BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 23, 2024
After state officials ordered last year that a dormant Bucksport landfill be permanently closed, they have now backed off that order and are giving the owners more time to look into other options. That’s frustrated some local residents and officials, who opposed a recent effort to reopen the landfill and would like to see it closed down for good, in part because it no longer serves the town’s former paper mill, which had owned it, and also because of contamination from the buried waste.