisa A. Darragh, 4 East Green St., $335,000.

Walter L. Hawrylow to Christopher L. Hawrylow, 4 Division Street W., $100.

Michaela A. Tally to Anne Canfield, 30 Pine St., $282,000.

Erich L. Janes, Marilyn G. Janes and Erika J. Saracino, attorney-in-fact, to Erich L. Janes, 4 Gross Lane, $100.

Erving

Lynda Richardson and Michael J. Richardson to Kenneth Allen Rounds, 5 North St., $247,000.

Granby

Linda A. Kapinos to Mack M. Son and Bopha T. Son, 140 Pleasant St., $350,000.

Greenfield

Carter J. Robertson and Justina Smith to Justina Smith, 167 Wells St., $45,000.

Matthew Buttolph Jackson, trustee of the Katherine Buttolph Revocable Trust, to Michael J. Marotto and Sarah Marotto, 100 Silver S., $385,000.

Damon Blake to Mark Wightman, 200 Wisdom Way, $170,000.

Charles Frieders, personal representative of the Estate of Ronald Bosch, “aka” Ronald V. Bosch, “aka” Ronald Vander Bosch, and Charles Frieders and Joyce Bosch Frieders, trustees of the Ronald V. Bosch Revocable Trust, to Spencer Telega, 41 Norwood St., $286,500.

Wicked Deals LLC, to Congamond Management LLC, 231 Hope St., Lot 2, $40,000.

Wicked Deals LLC, to Congamond Management LLC, 231 Hope St., Lot 1, $120,000.

Wicked Deals LLC, to Congamond Management LLC, 231 Hope St., Lot 3, $40,000.

Hampden

Bedrock Financial LLC, trustee, and Cumberland Blues Realty Trust, trustee of, to Leslie P. Addicks and Thomas P. Addicks, 149 Chapin Road, $743,000.

Hatfield

Susan E. Lynes, Susan E. Lynes, trustee, Susan E. Bartlett, trustee, and Susan E. Bartlett Lynes Trust to Maxwell C. Bartlett, 323 West St., $300,000.

Holyoke

Alfred Estabrook to Brittany Wajda and David Wajda, 24 Bayberry Drive, $325,000.

Alycar Investments LLC, to Jennit Rojas Diaz and Ronald L. Cruz Fuentes, 44-46 Gilman St., $361,000.

Brittany L. Petersen to Kenneth A. Lauzier, Kenneth Lauzier, Julia M. Lauzier and Julia Lauzier, 133 North Pleasant St., $420,000.

David F. Nitkiewicz and Hideliza Nitkiewicz to Luz Diaz-Feliciano, 1470 Northampton St., $335,000.

David Schirch, Kimberly Frisino, Nicole Frisino and Francis E. Frisino, estate, to Abimael Claudio, 538 Hampden St., $89,000.

Deepon Realty LLC, to April L. Rivera, 60 Beech St., $206,000.

Jeannette R. Rivard, Ruth Rivard and Jeannette R. Nadeau to Stephanie Szklarz and Angela Marie Figueroa, 37 Franks Drive, $240,000.

Limited Partnership Pearson-Valley Development Co., and Norman Fine to Remote Opportunities LLC, 4 North Bridge St., $1,280,400.

Northern Flooring & Remodeling LLC, to Adrian Cruz, 36-38 Gates St., $435,000.

Peloquin Real Estate One LLC, to TKJM LLC, 286-288 Pine St., $1,950,000.

Stephen C. Konstantinidis, Ellen L. Konstantinidis and Ellen L. Little to Mohammad A. Dib, 88 Lynch Drive, $280,000.

Peloquin Real Estate Two LLC, to PCJM LLC, 38 Clinton Ave., 56 Clinton Ave., 77-79 Elm St., 244 Walnut St., 223 Suffolk St., 101 Pine St., and 184-186 Lyman St., $1,850,000.

Huntington

Ramanjanappa Ravikumar and Subasri Dorairaj to Rt 20 LLC, Russell Road, $350,000.

Leverett

Barbara J. Raymond to Frederic P. Hartwell and Marie Hartwell-Walker, 295 Shutesbury Road, $118,000.

