A multi-generational family business continues to evolve as it heads into its ninth decade.
Boulden Brothers’ 80 Year anniversary was celebrated Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting, tributes and proclamations at its complex on Sandy Drive at the western edge of Newark. The company has only been there about seven years after relocating from its previous headquarters off Barksdale Road.
Omar and Urie Boulden Sr. launched Boulden Brothers Coal in 1946, and over the years iterations of the partnership expanded into propane, septic and eventually plumbing, HVAC and electrical. The propane division, portable toilet division and septic division were sold off in later years…