[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Challenges remain 20 years after Loring Air Force Base [ME} closure"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Challenges remain 20 years after Loring Air Force Base closure

By Julia Bayly
Bangor Daily News
October 17, 2014

LIMESTONE, Maine - Anyone who was living and working in Aroostook  
County in 1991 can probably tell you exactly where they were when the  
news broke that Loring Air Force Base was shutting down.

The base had survived two previous rounds of military base closures  
in the late 1980s, but in July 1991, all appeals and options had run  
out. The federal Base Closure and Realignment Commission had made its  
final recommendation, and on Sept. 30, 1994, the base that once  
housed more than 10,000 military personnel and their dependents and  
played a pivotal role in the Cold War officially closed.

"A lot of people felt it was the end of Aroostook County," Bob Clark,  
executive director of the Northern Maine Development Commission, said  
last month on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the closing. "There  
was a real sense the economic and social fabric [of Aroostook County]  
was going to completely dissolve with the loss of Loring."

...

For the entire article, see
https://bangordailynews.com/slideshow/challenges-remain-20-years- 
after-loring-air-force-base-closure/

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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>
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