Speaking about the work of Feeding Hope Food Pantry is pantry and cafe director Sarah Swift, center, as Laura Boucher of the Northern Region Granite United Way (dark scarf) and Greg Swift (right) listen. (LISA D. CONNELL PHOTO)
Speaking about the work of Feeding Hope Food Pantry is pantry and cafe director Sarah Swift, center, as Laura Boucher of the Northern Region Granite United Way (dark scarf) and Greg Swift (right) listen. (LISA D. CONNELL PHOTO)
BERLIN — As employers and employees left the city with the closure of the paper mills and the once vaunted Isaacson Structural Steel dissolved into bankruptcy, so did financial contributions to area nonprofits, especially the Northern Region of the United Way.
“That element of giving into the community has largely dried up,” Mayor Paul Grenier said during the City Council’s work session Monday night.
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