The Reflector, a 117-year-old newspaper in Battle Ground, has new owners. Brothers and co-owners of a billion-dollar business Camden and Mac Spiller announced in a web post late Wednesday afternoon that they had purchased the town’s sole news outlet.
The sale immediately raised concern about the Spillers’ growing influence in Battle Ground from some community members on local social media pages.
The Spillers own Maddox Industrial Transformer, a fast-growing Battle Ground-based electrical infrastructure company whose sales have been fueled by the data center boom. They have purchased approximately 30 properties in town over the past several years, from Al and Ernie’s Bakery Cafe downtown to a 60-acre plot of land that’s slated to be the location of a new church and a convention center…