Two men injured and one killed at Gaston Mill.
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Tragedy at Gaston Lumber Mill
Gasoline $5 a Gallon in 2012?
Fuel prices forecasted to rise in 2011.
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Housing to Rebound in 2011
Housing rebound a reality in 2011?
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Nominate a Hero — Goodyear’s Highway Hero Program
Goodyear's North American Highway Hero program nominations end November 30.
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Multi-million center for wood-based composite materials
The Oregon State University (OSU) and Virginia Tech were chosen by the National Science Foundation to lead a new Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. The center will focus on a wood-based composite materials and is the center of $2.2 million, five-year research initiative, . The center will facilitate the work of six OSU faculty members and three OSU graduate...
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Cisgenics — New Tool for Biotechnology
Cisgenics success may help create bigger trees faster and transcend some of the costly, time-consuming regulatory hurdles.
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2010 Looks to be a Better Year
There’s no way to get around it. 2009 was ROUGH! I don’t know of one family in the industry that wasn’t struggling in one way or another. Here’s to a much-improved 2010. I’d like to think we’re headed out of the hole. I’m optimistic, in part, because I’m not the only one that sees...
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Weyerhaeuser to Convert to REIT
On Tuesday Weyerhaeuser announced that it will be converting to an REIT (real estate investment trust) in 2010. The Associated Press reported that Weyerhaeuser had been under pressure to lower its income tax rate — which currently totals 35 percent. This move will definitely lower the company’s tax burden because an investment trust can...
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Housing Market Recovers SLOWLY
We just sold our house. It’s been on the market a year and half, and over that time prices for our sized home dropped over $100,000.00. A year and a half ago I never thought I’d says, “I feel LUCKY to have sold it even after that big of a cut.” On the bright...
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Paying Homage to an Original Smokejumper
What would it take to get you to parachute into a forest fire? Most people would answer, “Nothing. Because I wouldn’t do it.” Luckily there are people like Early Cooley, who make a career out of it. Mr. Cooley died earlier this month at the age of 98, but will be remembered for being...
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