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 […]

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 […]