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 […]

7.06.2010 – When plans for Cianbro’s Eastern Manufacturing Facility were laid on the table in 2007, they included a commercial marina — paid for with a federal earmark — that other businesses in the area could use. Cianbro officials recently have decided to build the pier using company money and have reduced the scope of […]

6.22.2010 – Opening a new business is hard enough, but when the economy is down, it’s an even riskier investment. In the last year, 15 businesses — some well-established, some new — have made the gamble and opened along Wilson Street. “The city of Brewer is proud that even in tough economic times, business owners […]

5.01.2010 – The city’s finance director said she was nervous about a recent surveillance review of the city’s bond rating, but apparently she had nothing to worry about after hearing this week that the city’s bond rate actually improved by two levels. “Given the difficult times, I wasn’t sure what to expect,” Finance Director Karen […]

2.19.2010 – A decade ago, if somebody got hurt in a car accident on Wilson Street, the advanced life support ambulance would come from Bangor, fighting traffic along the way. That all changed when city leaders created a then-controversial public-private partnership — the first of its kind in the region — with Eastern Maine Healthcare […]