In 1845, Hiram Ricker founded Poland Spring. He was a forward thinker, and began to market drinking water. Many thought him crazy for believing people would actually pay for something they could find free in most places. Today, over $100 billion is spent on bottled water each year and Poland Spring — now a subsidiary […]
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Oxford receives bids for sewer plant equipment
OXFORD — Three bids to provide equipment for the town’s planned sewage treatment plant were unsealed at the Town Office on Thursday afternoon. The planned state-of-the-art facility uses a series of fine screens, or membranes, to slough off solids before treating the remaining waste with UV light instead of a conventional chemical treatment. Vendors bidding on the […]
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Medway firefighters battle fire at fertilizer plant
MEDWAY — It was, Fire Chief Brian McLaughlin saw, something that could take days — smoke rising from smoldering embers somewhere within a cedar mulch pile as long as a football field and about 2½ stories tall. Speaking Saturday afternoon, shortly after firefighters concluded their 16-hour battle at Scott’s Co. fertilizer plant to find and […]