Forest bioproducts, clean energy and new uses for old infrastructure are the focus points for industrial projects across Maine slated to receive technical assistance from the state.
The Maine Redevelopment Land Bank Authority — created two years ago by the state Legislature — aims to accelerate the redevelopment of neglected, abandoned, environmentally hazardous and functionally obsolete properties.
The funding would stabilize and rehabilitate the existing structures of the former Great Northern paper mill, opening the door to future redevelopment.
Lynch Logistics and its related companies offer logistics services, truckload freight hauling, warehousing, last mile delivery service, household and commercial moving and secure document management services.
A public-private program has been supporting redevelopment projects for the next generation of forest products. With the new money, funding now totals $1.2 million.
The plant is expected to begin production in the fall, and is the anchor tenant in the town-owned developing innovation park at the former Great Northern Paper mill site.
Former Katahdin Chamber of Commerce Director Peter Jamieson will promote economic development in Millinocket, East Millinocket, Medway, Patten, Mount Chase, Sherman, Stacyville and Island Falls in the position that was created in 2018.
A new online program set to start this fall will be Maine's first in the interdisciplinary field of emergency management, and the country’s only emergency management graduate program that is "trauma-informed," UMA says.