Stories about Eugene Conlogue
Houlton council, community still concerned about costly Millar Civic Center
HOULTON, Maine — There is little dispute among residents of Houlton or surrounding communities that the Millar Civic Center is a gem that enriches life in the area, particularly in the winter. But gems cost money, and for the past few years, the center has cost a lot more than ...
Millinocket offers Peggy Daigle town manager job
MILLINOCKET, Maine — After more than 30 years in town government, the last thing Peggy Daigle wanted was another government job, she said Wednesday. “I really wanted to have a life,” said the 60-year-old grandmother of two. “I was looking forward to the next phase of my life.” But the ...
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Millinocket poised to hire temporary successor to departing town manager
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Town Council members expect to hire a temporary replacement for departing Town Manager Eugene Conlogue on Friday, Chairman John Davis said Thursday. Councilors voted 4-2 to accept Conlogue’s resignation, 7-0 to extend his contract to his Oct. 5 departure date and 6-0 to hire Maine Municipal Association ...
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Millinocket town manager to leave for Houlton position
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Town Manager Eugene Conlogue, perhaps best known for his opposition to Roxanne Quimby’s proposed national park, will resign early next month to become Houlton’s town manager, officials said Wednesday. The Houlton Town Council will formally vote to appoint Conlogue on Monday. Councilors interviewed him for the second ...
Penobscot County commissioners to discuss Quimby park plan
MILLINOCKET, Maine – Town Manager Eugene Conlogue will ask Penobscot County leaders to oppose Roxanne Quimby’s proposed national park, even as the philanthropist’s son says he continues to search for the best use of her 70,000 acres. Speaking as a prominent member of the Maine Woods Coalition, Conlogue will address ...
Millinocket leaders to meet Thursday to consider school budget
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Town leaders will decide Thursday whether to accept a no-frills $6.63 million school budget that holds the local taxpayer contribution to last year’s levels, officials said Monday. The Town Council will meet at 4:30 p.m. to vote on the proposed 2012-13 budget. Councilors informally reached an agreement ...
Millinocket rejects settling $216,000 dispute with LePage
MILLINOCKET, Maine — More than an hour of torturous debate ended when the Town Council voted Thursday not to settle a dispute with Gov. Paul LePage over $216,000 in withheld state funds. With the vote, the council decided to not yet accept $504,000 in Sudden and Severe Impact funds, which ...
LePage says Millinocket leaders broke word on landfill deal, withholds $216K
MILLINOCKET, Maine — The state will withhold about $216,000 in aid from Millinocket because town officials broke an agreement to share Dolby landfill operating costs, Gov. Paul LePage’s spokeswoman said Wednesday. The spokeswoman, Adrienne Bennett, announced that East Millinocket and Millinocket will each get about $504,000 in Sudden and Severe ...
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Is East Millinocket’s Dolby landfill the next Juniper Ridge?
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Operating the Dolby landfill could cost the state as much as $46.5 million over the next 30 years but it could earn many more times that if it becomes a regional trash dump like Juniper Ridge, officials say. Exactly what to do with the landfill has ...
National Park Service chief outlines goals of feasibility study
MILLINOCKET, Maine – Local sentiment for and against a new national park would be considered, but Congress, the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service would determine the uses of the 70,000 acres conservationist Roxanne Quimby proposes giving to the park service in 2016, according to a letter ...
With statewide ATV trail open, Millinocket leaders approve spur into downtown
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Now that the Katahdin region has an ATV trail linked to a statewide network, town workers will create a spur extending the trail into downtown to improve the local economy. As proposed by Town Councilor John Raymond and approved by a 7-0 council vote on Thursday, the ...
Millinocket council to set TIF, taxes for potential mills buyer
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Town leaders hope to meet in special session on Wednesday to set a new tax incentive agreement and property taxes for a possible buyer of the two Katahdin region paper mills, Town Manager Eugene Conlogue said Tuesday. Details on the tax-increment financing deal and Cate Street Capital ...
Quimby says confirmation of snowmobilers’ access to her land ‘premature’
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Entrepreneur Roxanne Quimby has called “premature” a report that she and her land manager had reached a settlement with regional snowmobile clubs and dropped an implied threat to close snowmobile trails running through her lands this winter if snowmobile clubs failed to support her proposed national park. ...
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, park service director to visit Millinocket
MILLINOCKET, Maine — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis will visit Millinocket on Thursday to discuss environmentalist Roxanne Quimby‘s proposal to turn 70,000 acres she owns into a national park, officials said Tuesday. Town Manager Eugene Conlogue described the visit as “a ...
Brookfield grants Katahdin paper mills another reprieve
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — The Toronto-based corporation that owns the two Katahdin region paper mills is giving Gov. Paul LePage more time to close a deal with a potential buyer of the mills, he said Tuesday. “We are cautiously optimistic that a deal can be reached to re-establish the long ...
Millinocket seeking ATV enforcement grants
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Town leaders are applying for two grants that will help pay police for ATV enforcement patrols in town and on the Katahdin region’s first multiuse recreational trail network, which tentatively is slated to open on Labor Day. The Town Council voted 7-0 on Thursday to seek two ...
Millinocket to dog owners: Scoop the poop, or else
By Nick Sambides Jr. on June 28, 2011, at 12:32 p.m.
MILLINOCKET, Maine — People who allow their dogs to defecate on town property do not have a friend in Eugene Conlogue. Known for his genial nature and a dry, laid-back sense of humor, the town manager became animated at a Town Council meeting last week, warning residents to scoop the ...
State representative: Lack of wood preventing sale of Katahdin mills
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 ...
Millinocket residents argue about Roxanne Quimby’s national park idea
MILLINOCKET, Maine ― Roxanne Quimby has another chance to sell town leaders on a national park. Almost 2½ hours of discussion on a resolve condemning efforts to create a park ended Thursday with the Town Council voting to table the matter until Quimby presents her national park plan at a ...
Katahdin region gets $75,000 for mill closure
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine – It’s nothing like a windfall, but the closing of the Main Street paper mill leaves the region’s economic development board with an additional $75,000 to help revitalize the Katahdin area’s economy, officials said Thursday. Mill owner Brookfield Asset Management Co. gave the money to the Katahdin ...
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