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MASSENA — Step inside a building near Joseph Gray’s East Hatfield Street home and it’s a journey back in time. The 24-by-50-foot building could best be described as a museum of artifacts from World Wars I and II. Sitting on the right side near the entrance are a helmet, belt and gas mask. “That’s where it all started,” Mr. Gray said. The start was when he was about 10 years old and growing up in Helena and found what he said others would consider “junk,” ...

Florida citrus packinghouse sold Indian River Exchange Packers (IREP) on Jan. 8 sold its Vero Beach, Florida, packinghouse to Diamond Drinks, a Pennsylvania drink manufacturing firm. The sales price was $4.5 million. “Diamond Drinks will convert the packinghouse into a private drink mixing and bottling company,” said IREP President George Hamner. “They will also extrude and sell plastic bottles.” IREP plans to continue packing fruit at the packinghouse until early March, “then move pe...