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Rob Janssen, RN, BSN, CEN has assumed the position of chief nursing officer at Down East Community Hospital in Machias. Janssen joined DECH in 2010 as a nursing supervisor, and was promoted to nurse manager of the Emergency Department and Cardiac Rehabilitation shortly after arrival. He later became interim chief ...
Dec. 30, 2011
• • In Business, On the Job
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Construction activity at the site of what will be New England’s first torrefied wood machine has begun, workers said Thursday. Demolition work on the foundations of several buildings and other prep work at the Great Northern Paper Co. LLC mill on Katahdin Avenue ramped up this week ...
Nov. 01, 2012
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Most of the old Great Northern Paper Co.’s buildings will be razed as the new GNP and its parent company prep the Katahdin Avenue mill site for an industrial park, a company spokesman said Saturday. Cate Street Capital executives are keeping busy with the razing of six ...
Feb. 23, 2013
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — The new owners of the local paper mill toured the facility Wednesday for the first time since buying it last week and announced plans to start filling a full year of orders with 215 workers by Oct. 10. With more than 500 job applications to review ...
Sept. 21, 2011
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In News, Penobscot
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Less than a year after its revival, the Great Northern Paper Co. plans to get a second paper machine up and running in East Millinocket, creating an additional 37 jobs, according to the company’s president and CEO. When the mill reopened its doors in October 2011, ...
Aug. 02, 2012
• By Nick McCrea • In Business, News, Penobscot
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Exactly a week after he said that Great Northern Paper Co. LLC didn’t regard Roxanne Quimby’s proposed 70,000-acre national park a threat to his industry, Peter Hanson is no longer GNP’s president, company officials announced Tuesday. Hanson resigned on Monday as a result of what company ...
Dec. 20, 2011
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage is optimistic that a New Hampshire investor will close a deal to buy the two Katahdin region paper mills by midnight Thursday, putting several hundred people back to work, his spokeswoman said Wednesday. “We are getting very close to that deadline but we are ...
Sept. 14, 2011
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot, Politics, State House News
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — More than 400 union members helped clear what might be the last hurdle to restarting two Katahdin region paper mills by overwhelmingly supporting a tentative contract late Wednesday with a prospective investor, officials said. Under the five-year deal, Cate Street Capital would pay workers the same ...
Sept. 14, 2011
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot
Cash flow problems at an East Millinocket paper mill have left the business’s owners months behind in some of their payments to vendors, officials said Wednesday. But a company official said that Cate Street Capital and its subsidiaries, Great Northern Paper Co. and Thermogen Industries, are hoping pending emergency legislation ...
May 01, 2013
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — A New Hampshire-based investor seeking to buy the two Katahdin region paper mills plans to call its mill-operating subsidiary “Great Northern Paper Co. LLC” — harking back to the mills’ origins — and invest $20 million to $25 million in the Main Street mill as soon ...
Sept. 01, 2011
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot
The new Great Northern Paper Co. LLC will make its first property tax payments to East Millinocket and Millinocket shortly thanks to a $1 million loan from the Finance Authority of Maine, officials said Wednesday. “FAME is pleased to assist Great Northern Paper Co., which is a vital asset to ...
Nov. 30, 2011
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot
The company hopes to restart the Millinocket mill's production of glossy supercalendered paper.
Oct. 24, 2011
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage and his forest products advisor Rosaire Pelletier are among the key players who will be invited to help the new Great Northern Paper Co. LLC celebrate its one-year anniversary on Oct. 25, the company’s spokesman said. “It is a great achievement, and the ...
Oct. 14, 2012
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Town leaders will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday to discuss and possibly approve a proposed property-tax agreement with the would-be buyer of the two Katahdin region paper mills. Mark Scally, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, said the board met for an hour in executive session ...
Sept. 12, 2011
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In News, Penobscot, State
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — A New Hampshire-based investor will buy two shuttered paper mills for an undisclosed price sometime Friday, putting as many as 500 people back to work in what could spark an economic rebirth of northern Maine’s Katahdin region. Richard Cyr, a senior vice president at Cate Street ...
Sept. 15, 2011
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot, State
MILLINOCKET, Maine — A possible buyer of the two Katahdin region paper mills would pay $900,000 annually in property taxes to the town under a tentative arrangement town leaders accepted on Tuesday. With East Millinocket town leaders also having tentatively accepted their town’s tax deal with Cate Street Capital on ...
Sept. 13, 2011
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot
VIDEO AND POLL
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine – Call it Fifty Shades of East Millinocket. An NBC newsmagazine show will feature on Thursday the publishing success of a series of erotic novels and the boost they gave the Main Street paper mill. “Rock Center with Brian Williams” correspondent Harry Smith interviewed town leaders and ...
Sept. 26, 2012
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, Living, News, Penobscot
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — State officials said they hoped that by late Friday a New Hampshire-based investor would buy two shuttered paper mills for an undisclosed price, re-employing several hundred millworkers. “They have the [final] paperwork in front of them right now,” Adrienne Bennett, spokeswoman for Gov. Paul LePage, said ...
Sept. 16, 2011
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot, Politics, State, State House News
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins emerged from a closed-door meeting with owners of the new Great Northern Paper Co. LLC mill confident that company plans to produce biocoal would result in big dividends for the Katahdin region, she said Thursday. Collins, R-Maine, reviewed the mill’s papermaking operations, ...
Jan. 20, 2012
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Penobscot
Great Northern Paper Co. LLC does not support environmentalist Roxanne Quimby’s proposed 70,000-acre national park, company leaders announced Thursday. Seeking to remove what they felt was ambiguity from Great Northern Paper President Peter Hanson’s statements Tuesday at a Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce dinner, Great Northern CEO Richard Cyr and ...
Dec. 15, 2011
• By Nick Sambides Jr. • In Business, News, Piscataquis, State
