BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 21, 2023
I am 80 years old, born in Millinocket, where my husband and I have lived and worked. We grew up here during the “glory days” when Great Northern Paper Co.’s mills were world-renowned and when millworkers made good money and their children were able to find jobs in the area or could afford to attend college and tech schools. We were also here when Great Northern was nibbled away at by outside investors with empty promises. We need jobs here, but not the kinds of jobs that could destroy wildlife habitat and poison our waters, not now and not for our future generations to have to clean up. ~ Marian Hale Fowler, Indian Purchase Township