Bar owners in Worcester County can now buy their liquor from outside wholesalers.
The exclusive right of the county’s Department of Liquor Control on spirits to liquor licensees ended this month.
The county dispensary charges them more than wholesale and uses the money as a form of revenue.
That money is divided between the county and four major towns at the end of the fiscal year.
A financial scandal that rocked the county’s old liquor dispensary led to the change for the board whose revenue disbursements had declined to $110-thousand in 2010 – down from previous totals of $700-thousand.
