BERLIN — Local and state officials are working to see if there is a way of financing North Country Growers to reopen it and re-employ area residents after workers learned near the end of last week that payroll could not be met.
As of last Friday, the plant, which grows lettuce in state-of-the-art hydroponic greenhouses, is closed.
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