EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Present and retired Great Northern Paper Co. workers and their families are invited to help celebrate the new GNP’s first year of operations, company officials said Tuesday.
Festivities at the Main Street paper mill are due to start at 10 a.m. Thursday and continue until about 2 p.m. Residents are invited to attend.
Gov. Paul LePage is among several state and local leaders who have been invited to attend the rededication ceremony of the No. 5 and No. 6 paper machines.
LePage culminated weeks of hard and largely secret work by his staff and local leaders and announced on Sept. 17, 2011, that Cate Street Capital of Portsmouth, N.H., had purchased the Main Street and Millinocket paper mills on undisclosed terms.
The deal was made final on Sept. 28 and the East Millinocket mill restarted on Oct. 17, 2011, with 215 workers, though its initial restart stopped a day or two later and was postponed by about a week due to mechanical problems.
Today employing about 272 workers, the mill has a confirmed 38- to 42-day order backlog for No. 6 and customer commitments to buy paper every 30 days or so for the rest of the year. The No. 5 machine runs three days a week, officials have said. The Millinocket mill, which has been shut down since September 2008, remains shuttered and company officials are not optimistic about its restart possibilities.
The mill is on-track to produce about 160,000 tons of newsprint with its No. 5 and 6 machines in 2012, company officials have said.
Thank you Gov. Lepage, Cate Street and Maine GOP for restoring a bit of the wood manufacturing base to northern Maine.
In november, let’s continue this progress by delivering a stinging blow to the anti-business democrats who have led the assault on industry for the last 35 plus years.
Sure-and let’s ignore the other “secret,” which is why does Lepage do everything he can to pave the way for Canadian loggers to come take jobs away from Maine workers? Don’t believe it? Contact Sen. Troy Jackson. Could Lepage still have investments in the New Brunswick company he worked for while hiding out up there during ‘Nam?
You repugnantcans are hell bent on destroying this state and this country and any vote for your party will guarantee that.
Reclaim Maine Vote Democrat 2012
Why is it when someone makes a post you Democrats don’t agree with you resort to name calling? You are showing how childish and unitelligent you are!
It’s their nature. They, especially Obama, have dismal records of failure so they use lies and name calling to distract.
mainegal must have gotten that attitude from listening to people like Todd Akin,Richard Mourdock and the list goes on and on and on
If you believe what Troy Jackson spews, I have some very nice property in Aroostook county with ocean views that I’d like to sell you.
Gosh, I thought Mr. LePage had turned into a groundhog, and that we wouldn’t see him again until February 2nd, if perhaps briefly.
Has their ever been an incumbent Governor in Maine so reviled as Mr. LePage? Such that even his own party want nothing to do with him in the run-up to the election?
Maybe the free food at this affair is what will get him to break cover.
Yeah, just before a major election and the only place he has been invited to appear is at a stinky old paper mill ?
That scent you so abhor is the smell of workers feeding their families without the liberal welfare system being involved.
Is that why you don’t like it?
271 Good paying jobs with health insurance and other benefits. How awful!
………its because of the unlimited buffet at the festivities.
I was going to say, there was lots of cake.
The mill in East doesn’t stink. You’re thinking of Lincoln.
Thank you Governor LePage-
So how come it took one less than polished conservative job creator to reopen the mills, when three other liberal overly PC greenies (King, Baldacci & Michaud) couldn’t…..?
Answer:
*They didn’t want to-
*They couldn’t be bothered-
*It wasn’t in the greenies master plan-
I bet Ol Quimby is “real happy” about the revitalization of the mills…!
Roxanne, don’t leave mad,,,,JUST LEAVE…. :-P