A Paper Mill Goes Quiet, And the Community It Built Gropes for a Way Forward.

The article focuses on the close of the Great Northern Paper mill in Millinocket, Maine in 2008 which has resulted to unemployment of thousands of residents and underfunding of schools, library, and emergency services in the town. It says that the decline of the Great Northern Paper mill has decimated the economy of the area. It adds that the paper mill was pressed by the domestic and global competition and the paper demand decline due to the efficiency of technology.