Winn’s busiest intersection features a shuttered convenience store, a takeout restaurant that has changed hands three times in the past five years and a post office that shares a building with several vacant apartments.

Residents of the Penobscot County town used to work for businesses in Lincoln or Millinocket, but mill closures there left jobs scarce.

Fewer than 400 people remain in Winn.

“There’s no interest in this town anymore,” Winn Selectman Robert Berry said.

The town first considered deorganizing — the process in which a municipality dissolves as an independent town and becomes part of Maine’s unorganized territory — in 2023, when no one ran for select board and the town office was unstaffed, which would have left the town unable to fulfill state requirements like audits and

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