East Millinocket

In northern Maine, business opportunities are popping up in unexpected places: 3D metal printing in Orono, a new nursing education program in Millinocket, and a massive bridge construction project in Madawaska.

Bangor-based Eastern Maine Community College is expanding its associate degree program in nursing to the Katahdin region.

The federal government will award $1.25 million in grants to support forest-industry development projects at the University of Maine and in East Millinocket.

More focus on the northern towns of the Katahdin region, more places to eat and better infrastructure...

The Katahdin Region Development Board is reviewing applications for the post of economic development director for the region, and will set up interviews soon, said Mike Michaud, chairman of the development board.

Ten years ago, Millinocket was the poster town for what happens when its mill closes. Now it's the poster town for what you can do about it. Meet some of the people who are working to create Millinocket's post-paper-mill economy.

SBA's regional New England Administrator Wendell Davis drove up from Boston last week to see what Our Katahdin was up to at the shuttered Great Northern Paper mill site in Millinocket. He toured the mill site and then sat down with representatives of Our Katahdin to provide an overview of SBA's loan and business development programs that might be able to help their redevelopment efforts.

The biomass company EMEP LLC is facing challenges in getting the funding it needs for the redevelopment of the former Great Northern Paper mill in East Millinocket as a biorefinery and energy park.

Two sharply different visions for the future of the Katahdin region were presented during Tuesday's Republican-led hearing in Washington, D.C., looking at presidentially declared national monuments, including Maine's Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.

A federal court in Portland granted a temporary restraining order on Tuesday that stops demolition at the former Great Northern Paper Co. Mill in East Millinocket.