Longmeadow

Trevor H. Agnitti and Angelica Agnitti to Donald R. Muller and Kylie Elizabeth Muller, 192 Converse St., $372,000.

Ludlow

Angela S. Berkeley and Angela S. Nurek to Jessica Lynn Walsh, 31 Cady St., $289,000.

Joanne M. Bell, representative, Robert C. Blais, representative, Robert Armand Blais, estate, and Robert A. Blais, estate, to Richard Rustic, trustee, and Rustic Family Trust, trustee of, 200 Poole St., $250,000.

Jose T. Martins and Susan Dias Martins to Steven A. Crespo, Cislak Drive, Lot 38, $221,000.

Tracey A. Ware and Thomas Ware to David Nitkiewicz, 57 Grimard St., $285,000.

Montague

113 Avenue A LLC, to Avenue A Group LLC, 113-115 Avenue A, $600,000.

U.S. Bank NA, trustee of MEB Loan Trust IV, to Jason Michael Secord, 13 Franklin St., $70,000.

Ann Engley and April Engley to EDS Enterprises LLC, 7 Avenue C, $189,900.

AGT Homes LLC, to Diana L. Tobin and Robert J. Tobin, 257 Wendell Road, $540,000.

New Salem

Kathleen P. Starkey to Adam B. Brougham and Marcy A. Brougham, West Street, $80,000.

Northampton

Robert P. Abuza, trustee, Rebecca R. Abuza, trustee, Katharine J. Waggoner, trustee, and Mardi J. Abuza Living Trust to Robert P. Abuza, trustee, Rebecca R. Abuza, trustee, Katharine J. Waggoner, trustee, Mardi J. Abuza Family Trust and Mardi J. Abuza Marital Trust, 226 Chestnut St., $100.

Lisa Chodos to Lisa Chodos and Leigh Chodos, 63 Sheffield Lane, $100.

Hans D. Michaud to JJK Investments LLC, 16 Fairfield Ave., $500,000.

Theodore W. Schultz to Melissa Islam and Ashequl Islam, 80 Damon Road, $175,000.

John Nicolaou to Richard H. Watling, Riverbank Road, $75,000.

Edward R. Decker, Delores Belmore, personal representative, and Marylou Decker, estate, to Elaine N. Fitzgerald, 9 Cross Path Road, $320,000.

Linda B. Putnam to Amy B. Dickinson, 24 Perkins Ave., $325,000.

Joseph D. Squires and Michelle l. Squires to Shawn S. Ryder and Shannon M. Shaw, 294 Bridge St., $400,000.

Karen Spindel to Rachel M. Prehodka-Spindel and Spindel Family Revocable Trust, 61 South St., $100.

Alice L. Sadlowski and Alice L. Sias to Tracy J. Lisewski, trustee, and 14 Acrebrook Drive Real Estate Trust, 14 Acrebrook Drive, $100.

Rebecca H. Olander, Rebecca F. Hart and Jonathan T. Olander to Rebecca H. Olander, trustee, Jonathan T. Olander, trustee, and Rebecca H. Olander Trust, 96 Chestnut St., $100.

Silvia Araneda Burwell, trustee, and Silvia Araneda Burwell Revocable Trust to Silvia Araneda Burwell, 35 New South St., $100.

Silvia Araneda Burwell to Maria Teresa Hart, trustee, and Burwell Irrevocable Trust, 35 New South St., $100.

Lindsay Rockwell to Lindsay Rockwell and Ami Ladd, 107 Vernon St., $100.

Northfield

Erin Jaworski, Julian Jaworski and Jane H. Lyle-Jaworski, individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Walter C. Jaworski, to Charles E. Fisher, Lyman Road, $45,000.

MW&MW Realty LLC, to Raquel L. Chlosta and Joshua Willis, 21 Meadow St., $370,000.

Orange

Mary Chaplin to Schwowens Properties LLC, 82 Mechanic St., $120,000.

Donna E. Estabrooks, Loretta A. Estabrooks, Philip R. Estabrooks and Diane L. Tilden to James B. Berry and Laura J. Berry, 63 Main St., $901,000.

