Wiscasset Town Manager Dennis Simmons announced in a selectboard meeting April 2, Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill both houses of the Legislature passed and, as of now, $93 million of Maine Yankee property the state had found was tax-exempt as a.
Wiscasset has taken a two-pronged approach to its latest efforts to stop Maine Yankee’s tax exemption on parts of its nuclear waste storage facility. Town Manager Dennis Simmons, Selectboard Chair Sarah Whitfield and Selectman Terry Heller weighed.
Turning brownfields into assets helps communities promote revitalization. Priorities include former mills and an abandoned solvents manufacturing facility.