Business

Five Wareham businesses receive covid-relief grants

Senator Marc Pacheco has announced a new round of grant funding for small businesses impacted by covid-19. In Wareham, five businesses received grants: Kaleidoscope of Dance and Gymnastics received $70,000, E.L. Morse Lumber received $75,000, artist...

Restaurant to showcase Vietnamese cuisine

Golden Bamboo, an Asian fusion restaurant with a focus on Vietnamese cuisine, plans to open at 3103 Cranberry Highway in February. The restaurant received its license to operate at the Jan. 19 Board of Selectmen’s meeting. The menu, which will...
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Two Wareham businesses will receive $75,000 covid-19 small business grants

Dorothy Cox's Candies Inc. in Wareham and the Creative Development Child Center — also known as Sandy’s School — in East Wareham will each receive grants of $75,000 through the Covid-19 Small Business Grant Program. Sandy Boucher, who owns Sandy’s...

Lindsey’s closes for winter after employee’s covid diagnosis

After one of her employees tested positive for coronavirus and fell sick, Cheri Lindsey decided to close Lindsey’s until March. Lindsey’s has never closed since the pandemic began, instead pivoting to take-out and implementing strict cleaning...

Kindling success with candle company

Christina Lee Tomkiewicz, the owner of the Cloverdilly Candle Company, was inspired to start making candles herself after wondering about the source of the black soot that accumulated on her store-bought candles. She found out that the soot was the...

Onset’s newest shop: The Onset Bay Trading Company and Gallery on East

When Deb Alfonso and Michelle Brodeur partnered to open a new brick and mortar store in Onset, they were driven by their passion for art and their love of the community. The result was a brightly-colored, inviting shop filled with a wide variety of...

Cannabis-based topical products manufacturer could head to Wareham

The Board of Selectmen gave Town Administrator Derek Sullivan, with the assistance of Town Planner Ken Buckland, permission to negotiate a host community agreement with BeachGrass Topicals, a business that will manufacture cannabis-based topical...

Marijuana growing, processing company hopes to open on Cranberry Highway

A duo of businessmen hope to open a new marijuana cultivation and processing company called Trava in Jordan Plaza at 3119 Cranberry Highway. The entrepreneurs, Vladimir Georgiev and Krzysztof Sadlowski, currently co-own the V and K Smoke Shop in...

Gateway Tavern temporarily closed following employee covid diagnosis

The Gateway Tavern, located at 371 Marion Rd., is temporarily closed following an employee’s positive covid test. “We are taking an abundance of caution to keep our staff and customers safe and are choosing to close until the entire staff has been...

Fortune teller’s license application approved by Selectmen

Fortune tellers can legally operate in Wareham now that the Board of Selectmen have created a license application for fortune tellers. The Selectmen unanimously agreed to approve Kristina Lisa Burbank’s application for a license to tell fortunes on...

Seven buildings sold to new property management company

There’s a new landlord in town: Newman Properties has purchased a portfolio of seven buildings in Onset which include a total of 58 apartments and 12 commercial units. The properties were formerly owned by Len Cubellis, and sold for a total of $8,...

Kinlin Grover opens Onset office

Kinlin Grover Real Estate has opened a new office in Onset that will serve Onset, Wareham, and the South Coast. The company currently has 23 offices across the Cape and South Coast from Provincetown to South Dartmouth. “Speaking for everyone at...

Soft as a Grape opens Wareham store

Soft as a Grape, the screen-printed apparel company that has operated a factory in Wareham for years, now has a retail location in town, too. The store is located next to Bath and Bodyworks in the Wareham Crossing Plaza, and Sarah Turrell, the...

Wareham couple hopes to open new cafe

A local couple is seeking crowdfunding to help them open a new cafe in the 35 Rosebrook Plaza, where people can swing by to grab a coffee and pastry to go, or sit down to enjoy a leisurely breakfast or lunch. “I want to bring something fresh to the...

The show goes on: Flagship Cinemas reopens in Wareham

For the first time in months, movie goers are being treated to shows on the big screen while eating their snacks of choice at Flagship Cinemas in Wareham. “I like to think of it as a long intermission [rather than a shutdown]” said Janete Oprendek,...

RogersGray named top workplace by employees

Insurance Business America recently announced that RogersGray, which has an office in Wareham, has been named as the #1 “Top Insurance Workplace” in the country for independent insurance agencies with more than 100 and less than 500 employees. The...