BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 11, 2022
Millinocket and East Millinocket will receive $3.5 million to redevelop their former paper mills as part of a federal spending bill that the U.S. Senate passed late Thursday evening. The town of East Millinocket will receive $2.85 million and Millinocket nonprofit Our Katahdin will receive $671,000 as part of a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill, which funds the federal government through the rest of fiscal year 2022. Our Katahdin, which owns the former Great Northern Paper Co. mill site, will use its award to fund a study of the former mill’s wastewater treatment plant and examine its options for remediation and reuse. Meanwhile, East Millinocket will use its award to renovate buildings on its former mill site to attract future tenants.