Tagged: Gorham

A North Country firm has been fined $192,000 over concerns about the potential for oil polluting the Androscoggin River.

In six years a North Country group has helped low and moderate income families get more than two million dollars in tax refunds. Now the free service is underway again. NHPR’s Chris Jensen reports.

Once again the Family Resource Center of Gorham is offering free tax preparation for families and individuals earning no more than $58,000.

Last year a record 422 returns were prepared by trained volunteers.

That gave some for North Country residents a fiscal boost.

“We brought in a total of over $570,000 in tax refunds.”

That’s Miranda Bergmeier. She’s with the center.

There was another savings, too. Unlike commercial firms there’s no charge.

The Center for Public Integrity has a new report on pollution problems in New England including the Old Town Fuel & Fiber, which is owned by the same company as Gorham Paper and Tissue.

“The factory, Old Town Fuel & Fiber, a paper mill, has over the past five years racked up $267,000 in federal air pollution fines for releasing illegal amounts of carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and methanol into the air above its facility,” according to the report. (http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/01/12/7851/states-slow-act-against-new-england-polluters).