Community Projects
Flag to watch over new Medway Athletic Fields | It’s been a labor love 10 years in the making. George McLaughlin remembers watching his grandaughter playing a soccer game on a field that was practically under water. That sparked a journey to create fantastic athletic fields for Medway Middle School sports teams and host tournaments.
Welcome Mural | Local artist, Joy McEwen, wants to paint a mural highlighting the papermaking history of Millinocket on the visible side of Katahdin View Storage, LLC.- the brick building near the park on the corner of Central St. and Penobscot Ave. It’s going to honor the history of the river drivers and the paper mill, and be a beautiful welcome to all who drive by.
Latest News
MILLINOCKET – Creating the next generation of a river-driven power system will be the focus of a testing facility at One North, the former Great Northern Paper Mill site in Millinocket.
Portland-based Ocean Renewable Power Co. announced Monday it was partnering with Our Katahdin to create the testing center.
Ocean Renewable, known as ORPC, develops renewable power systems that harness energy from free-flowing rivers and tidal currents. Read more
Our Katahdin's 2021 Year in Review. Hear about the progress, challenges and way forward. Thank you for your engagement and support.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Our Katahdin a Brownfields Cleanup Grant in the sum of $500,000 to support redevelopment of Brownfields impacted by hazardous substances on the former Great Northern Paper mill in Millinocket, Maine.
OK is requesting information on qualifications from qualified environmental engineering/consulting firms to assist with implementation of the grant-funded cleanup.
Our Katahdin - RFP Research Building Brownfields Cleanup 2021
Topic: OK's EPA Brownfield Application Public Meeting
Time: Nov 15, 2021 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Grant Documents
Millinocket, ME. 6/5/2021 - Nautilus Data Technologies (“Nautilus”), a sustainable data center technology company, has announced plans to locate a data center at the former mill site in Millinocket, Maine. Nautilus and site owner Our Katahdin have executed a 99-year lease which clears the way for engineering, permitting and development to begin in Millinocket, effective immediately. The first phase of the $300 million project is expected to be operating by late 2022.
