Merry Christmas from Barry and his ‘RAT pals!
Hang on... why do they expect the state government to find a buyer? They should let the private sector do business and keep the state nose out of it.
Folks, Look up the Logging industry in the Adirondacks for what will happen to that area of Maine.
Sad story. Competition from overseas, weak demand for product, increasing costs, and less demand for printed materials in the internet age.
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These jobs must pay very well for people to do this. I've never heard of this arrangement being used for blue-collar jobs outside the oil & gas sector.
Damn, we always stop in Bucksport for a soft ice cream on the way to Bar Harbor. It’s right across the Penobscot from the original Fort Knox, an impressive granite fortification erected to keep the British North Americans from stealing all the timber on the Penobscot. I’ve driven by that plant dozens of times. I was always amazed they could keep it open all these years.
I’ve met two Buckportians outside of Bucksport, one a young woman who worked at our company, and later moved to Montana where her husband was from. The other was a young airman in Alaska who was assigned to drive me someplace. They both saw no future in Bucksport.
Isn’t Maine one of the states where ‘refugees’ are being sent at a furious pace? I thought importing third world unskilled non working immigrants was a boost to the economy.
The attack of the paperless workplace.
Ah, it's the buggy whip scenario.