Millinocket

On Friday, Olympia and I both spoke at the annual convention of the VFW in Lewiston and then headed north to meet with town officials, union representatives, and the mill manager at Katahdin Paper Company in Millinocket. Despite its great workforce and plentiful customers, the mill is slated to be shut down at the end of July because the high cost of oil makes it unprofitable. Unlike most paper mills in Maine, the Millinocket mill runs on oil.