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A comprehensive plan that allows the towns of East Millinocket, Medway and Millinocket to collaborate more efficiently on economic development has been approved by the state Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry.
The Katahdin Region plan, at 255 pages, aims to create a collaboration that will help boost economic development in the region decimated in the last decade by two major mill closings, the Eastern Maine Development Corp., which helped develop the plan, said in a news release.
Collaborating regionally allows for cost efficiencies and more support of shared goals and strategies for the three Penobscot County towns, EMDC said.
The multijurisdictional 10-year plan, as opposed to the more common individual town or city plan, is the first in the state in nearly a decade to include more than one municipality, Tom Miragliuolo, a review coordinator at DACF, said.