Scout’s project benefits Brewer Public Library – When Mason Duplissie puts his mind to something, he gets it done. The 15-year-old incoming sophomore at Brewer High School plays 11 instruments, sings in the chorus, and competes in mock trial, all while remaining an honor student.

Bus cutting demo draws crowd to N.H. Bragg – Bangor’s and Brewer’s finest went saw-to-saw with Massachusetts car-demolition experts during the open house held Thursday, June 28 at N.H. Bragg & Sons in Bangor.

New cruiser camera system gives Brewer police 360-degree eye on suspects – There are two sides to every story, but with five digital cameras recording the scene there is little doubt about where the truth lies.

Brewer moves toward creating public safety director position as fire chief retires – It works for Hampden, Holden and Westbrook, and city officials think that having a public safety director to oversee both the police and fire departments will work for Brewer, too.

6.09.2012 – AUGUSTA, Maine – Gov. Paul LePage unveiled Maine’s first officially designated “business-friendly” communities Wednesday morning, giving the title to nine towns and cities around the state. Nineteen communities had been nominated for the new program but only Augusta, Bath, Biddeford, Brewer, Bucksport, Guilford, Lincoln, Saco and Sanford made the cut. Two of the […]

5.12.2012 – Some of the hundreds of volunteers who removed more than 4 tons of trash during Saturday’s morning cleanup of the Penobscot River and other waterways in Brewer actually found “treasure.” “I found an old Chevy moon hubcap from the 1920s,” City Councilor Kevin O’Connell said. “Two years ago I got a ceramic license […]

  4.09.2012 – A Japanese man with a love of hand-sewn moccasins — made using techniques that have been passed down from one generation of shoemakers to the next — traveled halfway across the world to find a Maine cobbler to make him a pair. “A knock came on the door and it was a […]

3.04.2012 – State lawmakers have banned 21 different components used to make synthetic bath salts drugs and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is working to federally ban the three main components, but that is not enough, Brewer police Chief Perry Antone is saying. “They can alter one molecule and it changes the name to skirt […]

3.28.2012 – Machias Savings Bank has designed its newest building to align with the times and how businesses and individual customers do banking nowadays, bank officials said. The new Wilson Street location is the bank’s 14th branch. The line of tellers all situated in a row behind a security wall with their individual bank drawers has […]

3.28.2012 – City leaders are finally ready to present official sketch plans for its long-planned Brewer Business and Commerce Park, a 28-lot commercial subdivision off Wiswell Road. “We are moving forward,” D’arcy Main-Boyington, Brewer’s economic development director, said recently. At the same time, neighboring officials are just beginning to map out protected areas for the […]