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When the Frazer Papers Pulp Mill closes in Berlin next month, the local economy is expected to take a big hit as some 200 people lose their jobs.

Public Service Company of New Hampshire and a private equity capital company have expressed interest in taking over the site for a power plant.

Those projects, if approved, could provide some jobs.

And the state's Workforce Opportunity Council is applying for a $1 million federal grant to help workers being laid off from the Berlin pulp mill.

Across the region, the closing of textile and paper mills has caused some of the highest rates of per capita job losses in the country.

And studies suggest that helping displaced workers regain a foothold in the job market is no easy matter.

MPBN's Jeanne Baron Reports from Portland.

Seventy years ago today, the first unplanned television event was broadcast -- it was a fire in Camden, New Jersey. On day one of Turn Off Your TV Week, we'll look at the impact of some of the good and BAD programming we were raised on. Our guest is Profesor Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

We'll also hear what's real and not real about how Hollywood portrays Washington, DC, in a piece by producer Richard Paul. The story comes to us from PRX, The Public Radio Exchange.