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Commission votes to close Maine's Brunswick Navy station

by debwire | August 25, 2005 at 05:22 pm

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BRUNSWICK, Maine The celebratory mood elsewhere in New England isn't being shared in Brunswick, Maine.

A federal commission has voted to shut down the Brunswick Naval Air Station. That was a more severe action than recommended by the Pentagon, which wanted to scale back the base but keep it open.

At two regional sites, elation; at a third, resignation

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debwire

at 13:10 on August 27th, 2005

Maine politicians praise workers after yard victory

KITTERY, Maine — The message was clear from the Maine delegation
Friday: it was the workers who made saving Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
possible.

Gov.
John Baldacci thanked workers for keeping their chins up and pressing
on with their work despite living with the fact that the Navy yard was
on the Base Realignment and Closure list.

debwire

at 13:18 on August 27th, 2005

Commission vote on Limestone is a win for Maine workers

For the second time in two days, the Base
Realignment and Closure Commission handed Maine a victory Thursday,
voting to not only keep the military accounting office in Limestone
open, but expand it.

debwire

at 06:45 on August 28th, 2005

In Maine, wistful look at the past, and future

Built in 1943, the 3,000-acre Naval Air Station is the second-largest
employer in Brunswick, a coastal town of 22,000 between Portland and
Augusta. The base is home to four active and two reserve aircraft
squadrons trained in aerial surveillance. It hosts 2,600 active-duty
members of the military, and it employs 800 civilians, according to the
task force that fought for its survival. Almost 6,000 military family
members live in the area.

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