Palmer

Abaigeal M. Duda to B & B Realty Partners LLC, 3205 Main St., $305,000.

Bryan Damas and Barbara Damas to Coby Piardi and Natalie St. George, 249 Ware St., $330,000.

Clayton J. Lizak, trustee, and John W. Lizak Revocable Indenture of Trust of, trustee of, to Andrew Shevchenko and Nikole Shevchenko, Old Warren Road, Lot 27-8, $100,000.

Lorraine D. Spelko, representative, and Frank W. Spelko, estate, to Jennifer W. Putney and John F. Putney II, 27 Country Lane, $675,000.

Plainfield

Amanda Grosmann Rieder, trustee, Daniel Grossman, trustee, Iris Bikel, trustee, and Richard Grossman Irrevocable Trust to Kivah P. Singh and Joshua C. Nordin, Lower Liberty Street, $52,500.

Rowe

Brian C. McKay and David J. McKay to Sheri A. Kelly and Katie E. McKay, 50 Pond Road, $50,000.

Russell

Ramanjanappa Ravikumar and Subasri Dorairaj to Rt 20 LLC, 0 Huntington Road, $350,000.

Shelburne

Deborah K. McCutchen, personal representative of the Estate of Leighton Mills McCutchen,Jr., and as trustee of the Martha J. McCutchen Credit Shelter Testamentary Trust, and as trustee of the Martha J. McCutchen Martial Testamentary Trust, “aka” the Martha J. McCutchen Marital Testamentary Trust, to Michel A. Clapham and Grace Anne Kennerly, 12 Main St., $450,000.

Shutesbury

Edward M. Suter and Marialis J. Suter, individually and as trustees of the Suter Family Revocable Trust, to Allen H. Pease Jr., and Lesley Pease, 94 Pratt Corner Road, $487,500.

South Hadley

Marcus Grothues to Kayla Langevin, 2 Maple St., $269,000.

Amy Jamrog and Kimberly Cook to Thomas J. Desrochers, 22 Ridge Road, $345,000.

Skinner Woods LLC, to Robert Salem and Marlene Salem, 3 Skinnerwoods Way, $559,900.

Kevin Haczynski to Choquette Capital Properties LLC, 266 North Main St., $415,000.

Southampton

Philip Corbeil to Charlene M. Lustenberger Corbeil, 18 Noreen Drive, $300,000.

Southwick

Dawn A. Turgeon, representative, and William K. Sanders, estate, to Eduard Tsikhotskiy and Maryna Tsikhotskiy, 11 Crescent Circle, $371,000.

Kim A. Prevost, representative, Kim Ann Prevost, representative, Patricia A. Prevost, estate, and Patricia Ann Prevost, estate, to Natalie A. Gaudino, 11 Fernwood Road, $222,000.

Randy S. Rindels and Lori Jean Rindels to Kevin P. Mahoney and Kathleen M. Mahoney, 13 Lauren Lane, $750,000.

V F Realty Co. LLC, to FMM Southwick LLC, 561 College Highway, $900,000.

Springfield

374 Allen Street LLC, to Sole Room LLC, 374-380 Allen St., $260,000.

Athime Continual Wealth LLC, to Welhington S. Dasilva, 49 Prospect St., $365,000.

Awilda Vazquez to James Paul Martin Jr., and Michelle Ruth Derosa, 5 Lavender Lane, $290,000.

Campagnari Construction LLC, to Anthony George Wallace, 64 Burghardt St., $235,000.

Cheryl C. Clapprood to Michael Goncalves, 117 Nassau Drive, $196,000.

Christal J. Vaz and Rishawn Harris to Naomie C. Delva, 3 Hillside Place, $300,000.

Christopher Edmunds to Sean Roth and Katie Roth, 63 Welland Road, $346,000.

David Kachinski and William Raleigh to Alonzo Smith and Denise Lewis, 46-48 Mooreland St., $325,000.

Dylan J. Sheehan, Nora A. Sheehan and Nora A. Snyder to Cailyn Pereira, 150 Louis Road, $273,000.

U S A Housing & Urban Development to Jose Rivera-Portillo, 22-24 Terrence St., $250,000.

