A global picture through fiber optics; Over 100 jobs created in last 3 years as Schott expands in Southbridge.
Byline: Brian Lee SOUTHBRIDGE - With a European parent corporation and an American subsidiary, Schott North America Inc. is concerned about the dollar's strength. This doesn't hurt its growing Southbridge fiber optics facility, but it kills the parent, said President Gerald Fine. During...

Kirkland, Wash., Awards Video Franchise to Verizon.
Vote Paves the Way for Innovative, Competitive Choice for TV Service, Delivered Over the Nation's Most Advanced, All-Fiber-Optic Network Straight to Consumers' Homes EVERETT, Wash., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Residents of Kirkland are a major step closer to having an innovative, reliable and competitive alternative for their...

More Cable TV Choice For Consumers In Grafton, Hudson And Weston, Mass.
Thousands More Consumers, Small Businesses Now Can Order Verizon's FiOS TV, the Only TV Service Delivered Over the Nation's Most Advanced Fiber-Optic Network Straight to Consumers New FiOS TV Residential Customers Eligible for a Free High-Def DVR for 12 Months and Free Month of HBO and Cinemax...

Southern Company Third Quarter Positive Despite Economic Challenges, Mild Weather.
ATLANTA, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southern Company reported third quarter earnings of $780.4 million, or $1.01 a share. The earnings compared with $762.0 million, or $1.00 a share, in the third quarter of 2007. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081023/CLTH042 ) Earnings for the first nine months of 2008...

Skate Iraq?
IT'S SAFE TO SAY that an active war zone is the last place anybody would think of to build a massive skateboard park. But a California-based investment company called C3 is already in the process of erecting several small parks throughout Baghdad, Iraq, with plans to build a one-million...

New CEO at Mueller Water Products.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-5 September 2008-New CEO at Mueller Water Products(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Robert G. Leggett has been named chief operating officer of Mueller Water Products. He will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of Mueller Water Products' three divisions: Mueller, U.S. Pipe,...

Idea sparks a school defibrillator program.
Byline: Kim Ring SOUTHBRIDGE - Firefighter Paramedic Robbie M. Barton felt the spark of an idea hitting. He'd read the statistics from the American Heart Association: At least 7,000 children will die of sudden cardiac arrest this year. "Wouldn't it be a good...

Mary Ellen J. (Leger) Wesson, 84.
WORCESTER MaryEllen J. (Leger) Wesson, 84, passed away Thursday, September 25th 2008. She is survived by her two daughters, Deanna Annis on Long Island, NY and Alana Wesson of Worcester, her best friend Barbara Bousquet and her family with whom she lived; a brother, Joseph R. "Red"...

Main St. building up for big changes; Rehab touted as energy efficient.
Byline: Brian Lee SOUTHBRIDGE - The seriously challenged Memorial Hall building is expected to boost the downtown, once its new owners turn it into a teaching model for sustainability. The man doing the work, J. Gabriel McCarthy, is no stranger to redevelopment projects here. ...