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 […]

3.01.2012 – For the past eight years, D’arcy Main-Boyington has been helping Brewer businesses small and large find their own level of success. Brewer may have the Russian people to thank for its energetic and accomplished Director of Economic Development. If they hadn’t thrown off the yoke of Communist rule during D’arcy Main-Boyington’s senior year […]

3.01.2012 – The new Brewer Community School is the largest pre-K to eighth grade school in the state, and, many argue, the greenest school, too.   In 2005, the city of Brewer had had enough. They needed a new K-8 school and they needed it badly. The schools they were using—Capri Street, State Street, Washington Street, […]

  2.20.2012 – The synthetic drug bath salts now can be found in every state in the nation, but there are places — such as the Bangor region — where police have plenty of hands-on experience with users of the dangerous drug. Stories about bath salts consumers who had overdosed or poisoned themselves appeared almost […]

2.02.2012 – There’s a certain symmetry in a former school becoming a library. The School Street School, on the corner of School Street and South Main Street, now houses the Brewer Public Library. The library moved there in 2007 after out-growing its former space at 24 Union St. One result of this change is that […]

2.01.2012 – Crews at Cianbro’s Eastern Manufacturing Facility in Brewer are preparing to deliver the latest shipment of Maine-produced electrical rooms to Long Harbour, Newfoundland, on behalf of an international mining company that is establishing a nickel processing plant in that region, Cianbro announced Wednesday. Loading of the modules onto a barge at the Cianbro […]

1.27.2012 – A view of the starting point of Brewer’s trail system. The trail will begin at the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge by the Muddy Rudder and head downriver to Hardy Street. But future plans will build a trail running almost the entire length of Brewer’s river frontage, and eventually encircle the entire city. Before this […]

9.12.2011 – A local business that has been run by the same family for four generations was named the city’s business of the year at Brewer Days, a three-day hometown celebration held over the weekend. Gold Star Cleaners took home the business honor and the citizen of the year award went to Lester Young, who […]

5.26.2011 – City officials heard last week that $300,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds will be heading to town in August to help low- to moderate-income residents improve their homes. “Brewer was one of only six communities statewide to get the funds,” Ron Harriman, a consultant for the grant program, said on Thursday. The […]

5.16.2011 – As it has for the previous nine years, the city of Brewer has held or lowered its mill rate, but unlike last year, it was able to do so without any painful cuts of services or personnel. “Last year we had a very difficult budget. We did maintain a flat mill rate, but […]