[CPEO-BIF] Saunders Brothers mill site, Greenwood, Main

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Greenwood might be asked to help clear the way for mill re-opening


Bethel Citizen (ME)
July 21, 2010

The fate of the former Saunders Brothers dowel mill in Locke Mills – and 
the more than 50 well paying jobs it provided – may ultimately rest in 
the hands of Greenwood voters.

In early July the mill was purchased at auction by a group of investors 
for $450,000. They said at the time that their intention was to reopen 
it as dowel mill, but they have yet to obtain the necessary financing 
package.

And that, they said, is where Greenwood could help - not by making a 
financial commitment to the venture, but by accepting a one-acre parcel 
of land from the mill site.

Land with a soil pile on it contaminated with PCBs.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bethelcitizen.com/node/3274/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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