PLYMOUTH — Months of research and community outreach on future uses for reclaiming the land used as lagoons for the Gorham paper mill’s watery byproducts culminated in a presentation Dec. 8 by college students.
White Mountain Paper Mill owner Evan Behrens sat in the audience in the Ray Burton Room of the college library, listening to the students’ presentations. Behrens is the managing partner of the Behrens Investment Group,
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