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Trail of ‘forever chemicals’ leads to Maine paper mills
The manufacturing industry, which has used PFAS for decades, faces a reckoning as the state grapples with soil and water contamination.
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Nathan Saunders, whose well was contaminated by sludge that was spread on nearby fields, poses Thursday in front of the field located directly across the street from his home in Fairfield. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
FAIRFIELD For 32 of its 33 years in this quiet corner of central Maine farm country, the Saunders family has reveled in the solitude, the wildlife and the views that stretch 40 miles to the coastal mountains on clear days.
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FARMINGTON Turrin Mondor, 19, spends an average of 30 hours a week at the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies on Main Street, opening and closing the store, keeping track of inventory, organizing credit card statements and cash deposits, and helping customers.
Turrin Mondor poses at the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies on Main Street in Farmington where they have a 300-hour funded position through the federal Workforce Innovations and Opportunities Act. Mondor is the first person in Franklin County to receive the youth-focused category of these federal funds.
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This is Mondor’s second job, funded through the federal Workforce Innovations and Opportunities Act implemented by Congress in 2014. The act supersedes the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and was passed to grow local economies and reduce workforce barriers for specific populations such as youth and dislocated workers.