RANGELEY — People expressed mixed emotions Wednesday during the second day of a three-day meeting about the possibility of a missile interceptor base being added to the 12,000-acre U.S. Navy’s survival, evasion, resistance and escape training facility in Redington Township. Some were dead set against the location in Maine or anywhere in the U.S., while […]
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Missile Defense Agency to hold meetings on potential Franklin County interceptor site
RANGELEY — The federal Missile Defense Agency is holding four meetings in Franklin County to seek input on environmental issues and other concerns that people may have if a potential missile interceptor site is located in Redington Township, near Rangeley. The U.S. Navy’s remote training school in the Rangeley Lakes area is one of four […]
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BIW puts new destroyer into the water
BATH — The largest destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy is getting into the water for the first time. Without fanfare, Maine’s Bath Iron Works on Monday began the process of floating the 610-foot-long Zumwalt from a dry dock in the Kennebec River. Eventually, tugboats will position the warship dockside, where shipbuilders will continue […]
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Pentagon to consider Franklin County site as potential missile interceptor site
REDINGTON TOWNSHIP — The U.S. Navy’s remote training school in the Rangeley Lakes area is one of five sites on the East Coast that the Missile Defense Agency is considering as a potential missile-interceptor site, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced Thursday. The Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape site in northern Franklin County will be studied […]