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The debate started when some residents learned the town did not already restrict where registered sex offenders could live.

In the longer term, the group hopes to use a newer technology that converts the gas generated by decomposing waste into electricity.

The bidding company decided not to pay the required 10 percent of the sale, meaning the power-generating trash incinerator is back up for auction.

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Now residents are asking the selectmen and town manager for help because they feel unsafe in their town.

The foreclosed PERC facility stopped operations May 2, but continued accepting trash from Orrington residents until early September.

PERC, which stopped operations May 2, was supposed to go to a foreclosure auction in July, but the auction has been delayed twice.

ORRINGTON — More than 20 years after a lawsuit alleged that the HoltraChem Manufacturing Co. had polluted the Penobscot River Estuary with mercury, court-ordered remediation is taking shape. The plant

The PERC has not been operating fully since 2017, or at all since May 2, and has had to store trash received from Orrington residents.

The Penobscot Energy Recovery Company has cut back operations as it prepares to go on the auction block July 12.