Home LLC, to Mass Rentals LLC, 466 Liberty St., $320,000.

James M. Montana, representative, William Gregory Montana, estate, and William G. Montana, estate, to Dominic Kirchner II, trustee, and Cioccolate Realty Trust, trustee of, 14 Dorchester St., $54,255.

Jeffrey G. Cabana to Angel Sunuwar and Sarita Bhattaral, 63 Rencelau St., $300,000.

John H. Meredith to Jose A. Cruz Rivera, 48 Eton St., $248,000.

John J. Damato to Johnny Franco Paredes, 18 Fairmont St., $430,000.

Juan C. Rodriguez and Sharon M. Rodriguez to Javier Pardave and Dayana Pardave, 193 Corona St., $300,000.

Kennedy Acquisitions LLC, to Wendy Gilman, 305 Denver St., $295,000.

KHL Group LLC, to Mheg Inc., 751-755 Liberty St., $180,000.

80 Congress Street Properties LLC, to Aldaine Murray, 39 Milton St., $300,000.

Luis Infante, Luis C. Infante Perez and Elizabeth Aguilera De Infante to Jose R. Brizuela and Jose Roberto Brizuela, 194-196 Massachusetts Ave., $335,000.

Luis Ventura to Angelina Marte Pena, 108 School St., $265,000.

Marcia L. Doyley and Edger Dunkelly to Flanders Homebuyers LLC, and Cream City Homebuyers LLC, 54 Princeton St., $95,000.

Michael J. Molinari and Paul V. Boutot to Phoenix St. LLC, 27 Phoenix St., $500,000.

Nelly Otero and Nelly Collazo to Hiram Maldonado Rolon and Emely F. Martinez Marrero, 19 Granville St., $250,000.

New Canaan Properties LLC, to Consultant LLC, Pioneer Valleys Event Catering and Donovan Allen, 442 Liberty St., $260,000.

Patricia Haynes Nnaji to Luis Eduardo Perez, 54 Dawes St., $200,000.

Patriot Living Properties LLC, to A Plus Enterprises Inc., 0 W S Chilson St., $40,000.

Richard L. Marino, Ronald J. Marino and Eileen Marino to James J. Jozokos Jr., and Mary Jane Flynn, 17-19 Alsace St., $335,000.

Robert J. Cotton and Sylvia Cotton to Dnepro Properties LLC, 95 Windemere St., $240,000.

Ronnie T. Salas to Jorge Rosa, 515 Berkshire Ave., $405,000.

Rose D. Roman and Noel Vazquez Martinez to Rose Mirleine Janvier, 47 Laurel St., $289,900.

Round Two LLC, to Hector Suarez, 85 Farnsworth St., $243,000.

Sharon R. Raverta, representative, and Roy Fanti, estate, to Cil Realty of Massachusetts Inc., 171 Atwater Road, $475,000.

Springfield Gardens 69 LP, and Schweb Partners – Springfield LLC, to Lachenauer LLC, 0 WS Fort Pleasant Ave., $200,000.

Steven E. Zeimbekakis and George Zeimbekakis to Susan Agostine, 775 White St., $310,000.

Suzanne Duguay to Philip J. Beaulieu, 286 Nassau Drive, Unit 286B, $187,900.

Ware

Ryan E. Mulligan, personal representative, and Jeanne C. Mulligan, estate, to Megan Charter, 210 Belchertown Road, $252,500.

West Springfield

Bent Tree Development LLC, to Peter J. Godbout, 21-23 Piper Road, $449,900.

Kerry L. Lafromboise to Congamond Management LLC, 29-31 Worthen St., $200,000.

Lok B. Bhattarai to Kiritkumar I. Patel and Sobhna Patel, 13 Alderbrook Lane, $352,000.

Pavel Duducal and Tatyana Duducal to Tila Gurung and Sujit Gurung, 38 Humphrey Lane, $396,000.

Samuel P. Orlando and Suzanne U. Orlando to Matthew J. Sady and Amy E. Sady, 115 Peachstone Glen, $660,000.

Westfield

Aero Fastener Realty LLC, to Conrad Z. Mayeski and Patricia L. Mayeski, 95-97 Highland Ave., $425,000.

