After peaking in the 1930s, the city’s fortunes have declined for the past seventy years. In a presentation to the city council Monday night on Berlin's economic and demographic challenges, Josh Knox said as the Great Depression hit, the city’s boom times came to a close.

The decline in the local economy can be traced to the end of the local paper mill’s dominance of the paper industry. A surplus of labor lead to a drop in population, employment, and wages. The cycle has created ...

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