By Erin Rhoda Staff Writer
JACKMAN — A 5-year-old boy was killed early Tuesday when a Canadian logging truck crashed into his home on Main Street in Jackman, according to police.
The boy was sleeping on the couch when the logs rolled inside, killing him, around 2:30 a.m.
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DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — It’s tough enough for American sawmills to compete when the lumber industry is depressed by the economy; it’s still tougher when foreign competition has the competitive edge because of government subsidies.
The United States and Canada signed a Softwood Lumber Agreement in 2006 that would level the playing field for sawmills in both countries, but that playing field is hardly level because the Canadian government continues to subsidize its forest industry.
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EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — A local businessman who already owns a retail stove and alternative fuels store and is part owner of a scrap metal business wants to be the next owner of the two Katahdin region paper mills.
Galen Hale told the Bangor Daily News on Tuesday that he has been “tentatively assured” of enough start-up capital to get the East Millinocket paper mill operational and that he envisions no unions at either mill.
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MILLINOCKET, Maine — A lack of wood is one of several logjams preventing a Chinese investor from buying both Katahdin region paper mills for $1, one of the area’s state representatives says, though industry insiders say the wood’s affordability might be the real issue.
Rep. Herbert Clark, D-Millinocket, told the Town Council during its meeting Thursday that International Grand Investors Corp. of Delaware wasn’t finding enough wood in the area to make the purchase agreeable…
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MILLINOCKET, Maine ― Town leaders will me
et today to discuss whether to publicly oppose efforts to turn a vast chunk of the North Woods into a national park, something they last did in 2000.
Town Manager Eugene Conlogue said he expects “lively discussion” when the Town Council meets at 4:30 p.m.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Investors who recently bought a Baileyville mill were negotiating Tuesday to purchase two Katahdin region paper mills even as lawmakers and LePage administration officials scrambled to win support for a bill deemed critical to the potential sale.
Dan Whyte, vice president of Brookfield Asset Management, the current owner of the two Katahdin Paper mills, told the Bangor Daily News that talks “are in progress” to sell the facilities to International Grand Investors Corp. of Delaware for $1.
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Verso Paper released it’s 2010 Sustainability Report. Click the link below to view the report which features a photo of TCNEF and Northeast Masterlogger Certification Executive Director Beth Postlewaite (page 16 & 17 of the PDF) and Verso’s $100,000 grant to TCNEF to expand FSC Certification. You may also order a hard copy of the report from the link.
By Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN Staff
ORRINGTON, Maine — A local woodcutter was killed Tuesday afternoon when he got caught between a skidder and a tree while working in the woods off Mason Hill Road, Assistant Fire Chief Scott Stewart said on Wednesday.
“The victim was pronounced dead at the scene,” he said.
Holden resident William Jordan, 38, was working for local company Larry Eckert and Son, which had been hired to log the private land, Sgt. William Birch of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office, who is leading the investigation, said Wednesday.
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PORTLAND – Maine Attorney General William Schneider and Plum Creek Timber Co. said Friday they’re appealing to the state Supreme Judicial Court to remove a barrier to the company’s development plan in the Moosehead Lake region.
Both of the appeals aim to overturn a Superior Court judge’s determination a week ago that the Land Use Regulation Commission didn’t follow the proper process in approving the massive development.
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By Susan M. Cover
AUGUSTA – Sixteen months ago, Bill Beardsley left his job as president of Husson University to run for governor…
…Now, he finds himself working for one of his former rivals — Gov. Paul LePage — as commissioner of the Department of Conservation.
…When nominating him for the position in December, LePage said Beardsley’s resume was so varied — a state planner in Vermont, hydroelectric vice president in Maine, forest products director in Alaska — he had trouble deciding where best to use his talents.
…”I’ve always asked, what’s the economic value, what’s the present worth,” Beardsley said during a recent interview in his Augusta office.
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