Centura Bay LLC, to Shakira B. Valentin, 24 Hampden St, $220,000.

Conrad Z Mayeski and Patricia L Mayeski to Joshua D. Olin and Noel Olin, 82 Sackett Road, $396,500.

Daniel C. Alvord to Bradley R. Alvord and Shannon M. Boyden, 277 Hillside Road, $250,000.

Katie Schott, Katie L. Laplante, Edward Laplante, representative, and David E. Laplante, estate, to Andrew Schultz, 23 Walker Ave., $327,500.

Malia Homebuyers LLC, to Ashlyn Whitney Pentowski and Sarah M. Pentowski, 127 Northridge Road, $350,000.

Nathaniel Arkoette and Candace A. Francis to Candace A. Francis, 92 Crane Ave., $46,500.

Patricia Z. Johnson, Susan M. Zarichak and Carol Z. Glynn to Juan Rodriguez Reyes, 131 Westwood Drive, $330,000.

Stacey Albert Sorawat and Shaneekwa Shaunte Perkins to Mohamed Sadique Abdul Cader and Fathima Nusrath Sadique, 405 Montgomery Road, $460,000.

Westhampton

Robert J. Tobin and Diana L. Tobin to Miguel Estrada-Zavala and Brandon Miguel Estrada Rodriguez, 160 Laurel Hill Road, $589,000.

Whately

Nicole L. Pietraszkiewicz to David F. Harrington, Kathleen P. Harrington and Susan M. Lewis, 62 Long Plain Road, $605,000.

Brenden J. Monahan to Nicole L. Pietraszkiewicz, 282 Haydenville Road, $529,000.

Wilbraham

Gwen Christine Smith to Katherine Siegel and Justin McKenna, 155 Stony Hill Road, $349,900.

Matthew P. Metzler to Rattlesnake Holdings LLC, 92 Burleigh Road, $156,000.

Phyllis M. Emet to Tyler Emet, Gabriela Fonseca Marafuga and Eric Emet, 8 Mark Road, $275,000.

Robin Farrington Cook and David W. Cook to Elizabeth Af Simons and Jacob Michael Simons, 4 Ripley St., $410,000.

Williamsburg

Elizabeth M. Hartman to Paola V. Sherman, 33 Petticoat Hill Road, $237,000.

Worthington

Leann M. Mason to Lydia Irene Bussiere, Sherri Schon, Robert Thomas Scott, Iris Scott and Elizabeth McCormick, 584 Kinnebrook Road, $539,000.

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Massachusetts community colleges to launch apprenticeship degree programs – The Boston Globe

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Massachusetts community colleges to launch apprenticeship degree programs – The Boston Globe

Six Massachusetts community colleges are working together with employers across the state to start new apprenticeship degree programs that allow students to earn money in jobs related to their fields of study before graduation.

Several of these schools, including Bunker Hill Community College and MassBay Community College, are already enrolling students in these apprenticeship programs; North Shore Community College and Northern Essex Community College plan to launch programs this fall. There are currently about 50 students enrolled in the new degree programs; more than 200 are expected to enroll in the fall, according to the Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges.

“It’s going incredibly well, and proving to be very popular amongst students,” said Nate Mackinnon, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges. “This is honestly long overdue.”

William Heineman, president of North Shore Community College and chair of the Community College Council of Presidents, said the apprenticeship degrees are about earning money in the fields the students want to pursue while gaining skills and knowledge. The apprenticeships typically result in the students being offered full-time employment once their studies are completed.

The degree programs currently train licensed practical nurses, medical assistants, behavioral health technicians, and K-12 educators. The community colleges said additional programs will soon be offered in early education, cybersecurity, social work, medical laboratory technology, dental assisting, and occupations in allied health and nursing.

More than 30 employers are working with the colleges on the apprenticeships, including Mass General Brigham, Tufts Medicine, Reliant Medical Group, Wayside Youth and Family Support Network, as well as Salem and Chelsea public schools.

The initiative is funded by about $6 million in grants from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation and Accelerate the Future, which will go toward the startup costs associated with building the programs.

The Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges also received a grant to hire a statewide apprenticeship project manager to oversee the registered apprenticeships across the state’s 15 community colleges.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey often talks about the role apprenticeships should play in the state’s workforce strategy. In January she set a goal of registering 100,000 apprentices in the next decade in fields such as health care, technology, and advanced manufacturing.

“Apprenticeships are a powerful tool,” Healey posted on X in January. “They’re paid, hands-on training opportunities that lead to great careers.”

Hilary Burns can be reached at hilary.burns@globe.com. Follow her @Hilarysburns.

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Marijuana prices have been taking a nosedive. What comes next? – The Boston Globe

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Marijuana prices have been taking a nosedive. What comes next? – The Boston Globe

Grocery prices are rising. Rents are up. There is one product, though, that’s actually getting cheaper: marijuana.

The price of a gram of weed — the amount in a large joint — was down to just above $4, on average, in January, the latest continuation of a years-long nose-dive that has brought prices plummeting over 70 percent since pot stores first opened in Massachusetts in 2018. In those days, a gram cost more than $14.

“I’m taking advantage definitely,” Tori Wells, a Boston customer, said of current rock-bottom prices as she left downtown dispensary Pure Oasis one recent afternoon.

While consumers are happy, low prices have launched the industry into turmoil. It’s a far cry from the visions of wealth in cannabis that laid the foundation for many entrepreneurs to enter the industry and the state’s efforts at enriching Black and Latino communities that were targeted by the war on drugs.

“Profitability is tough to reach,” said Gabriel Vieira, CEO of Zyp Run, the first cannabis delivery service to open in Greater Boston in 2023. Delivery business licenses remain exclusive to equity operators, but many have struggled to find success. Just last month, Vieira’s company had to settle a state tax debt of more than $410,000 in order to continue operating this year, he said.

Marijuana growers and manufacturers said retail businesses are increasingly stiffing them on payments as money runs thin across the industry. There are signs that lawsuits, debts, and unpaid taxes are piling up, while business closures accelerate. Last fiscal year, 13 retail stores closed after either having their licenses revoked or choosing not to renew their licenses operations — more than in all previous years of legalization combined. And of the 71 cannabis business licenses of all kinds surrendered since recreational pot sales began, almost half were given up in the most recent fiscal year.

“Every state has a bottom, and we are in it,” said Derek Ross, CEO of Nova Farms, a company with six dispensaries across Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, and New Jersey, and hundreds of cultivation acres in the Northeast. “If we didn’t have opportunities in other states, we’d be struggling to keep our head above water.”

The industry’s dismal state is the result of an oversaturated market with too many marijuana plants being grown, said Commissioner Kimberly Roy, of the Cannabis Control Commission.

The commission is considering whether to freeze new cultivation licenses, with a public hearing on the matter likely soon. It’s a measure Roy supports.

“We need to hit the brakes,” Roy said. “Quite frankly, it’s overdue.”

By the end of 2025, the industry had the capacity to grow over 4.5 million square feet of cannabis plant canopy, up from 3.65 million in 2023.

Now cultivator competition is driving “razor-thin margins,” Roy added, and becoming a pain point for the entire industry.

Andrew Kazakoff, of Fathom Cannabis, a cultivator in West Boylston, said he supports a freeze on new growers.

“We need to take a halt,” Kazakoff said, adding: “Let the industry settle, work on itself, and come to equilibrium.”

As companies jockey for business there is also a “race to the bottom” on prices in the retail market that has led to “a lot of these businesses kind of cannibalizing each other,” said Ryan Dominguez, executive director of the Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition, a trade group. He added that a freeze could be a necessary step in righting the industry.

What’s happening in Massachusetts is something that other states have experienced, said Beau Kilmer, co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center.

Cannabis prices have fallen nationwide, particularly in early legalizing states such as Colorado, California, and Oregon, whose head start in infrastructure building has quickly turned to rampant oversupply. Oregon has imposed various pauses on its cannabis licensing dating back to 2018, with new license approvals of any kind currently banned.

“If you’re not going to limit the amount that’s produced, you should expect to see these price declines,” Kilmer said. Likewise, other New England states, including Connecticut and Maine, have retained higher prices than Massachusetts, the first pot stronghold on the East Coast and still its largest grower, since going legal.

