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 […]

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 […]