Katahdin Region towns form rare comprehensive plan partnership
A comprehensive plan that allows the towns of East Millinocket, Medway and Millinocket to collaborate more efficiently on economic development has been approved by the state Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. The Katahdin Region plan, at 255 pages, aims to create a collaboration that will help boost economic development in the region decimated in the last decade by two major mill closings, the Eastern Maine Development Corp., which helped develop the plan, said in a news release. Collaborating regionally allows for cost efficiencies and more support of shared goals and str...