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Community wants movement on mill

March 12, 2010

EWEN — Residents and officials in Ontonagon County are looking for the community to band together to help save the former Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation mill. Prosecuting Attorney James Jessup has held meetings this week with community members to encourage people to write letters to a federal bankruptcy judge in hopes of saving the mill so it can be sold and used for something else, providing employment to area residents. In early February, the federal bankruptcy judge from Delaware ordered Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., a company in bankruptcy, to work with representatives of two communities where it has closed mills to discuss possible future uses for the properties, according to the Associated Press. Smurfit-Stone has closed mills in Montana and in Ontonagon, but the company refused to meet with community officials interested in finding other uses for the facilities.

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