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The city council approved development agreements.

The investigation into a Monday Galesburg fire continues. Galesburg Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 149 E. Main Street on Feb. 19, 2024, at 10:07 a.m. The structure has two businesses on the first floor, and residential units on the second and third floors. The fire was successfully extinguished, and the city continues […]

Pixelle CEO Timothy Hess said in part that the plan keeps "a large number of employees working" and said the company would continue to invest in the mill. Specifically, the company will invest $1 million in retraining former mill employees displaced as a result of the explosion. No one was injured in the incident, which stopped manufacturing at the mill for eight days. Dana Doran, executive director of the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine, said Wednesday that the Jay mill represented about 23 percent of the pulp market for the state and added $619 million to the Maine economy in 2017...

Jay mill to permanently idle paper machine, not rebuild pulp mill Pixelle establishes $1 million fund to support retraining for employees laid off after the Androscoggin Mill pulp digester exploded in April. Share A section of the Androscoggin Mill is heavily damaged in April when a pulp digester explodes. Pixelle Specialty Papers announced Wednesday it will not rebuild its pulp mill and will permanently idle its third paper machine. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal file photo JAY — The owner of the Androscoggin Mill announced Wednesday that it will not rebuild a wood pulp digester that explo...