REGIONAL DIGEST.
COLUMN: REGIONAL DIGEST Roof sags, starts fire at factory FITCHBURG - A partially collapsed roof in an unused section of a former paper mill caught fire yesterday afternoon when a sagging section ignited an electrical junction box. The fire at the former Falulah...

The historical paper trail: from its origins in the East, paper was historically the catalyst in scientific and artistic achievement the world over and still underpins our lives today.
According to an ancient Chinese manuscript, in 105 AD, Ts'ai Lun, an official in the imperial court of China, reported the invention of a remarkable new material to his emperor. Over the next two millennia, this extraordinary substance--paper--would become one of the key drivers of human development. On its...

OBITUARIES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Darwin Beekman A memorial service will be held April 4 for Darwin D. Beekman of Eugene, who died March 31 of pneumonia following a long battle with Alzheimer's. He was 71. He was born Sept. 8, 1934, in Estelline, S.D.,...

Bigelow Crocker, a city builder and benefactor, is mourned.
Byline: Matthew Bruun FITCHBURG - The city lost a community pillar this week with the death of Bigelow Crocker Jr., 85, a philanthropist from a family with deep roots in the city. Mr. Crocker died at his home in Lunenburg Monday after an illness, surrounded...

Paper from durian rinds pushed by DoST.
Byline: MADEL R. SABATER The Department of Science and Technology (DoST) is encouraging residents in areas planting durian to invest in a technology which produces paper out of durian rinds to create more jobs and boost investments. The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural...

Siam Cement to invest more in RP.
Byline: Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat Thailand's industrial conglomerate Siam Cement Group (SCG), which owns a local paper mill and tiles manufacturing outfit in the Philippines, mulls increasing its P10-billion investments in the local units as it gears up for expansion for the regional market. Suchai Korprasertsri, vice...

Vaclav Smil. Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact.
Vaclav Smil. Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ix + 350. $35.00 READERS with a penchant for contemporary science fiction or twenty-first-century futurology might well have heard of the so-called "technological Singularity." This is the...

No bail for mill fire suspects.
Byline: George Barnes GREENFIELD - Two Clinton men charged with burning the former Usher Mill paper mill building in Erving are being held without bail after a bail review hearing yesterday in Franklin County Superior Court. John Rousseau and Michael P. Dreslinski, both 28, of...

Environment and industry in developing countries; assessing the adoption of environmentally sound technology.
9781845421830 Environment and industry in developing countries; assessing the adoption of environmentally sound technology. Luken, Ralph A. and Frank Van Rompaey. Edward Elgar Publishing 2007 345 pages $145.00 Hardcover HD30 Produced...

`Jumping Frenchmen of Maine' are not forgotten.
Byline: Sid McKEEN COLUMN: WRY AND GINGER I remember my maternal grandfather as a serious, no-nonsense kind of man. Employed for years as an electrician in a paper mill in northern Maine, he talked little, and rarely about his job. When he did, he never...