Peekskill: First Cannabis Shop Opens
Valley Greens, the city’s first legal cannabis shop, opened Aug. 24, according to The Peekskill Herald.
It is operated by three childhood friends from Cortlandt who received a state license last year and a permit from the Peekskill Planning Commission in May.
The store, at 939 Central Ave., is open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
A week earlier, on Aug. 15, Shortrope Prime LLC of 2785 Route 9 in Philipstown appeared before the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals with a plan for a hydroponic growing business on the second floor at 1698 Main St. The cannabis would be sold from a licensed dispensary in Sleepy Hollow.Â
The business, Quality High, would join a pasta company and a food distributor in the building, according to The Herald. It would be required by state law to have an odor mitigation plan.
Cortlandt: Landscaper Pleads Guilty to Bribery
The owner of a landscaping company pleaded guilty on Aug. 26 to federal bribery charges, according to The Peekskill Herald.
Glenn Griffin, 55, of Cortlandt Manor, faces up to 10 years in prison. He will be sentenced on Dec. 5.
At the same time, Robert Dyckman, 52, of Verplanck, pleaded guilty to mail fraud. He was the former assistant general foreman for Cortlandt and had been employed by the town for 28 years. He faces up to five years in prison.
According to prosecutors, from 2018 to February 2020, Griffin bribed Dyckman for access to a Town of Cortlandt facility on Saturdays and after hours to secretly dump concrete, cement with rebar, tiles, bricks, rocks, soil and other waste. Griffin was then paid by the town to remove the debris.
The two men were ordered to pay $2.4 million in restitution.
Along with Griffin’s Landscaping, Griffin operates Hilltop Nursery & Garden Center in Croton and Diddell Farms in Wappingers Falls and owns 11 properties in Peekskill, The Herald reported.
