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 […]

4.19.2011 – A Brewer man who crossed the river in 1911 to fight the massive fire that consumed the Queen City’s downtown was the lone firefighter to die in the line of duty that fateful day in what is now known as Bangor’s Great Fire. The Brewer Fire Department will lay a memorial brick on Wednesday […]

2.15.2011 – City officials say dozens of local low- to moderate-income homeowners have been able to improve their homes thanks to Community Development Block Grants issued to Brewer over the past five years. The problem is there is a lot more work to do, which is why the city is applying for more CDBG funds, […]

2.02.2011 – 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 […]

2.01.2011 – Bangor resident Chad Walton wants everyone to go to Google and search “shipping container homes.” Walton purchased the former Lemforder building Monday and soon will be making modular buildings — homes, offices, dorms, emergency shelters and others — using recycled, prefabricated shipping containers. “It’s crazy what we can do with them,” he said […]

1.21.2011 – The city is asking residents what they want to do with three elementary schools and Brewer Middle School once the new pre-kindergarten-through-eighth-grade Brewer Community School opens in the fall. The first of two public meetings was held Thursday and another one is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday at Washington Street School. The new […]

1.19.2011 – After Brewer, Maine, lost a manufacturer due to high electricity costs, it became obvious how a new business park in town could be made “indispensable.” “The immediate thing that came to mind was energy,” said D’arcy Main-Boyington, director of economic development for the City of Brewer. The cities of Brewer and Old Town, […]

1.18.2011 – Steel and other materials for a new 13-module contract began to arrive at Cianbro’s Eastern Manufacturing facility on Monday, Peter Vigue, chairman and CEO of Cianbro Corp., said Tuesday morning. Vigue and Cianbro Vice President Joe Cote, who is general manager of the South Brewer module manufacturing facility, announced the Pittsfield-based company has […]

12.14.2010 – The Fire Department soon will have two new pieces of electronic equipment for its ambulance, thanks to funding from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, or the FIRE Act. “We applied for a grant to get a power stretcher for the ambulance,” Fire Chief Gary Parent said Tuesday. “You just push a button […]