RUMFORD — The Board of Selectmen has approved a purchase-option agreement on 150 acres of town-owned land off Route 108 to allow Poland Spring to look into the feasibility of establishing its fourth bottling plant here. Town Manager Linda-Jean Briggs said, the option agreement for the first year is $25,000, which will eventually go toward the […]
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Poland Spring honors 'Good Neighbors'
POLAND — More than 100 local recipients of 2017 Poland Spring Good Neighbor Grants were recognized for their community service by Poland Spring Water Co. The biennial luncheon Aug. 28 was held at the Poland Spring Museum. In addition, the company presented the 2018 Natural Leader Award to the Poland Spring Preservation Society. The award […]
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King returns to Maine as Poland Spring head pro
John King, the new pro at Poland Spring Golf Course, hits a few balls before a lesson Friday afternoon. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) POLAND — After 20 years of living and working in the southern part of the country, John King has come back to his home state. The Portland native has been a teaching professional […]
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Poland Spring awards $15,000 in scholarships
POLAND — Fifteen Maine high school seniors have received Good Science Scholarships of $1,000 each from Poland Spring Water Co. Recipients included three from Fryeburg Academy, four from Gray-New Gloucester High School, three from Poland Regional High School and five from Bonny Eagle High School. Each recipient is planning to pursue post-secondary education in life […]
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Par for the Course: New head pro excited for first tournament at Poland Spring
John King has come home in a special and historic manner. The new head professional at Poland Spring was hired in March, after being an award-winning teaching pro in Florida and Alabama for many years. Moving from Florida to director of instruction at Saugahatchee Country Club in Opelika, Alabama, King made his mark with numerous […]
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Judge dismisses Poland Spring label suit
A lawsuit alleging that Poland Spring’s bottled water does not come from a spring has been dismissed by a federal judge in Connecticut. The suit, filed last summer, said the source of the bottled water isn’t natural springs but rather “ordinary groundwater” from wells in Maine. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer dismissed the lawsuit […]
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Poland Spring installing test wells in Rumford
Poland Spring Natural Resource Manager Mark Dubois addresses selectmen March 1 on the company’s progress in installing test wells in Rumford. The company has a 15-year contract to extract 150 million gallons of water per year from Rumford Water District wells. (Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times) RUMFORD — Poland Spring Water Co. has installed nine test wells […]
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Critics decry Paul LePage’s choice of Nestle Waters executive Mark Dubois for environmental board
Mark Dubois, a geologist and natural resource manager for Poland Spring, said this week the company is ready to start looking for the site of its fourth bottling plant in Maine along with two new springs, increasing capacity by about 50 percent of what the company bottled last year. AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage has […]
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Good Neighbor Grant awarded
On Dec. 4, Heather Printup, community relations manager for Poland Spring, presented a check for $1,000 to Poland Regional High School’s media department as a part of Poland Spring’s Good Neighbor Grant Program. From left are Printup; Poland Regional High School students Caleb Nottingham, Isaac Ouellette and Holly Desjardins; and media instructor Dawnie Hodgkins.
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Poland Spring poured $201 million into Maine economy in 2016, report says
Poland Spring added more than $200 million to the state economy and employed 860 workers in Maine in 2016, according to an economic impact report released by the company Tuesday. That makes Poland Spring the fifth-largest manufacturer in Maine and an important source of employment and economic growth in rural parts of Maine, where natural […]