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 […]

11.30.2010 – Maine Liquid Methane Fuels LLC and city officials say they have gone through nearly all the state and federal red tape required to establish the state’s first liquid methane fuels plant, which is scheduled for construction next year. The plant will produce transport and heating fuels. “Things are going quite well,” Sasa Cook, […]

9.08.2010 – Cianbro officials are announcing that the company has won a contract to construct 22 building modules at its Eastern Manufacturing Facility for a Newfoundland facility, which means hundreds of jobs for local workers. “We are very proud to have been selected to manufacture the electric room modules” for a Vale nickel processing operation, […]

8.20.2010 – Brewer City Councilor Manley DeBeck has worked to bring free prescription discount cards to residents. The cards are offered to member communities in the National League of Cities and are available in Brewer at City Hall, the public safety building, library, and Brewer Auditorium. The cards are accepted at all of the city’s […]