By Elna Seabrooks
Staff Writer
HOULTON — Leads and official information in the death of 19-year-old Holly Boutilier are scarce since her body was found by an unidentified man near a makeshift shack Sunday near the Penobscot River in Bangor.
Police have not released the cause of death, but Bangor Police Lt. Tim Reid has said the former Old Town resident was a homicide victim.
Last seen, reportedly, in the downtown waterfront area on Sunday, Boutilier may have been homeless. Dennis Marble, director of the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter did not know if the young woman was, indeed, homeless. He would only say he had “a vague impression that he may have seen her out on the street.”
A female family member who declined giving her name, would not comment on whether or not the young woman was, in fact, homeless. However, the relative did confirm that Boutilier was “a former Old Town resident who had attended the Southern Aroostook Community School for her senior year in 2007-08, but had not graduated from the school.”
Temporary workers at LP
NEW LIMERICK — A few bright lights have pierced the gloomy cloud of the recession for six production workers after they were called back to work last Tuesday by the Louisiana Pacific (LP) plant in New Limerick.
“They were hired on a temporary basis because we’ve had a little run up in production. I can’t tell how long that will last,” said Mary Cohn, corporate affairs manager for the company.
LP, which manufactures home-building products, has been hit hard by the recession’s slowdown in housing starts and has had several layoffs. LP reported a second-quarter operating loss of more than $32 million.
