BERLIN — The Androscoggin Valley Chamber of Commerce is exploring building a welcome/visitors center that it would own and operate.
Meeting with the city council Monday night, Mark Belanger of the chamber stressed it is just a concept at this point. He said the chamber would need to obtain grant funding to build the center.
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