The low prices mean cannabis businesses are mired in money problems, even as demand has continued to grow for their products. The number of cannabis sales that occurred last year increased by 8 percent over 2024, but revenues from those sales essentially plateaued, totaling around $1.65 billion for both 2024 and 2025.

Ross, the CEO of Nova Farms, said he cut 25 percent of his multi-state workforce in the last 18 months, as even diversified outfits have had to become “lean and mean,” to weather today’s market.

Two dozen companies, including four cultivators and 12 retailers, were in court-appointed receivership, the state’s legal alternative to bankruptcy, in January, according to commission data. More have been added since. Bankruptcy isn’t an option for cannabis companies as long as the drug remains federally illegal.

Designated as participating in “trafficking,” cannabis sellers also pay significantly more in federal taxes, often at rates of 60 to 80 percent, and are barred from making some regular deductible expenses.

Brian Keith, cofounder of Rooted In, said his Newbury Street dispensary, which opened in 2022, would be profitable if it weren’t for the heavy burden of the federal tax code, which places the most strain on retail stores.

Brian Keith, owner of Rooted In, is one of many small cannabis shops facing plummeting retail prices on cannabis and a compression that is making it difficult for local owners to stay afloat.
(David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)

A future VIP social consumption private room is set up downstairs at Rooted In.
(David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)

He filed his taxes on time this year but didn’t have the funds, he said, and now it may take over 12 months to settle over $170,000 in outstanding debts through a payment plan with the IRS.

“We’re seeing the same number of people walking through the door, but less revenue,” Keith said.

Keith is a member of the state’s social equity program, aimed at helping communities disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs build wealth.

His company has raised more than a quarter million dollars from communities of color in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan to fund its initial operations, he said, but the profits he planned to bring back to those communities haven’t materialized because of the prices plummeting.

Keith’s business is one of about 100 owned by people in the state’s two equity programs — about 15 percent of all open businesses in the state. Many of these entrepreneurs are struggling to make ends meet, the Globe has reported.

The CCC has approved a framework to allow the opening of marijuana lounges, giving exclusive access to equity entrepreneurs and smaller operations, though that rollout is just getting off the ground.

Many cannabis cultivators and manufacturers are seeing an escalating issue of unpaid debts.

Kazakoff, the grower in West Boylston, said half his orders last year were not paid on time by retailers, and a few not at all. That was barely a problem before 2025, he said.

“I grapple with the fact every single month of: Do I stay in business when I’m not getting paid by dispensaries?” he said. “Or how am I going to pay my employees?”

Currently, the CCC has no authority to police these business-to-business transactions, Commissioner Roy said, though she said it’s time for them to try and address it. Cannabis reform bills pending in the State House and Senate look to reshape cannabis regulations, including by mirroring alcohol enforcement, by restricting delinquent companies to having to pay their bills as soon as they receive products and publishing their names. Both versions of the legislation would also dissolve the current five-member cannabis commission, replacing it with a smaller three-member body.

Zyp Run cannabis delivery advertisements are glued on many trash cans around South Station.David L. Ryan/ Globe Staff

Cultivators such as Kris Foley, CEO of Berkshire Roots, have taken matters into their own hands, initiating legal action to retrieve funds he said he is owed from around a half dozen retailers.

“A lot of partners that we worked with early on, they were good payers,” but that changed suddenly, said Foley, who runs two Pittsfield cultivation facilities and a nearby dispensary, as well as another shop in East Boston. He hasn’t been paid on time for between $150,000 and $200,000 worth of product since 2024.

Nova Farms has been shorted payment for an estimated $4.5 million in product in Massachusetts in the past two years, far more than its other states, Ross said.

Steve Reilly, co-owner and head of government relations at INSA, a large cannabis operator in Massachusetts and four other states, worries that debt issues in the industry have driven away investment.

“Most of these companies are just struggling to keep the lights on and they’re doing what they can do,” he said. “But as they’re doing that, they’re dragging everybody else down.”

Bryan Hecht can be reached at bryan.hecht@globe.com. Follow him on Instagram @bhechtjournalism.

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