"There's a clear sky in North Adams," Mayor Thomas Bernard quipped as he helped Clear Sky Cannabis' Chief Executive Officer Anthony Parrinello clip a blue ribbon for the shop's grand opening on a clear and cold Saturday morning.
Those skies were cloudy for a bit as the city's first cannabis retail shop wound its way through the lengthy state licensing process and then construction slowed as the novel coronavirus pandemic affected the nation a year ago.
A line was at the door for the 10 a.m. opening at the transformed restaurant on State Road. The Friendly's closed in 2014 and the property was purchased by Clear Sky's parent company Evergreen Strategies in 2019. The Planning Board had approved the shop a year earlier.