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The report from the University of Maine says the industry’s impact was tied to 16% of the jobs in Aroostook County that year.

increase font size Trail of ‘forever chemicals’ leads to Maine paper mills The manufacturing industry, which has used PFAS for decades, faces a reckoning as the state grapples with soil and water contamination. Share Nathan Saunders, whose well was contaminated by sludge that was spread on nearby fields, poses Thursday in front of the field located directly across the street from his home in Fairfield. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer FAIRFIELD — For 32 of its 33 years in this quiet corner of central Maine farm country, the Saunders family has reveled in the solitude, the wi...

"We had the wood resource. We had the loggers available to cut the wood. But we just didn't didn't have the capacity to come online fast enough to produce the lumber in the panels that were needed."

Read Article Keri Libby sits in the operator's cockpit of the de-barker machine at Moose River Lumber in Jackman on May 10. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel Lumber has become a hot commodity over the past year – more than doubling in price by some measures – but the spike in demand isn’t likely to benefit most wood suppliers in Maine. Demand for building materials has jumped during the pandemic, caused at least in part by the hot real estate market that has led many to buy land away from the big cities and build a new home in a safer, rural community. Home renovations and expansion...

The plan, which must be approved by the Maine Legislature, calls for workforce training, broadband expansion, small-business support, investment in innovation as well as heritage industries, child care and housing.