The current women’s record holder plans world’s fastest thru hike on the famed AT Asheville,NC (PRWEB) May 26, 2011 Jennifer Pharr Davis, current holder of the Women’s Speed Record for the fastest thru hike of the Appalachian Trail, is headed back to the AT, hoping to make history by hiking away with the overall speed record. In June, Davis will hike from Mount Katahdin, Maine to Springer Mountain, Georgia.

By NICK SAMBIDES JR.; OF THE NEWS STAFF LEE - The communities of SAD 30 will remain among the approximately 25 towns of the proposed Regional School Unit 17, school officials said Thursday.

By NICK SAMBIDES JR.; OF THE NEWS STAFF MILLINOCKET - Another nine workers will be laid off by Friday at the paper mill on Katahdin Avenue as management continues the mill mothballing process, officials said Tuesday.

By NICK SAMBIDES JR.; OF THE NEWS STAFF MILLINOCKET - Referring to the indefinite shutdown of the Katahdin Paper mill as "totally unnecessary," Town Councilor Scott Gonya on Thursday called upon mill parent company Brookfield Asset Management to name former mill Manager Serge Sorokin chief executive officer of Katahdin Paper.

By NICK SAMBIDES JR.; OF THE NEWS STAFF MILLINOCKET - Gov. John Baldacci will hold a multibillion-dollar Toronto-based conglomerate to its promise to reopen the Katahdin Avenue mill before he acts on other options, he said Saturday.