Penobscot Frozen Foods, Inc.

• Repayment Uncertain for Suppliers

PRESQUE ISLE - Growers and suppliers at the Maine Potato Board meeting last week were given few options for recovering money owed to them by Penobscot Frozen Foods Inc., the Belfast company facing foreclosure. Some Aroostook County firms supply produce to the company, which also has a plant in Washburn.

• Bangor Daily News
• April 28, 2004

• Penobscot Frozen Foods Faces Auction

BELFAST - Penobscot Frozen Foods Inc., a processor of potato specialty foods on the city's waterfront for more than 50 years, is facing foreclosure. On Wednesday, Key Corporate Capital Inc. published a notice in the Bangor Daily News of its intent to sell the company's properties in Belfast and Washburn at public auction on April 29.

• Bangor Daily News
• April 08, 2004

• Bid of $1.8m Buys Potato Processor County Firm to Run Belfast, Washburn Plants

County Super Spuds Inc. of Mars Hill was the lone bidder for Penobscot Frozen Foods Inc.'s extensive assets. Owned by the McCrum family, the company has been a longtime potato supplier to Penobscot Frozen Foods' founding family, the Starretts. My family has done business with the Starrett brothers since 1981, and we're really looking forward to having the Starrett brothers remain part of the business," Jay McCrum said after Thursday's auction on the plant's grounds.

• Bangor Daily News
• April 30, 2004

• Processor Facing Foreclosure Auction

BELFAST - Longtime Belfast potato processor Penobscot Frozen Foods Inc. still faces a foreclosure auction on Thursday. As of Tuesday, Penobscot's two industrial properties in Belfast, a plant in the Aroostook County town of Washburn, as well as the business itself, were scheduled to go on the auction block to satisfy a bank debt, a bank official said.

• Bangor Daily News
• April 28, 2004

• Notice: First Circuit Local Rule 36.2(B)6 States Unpublished Opinions May Be Cited Only in Related Cases. Robert F. Scott, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Central Maine Power Company, Et Al., Defendants, Appellees., 977 F.2d 566 (1st Cir. 1992)

...See, e.g., Larrabee v. Penobscot Frozen Foods, Inc., 486 A.2d 97, 99-100 (Me. 1984)...

• Federal Circuits

• Penobscot Frozen Foods Files for Bankruptcy

BANGOR - Penobscot Frozen Foods of Belfast, a longtime processor of frozen potato products until its buildings and land were sold at an April auction, filed for bankruptcy Tuesday, citing debts of $5.8 million. The defunct 50-year-old processing business, owned by Rick Starrett and his family, filed for Chapter 7 or dissolution of operations.

...County Super Spuds Inc. of Mars Hill, which purchased Penobscot Frozen Fo...

• Bangor Daily News
• September 15, 2004

• Leak Leaves Businesses Out in the Cold ; Dozens of Them Are Stretched Financially As Their Embargoed Products Sit in Frozen Storage.

With the next blueberry harvest months away, the growers who own the Sunrise County Wild Blueberry co-op in Cherryfield are looking for a way to replace a year's worth of stored fruit. The company is among almost two dozen Maine businesses that are feeling a financial pinch because of an ammonia leak in January at Americold Logistics in Portland. The state says that millions of pounds of frozen food at the facility has been contaminated and must be destroyed or proven to be safe.

...Since then, three companies - Barber Foods, Kraft Foods and RFS Ltd. - have destroyed their s... elsewhere in the United States, including a $740,000 fine for a facility in Milwaukie, Ore.,...PENOBSCOT FROZEN FOODS, BELFAST: POTATO SKINS, STUFFED POTAT...

• Portland Press Herald
• April 08, 2010

• Va. Trucker Refuses to Deliver Potatoes Until Payoff Obtained

BELFAST - The owner of a Virginia trucking company says a recently sold Belfast potato processor owes her more than $34,000. So she is holding three truckloads of frozen spuds hostage. Diane Tranks, who operates Seven Hills Express Inc. of Forest, Va., said she has been unable to get payment from the new owner of the assets of Penobscot Frozen Foods.

• Bangor Daily News
• May 18, 2004

• On the Move

NEW FACES * Aaron Harris joined Verrill Dana, LLP as a marketing assistant.

... 25 years of law enforcement experience, including budgeting, strategic planning and operations manag... experience and was previously with Penobscot McCrum LLC. PROMOTIONS. * Andy Davis, a certified ...; treasurer and director of Sure Winner Foods, a distributor of ice cream and frozen foods in Sa...

• Portland Press Herald
• April 05, 2011

• No Grounds Found in Rights Panel Cases

AUGUSTA - The Maine Human Rights Commission ruled Monday that no reasonable grounds existed in the following cases. Complaints initially are investigated by a commission staff member, then are brought before the full commission. The commission identifies only home states, not towns, for out-of-state complainants. Eileen Levesque, Van Buren, v. Rite Aid, Van Buren.

...Heidi Ketcham, Clifton, v. Penobscot County Sheriff's Department, Bangor. Janet Greene,...Marden's Surplus and Salvage Inc., Calais. Christina Henderson, Houlton, v. Communi...Penobscot Frozen Foods, Belfast. Lainie Wintrup, Connecticut, v. Un...

• Bangor Daily News
• January 26, 2005