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[email protected] FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 THIS WEEK’S QUOTE Committee to search for grants to fund mill clean up SELECTMEN HOPEFUL PROPERTY MAY SEE NEW LIFE AS PARK “Self-development BY KERENSA KONESNI ble left behind after a series expressed by what is now the – as is the case with the is a higher duty VILLAGER STAFF WRITER of owners removed the valu- Department of Energy and Belding site, the corporation THOMPSON — After clean able portions of its construc- Environmental Protection that retains responsibility than self-sacrifice.” up efforts were derailed by tion, leaving piles of bricks (DEEP) drew the process out, for the clean up and remedia- the downturn in the econo- and concrete behind a chain and with trucks on the tion of a site is often not pres- my, the site of the Belding- link fence near the heart of ground ready to begin clear- ent, if it exists at all. Corticelli Mill on Route 12 in the town. ing debris, the money to com- “The town is willing to find Thompson may be back on According to First plete the project privately ways to be creative but not to track to see clean up, remedi- Selectman Larry Groh, the ran out. According to Groh, take on the liability,” said ation and a change in the current owner of the site Scott owns the Belding- Kennedy. “So right now the INSIDE landscape. Andy Scott has said that he is Corticelli Mill free and clear.