Former Moosehead furniture plant reopening hits environmental snag

By Diana Bowley
BDN Staff

MONSON, Maine — The planned reopening of the former Moosehead Manufacturing Co. plant in Monson has hit an environmental snag that could endanger efforts to resume making furniture there.

Louise Jonaitis of Portland submitted a winning $1,050,000 bid at an August bankruptcy auction for the purchase of the business. But before any money changed hands, she learned there were some environmental questions involving barrels of unidentified chemicals that had been left on the property.

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