When or if Hy-SyEnce takes off as a manufacturer of wastewater treatment systems that both create power and eliminate methane as a by-product, it will all have started at the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center.

Sean Burke is the publisher of GateHouse Media New England’s Fall River operations, including the daily The Herald News and Herald News.com as well as the weekly O Jornal, O Jornal Brasiliero and El Latino Expreso. 

Alain Duval is Victor Innovatex CEO. Duval oversees the Canadian textile manufacturer that acquired a large piece of the bankrupt Quaker Fabric empire in 2007.

Robert Knight Remington was born in 1826, and would start the grocery store that became the mill supply company that became today’s Borden & Remington chemical company.

William Hawes learned his trade in the machine shop of Hawes, Marvel & Davol, owned in part by his father. In 1857, at age 24, he left to start the Hawes Machine Company. The firm bought and sold all kinds of industrial machinery.

In 1909, 25 workers were sawing, cutting and shaping wood at 943 Pleasant St. and they were doing it for William Prosser, owner of Wm. Prosser & Son, the firm his British immigrant father started.

There was a time when Eddie Abdow bumped around the city in his Frosty Beverage truck delivering bottled soda in a rainbow of flavors right to his customers’ doorsteps.

They don’t have nuts, but they sure have soup.

Blount Fine Foods has been creating its fine, gourmet soups on Currant Road in the city’s Industrial Park for nearly four years now.
 

The history of the newspaper is the history of the community. The paper’s archives go back to before the Civil War, telling stories of battles, hurricanes, births, marriages, sorrows and joys, national and local politics, local heroes and heroines, friends and neighbors.

The newspaper that is The Herald News was the result of a merger of three newspapers born in the 19th century: the Fall River News, which was founded in 1845; the Fall River Daily Herald, established in 1872; and the Fall River Daily Globe, established in 1885.