BREWER, Maine — Construction began Wednesday on what’s expected to be one of the largest passive housing projects in the United States. Village Centre Apartments, a 48-unit affordable housing complex, is being built at the former State Street School site. Crews have been doing abatement work there since last year after the demolition of the […]

BREWER, Maine — A much-anticipated natural foods grocery store opened its doors to locavore-minded shoppers Tuesday in Brewer.

Tiller & Rye soft-opened a week ago to test store systems, allowing shoppers a sneak preview. They held an official grand opening Tuesday.

Tiller & Rye, the region’s first local grocer, will host its grand opening on Tuesday, April 7th at noon at their location on 20 South Main Street, directly across the street from High Tide Restaurant.

Posted March 23, 2015, at 2:21 p.m. Brewer, ME – The Brewer High School students involved in Orange Chaos — the school’s FIRST Robotics Team, an after-school activity that lets students gain extra skills in engineering and computer programming — are extremely proud of their robots. They’ve built six of them so far, and have entered three of them into the FIRST Robotics Competition, a national competition for high school robotics teams.

Posted February 27, 2015 Brewer, Maine – Revenue Sharing letter from the Brewer City Council to the Maine State Legislature

Posted Jan. 25, 2015, at 6:25 a.m. If you make it they will come, especially if what you’re making is warm, creamy hot chocolate on a cold December day. That’s a good thing for four Brewer girls who have spent the past several years trying to raise money and awareness for cancer research. The girls, Abby Sargent, 11, […]

Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce hosts 1,000 for dinner at annual awards YouTube Video – Ben Sprague & Jerry Goss are awarded the Catherine Lebowitz Award For Public Service at the 2015 Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce Awards. January 22, 2015 Brewer, Maine — More than 1,000 area business and community leaders gathered Wednesday night to […]

December 3, 2014 BREWER, Maine — When asked what they thought of having their faces plastered on the side of a 28-foot box truck, the Geaghan brothers responded with self-deprecating humor. “I’m not convinced this is going to help sales at all,” joked Peter Geaghan. His brother Larry Geaghan said he’d like to see the […]

December 3, 2014 BREWER, Maine – Cities across the nation long overlooked their riverfronts’ economic and recreational potential. The result can be seen today in abandoned industrial properties and contaminated sites that line the rivers winding through a number of American cities. Many of those cities entirely left their rivers out of the downtown development […]

November 26, 2014 BREWER, Maine — Much has been said of Bangor’s transformative growth during the past decade. But what about its neighbor across the river? Brewer’s expansion and development of its waterfront and business corridors has, on a smaller scale, mirrored that of its larger counterpart and is ongoing. City officials are ironing out […]