{"id":9061,"date":"2013-06-26T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2013-06-27T09:45:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T13:45:53","slug":"sadness-as-newton-falls-fine-paper-mill-dismantled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/06\/26\/sadness-as-newton-falls-fine-paper-mill-dismantled\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadness as Newton Falls Fine Paper mill dismantled"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: J. Stephen Conn<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s the end of a long story in the North Country: WWNY-TV is reporting on the dismantling of the Newton Falls Fine Paper Mill<\/a>. You may remember that the company Scotia Investments bought the mill a couple years ago but announced it wouldn’t reopen it, and would lay off its approximately 90 employees, back in 2011<\/a>. Later, they held an action for the mill and its contents, but WWNY reports that $2 million sale “to a mystery bidder” fell through (here’s a story on that sale, in 2013, from the Watertown Daily Times<\/a>.)\u00a0 Apparently trucks loaded with scrap metal are leaving the mill, and local officials are calling the scrapping operation “the end of the mill’s historic paper making era.”<\/p>\n

Fine Town Supervisor Mark Hall said the scrapping is “sad for the whole community. It’s gonna have a terrible effect on the community in the coming years.”<\/p>\n

Video from WWNY-TV on the scrapping operation<\/strong>
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