BREWER, Maine — A longtime law enforcement official is hanging up his badge, according to city officials.

BREWER, Maine — Decreases within the school budget have helped to offset increases in the municipal and county budgets that result in a slight increase in the overall draft budget but a projected flat tax rate, Brewer city and school officials said Tuesday.

The preliminary $34.6 million combined budget for fiscal year 2017-18 “maintains a stable mill rate of $21.52 despite the loss of more than $205,000 in tax revenue due to the increase in Homestead Exemption and a $33,300, or 3.7 percent, rise in the [Penobscot] County tax assessment,” City Manager Steve Bost told the Brewer City Council.

BREWER, Maine — A woman allegedly threatening to jump from the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge on Monday evening was pulled to safety by Brewer police, according to a police official.

BREWER, Maine — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins has good things to say about Mason’s Brewing Co.’s Farmhouse Saison.

The City of Brewer is required by its Maine Department of Environmental Protection Stormwater Discharge Permit to perform Public Education and Outreach Programs to raise awareness that polluted stormwater runoff is the most significant source of water quality problems for Maine waters.

BREWER, Maine — Alison Keane prefers to call herself president and founder of Logical Sip Cafe & Bakery instead of owner.

The two words mean more to her.

Brewer, Maine – It goes without saying that designing a 54,000-square-foot apartment building to meet certification requirements of the Passive House Institute U.S. isn’t something you do at the last minute. Except that’s more or less what happened after Gunnar Hubbard took Erin Cooperrider out to lunch.

BREWER, Maine — Mason’s Brewing Co. on Hardy Street will start to brew beer Thursday, so on Wednesday fellow brewer, Brother Don of the Friars’ Brewhouse in Bucksport, blessed the city’s newest brewery and its workers.

BREWER, Maine — When Ken and Jo-Ann Arbo moved into their home in Eddington 22 years ago, they thought they found the perfect place to live.

“I hunt right there. I fish out there. I snowmobile out there,” Ken Arbo said of the woods and fields near the couple’s home. “That is why we moved out there.”

Now the Arbos face the real possibility of moving again.

Many area residents have had questions about the I-395 Connector Project since the Bangor Daily News article of March 26, 2016, appeared.