East Millinocket News

UNION : Mark Winer always planned to retire in Maine. Instead, on Monday, July 21, he will begin work as the new Union town manager.

Family and friends of an East Millinocket teenager have new hope that her killer will finally be found.

Before the 60-year-old head of a well-known construction firm approached the city of Brewer with an ambitious plan for its shuttered paper mill, he put on a pair of work boots and took a walk around the site.

A Fraser Papers executive who oversees the Katahdin Paper Co. LLC mill expressed confidence Thursday that the mill will operate beyond July 28, but even he doesn't know for how long.

Mill workers at Kathadin Paper Mill in Millinocket have been told the mill will stay open for at least 2 more months.

Back in November MAGIC submitted an application for an NPR radio station. At the time it was widely reported that the station would be owned by Dennis Dunbar and MAGIC had only submitted the application because ...

An East Millinocket paper mill is going oil-free. Katahdin Paper Co. officials said the mill has shut down its oil burner and is now using a biomass boiler to produce all the steam it needs to produce telephone ...

BELFAST : The following cases were closed June 23-27, 2008, at Belfast District Court: Ryan M. Boivin, 36, of Unity, fugitive from justice, dismissed.

Forest products downturn, floods prompt cutbacks BANGOR, Maine, July 3 BANGOR, Maine , /PRNewswire/ -- Montreal , Maine & Atlantic Railway said today that it has trimmed its train service and furloughed 33 ...

The Katahdin Paper Co. LLC's Main Street mill "took a major step toward profitability" by shutting down its oil burner and answering all steam needs with its biomass boiler, company officials said Tuesday.

Chris Crigger has never run a flea market, but he has seen them - big ones. "They have huge flea markets in Ohio," the former Cincinnati resident said Tuesday.

Bradley Thibodeau, 14, and his mother Amy Judson both of Carmel, are the first up the ramp to the new treehouse at the Pine Tree Camp in Rome followed by Nicholas Alexander, 7, of Belgrade on Tuesday, June 17, ...

The Maine Warden Service and other rescue groups continued to search during the weekend for an East Millinocket fisherman who has been missing since Wednesday and is presumed to have drowned.

The Maine Warden Service is scaling back its search for a missing boater on the Penobscot River near Mattawamkeag.

Two out-of-state fishermen in a boat on the Penobscot River found the body of missing fisherman Wayne Crosby on Tuesday near the Chester Bridge about 13 miles down-river from where he was last seen, state ...

Katahdin Paper Co. officials are figuring out how much time and money it would take to install a biomass boiler to provide fuel for its paper mill in an effort to lessen its reliance on oil and keep the ...

Searchers found on Friday the canoe that Wayne Crosby was in just before the accident that killed him, but the East Millinocket fisherman's body continues to elude them.

Maine Wardens spent most of Wednesday night searching for a missing boater in the Penobcot River.

On Tuesday evening the Millinocket council held its FY 2009 Budget Adoption Meeting.

By Kevin Miller Saturday, June 07, 2008 - Bangor Daily News State officials are continuing to examine the feasibility of several alternative energy options for Millinocket's Katahdin Paper Co.