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Mike Fox

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Forster Toothpick Mill
« on: August 09, 2009, 04:05:30 PM »
The former toothpick mill exploded this week. It is (or was) now a wood pellet mill.
http://www.sunjournal.com/node/79817/
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Re: Forster Toothpick Mill
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2009, 05:27:07 AM »
« Last Edit: August 18, 2009, 08:45:28 AM by Ed Lecuyer »
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Re: Forster Toothpick Mill
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2023, 05:13:23 PM »
Quote from: Mike Fox on August 09, 2009, 04:05:30 PM
The former toothpick mill exploded this week. It is (or was) now a wood pellet mill.
http://www.sunjournal.com/node/79817/
  Drove through Strong last Friday, the mill appears very busy with pellet making.
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Re: Forster Toothpick Mill
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2023, 09:08:57 AM »
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Re: Forster Toothpick Mill
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2023, 11:00:45 AM »
Brings back memories of the six months I spent living in Phillips, and working in Strong after graduating and before reporting for duty as an Army  Transportation Corps Officer at Fort Eustis, VA.

I worked first trick as a laborer at the Starbird Lumber Company and third trick as the night watchmen/fireman at the Forster Worlds Fair Toothpick Factory.

The people in Franklin County Maine were some of the nicest people I every met, and I fondly remember the Toothakers, Pillsburys, Stinchfields, Beals, and many others who made me feel like I was a member of their wonderful community.
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Re: Forster Toothpick Mill
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2023, 04:29:15 PM »
There is a listing on realtor.com for a property in Madrid, Maine. Described as encompassing 2.6 acres and being constructed in 1880, it is on the corner of Reeds Mill Road and River Road. The Realtor states, "historic building was originally the Madrid Hotel for guests traveling the S.R. & R.L. Railroad." The Sandy River flows by within sight of the  porch. Well worth seeing.
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Re: Forster Toothpick Mill
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2023, 07:28:34 PM »
Quote from: Tom Casper on October 10, 2023, 09:08:57 AM
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It's a news article from 2009. Most news sites don't keep stuff online that long...
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Re: Forster Toothpick Mill
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2023, 07:38:07 PM »
A short search on the Sun Journal website finds this 14-year-old article:  https://www.sunjournal.com/2009/08/09/wood-pellet-blast-rocks-strong/

Wood pellet blast rocks Strong
BY SCOTT TAYLOR, STAFF WRITER
 
STRONG — A 1:30 a.m. blast in a drying machine at a wood pellet manufacturing plant Saturday rocked the area for three-quarters of a mile.

“Even the emergency dispatcher said they heard it, before the calls started coming in,” said Strong Fire Chief Scott Dyar.

He said three employees were in the building at the time of the explosion and another was outside. No injuries were reported, however.

“There was no fire by the time we arrived, just the damage from the blast,” Dyar said. “I can’t say for sure that the building’s destroyed, but the owners are having structural engineers in to look at it and determine just what can be done.”

The blast occurred in the former Forster Manufacturing toothpick mill. The building was taken over by Geneva Energies LLC in 2008. Geneva is an Illinois-based investment group...
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