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 […]

2.14.2010 – The amount of trash residents are throwing out for curbside collection has been reduced by half while recycling has quadrupled under two new city programs, Finance Director Karen Fussell said Monday. City officials expected good numbers under their new zero-sort recycling program, which was put into place in July 2010, and the pay-as-you-throw […]

2.01.2010 – City officials learned last week that a $1.28 million earmark is heading to town to help develop the Brewer Business and Commerce Park, and today the first tenant is presenting its plans for a liquid methane energy plant to the planning board. Maine Liquid Methane Fuels LLC is proposing a liquid methane fuels […]

1.11.2010 – Company leaders at Brewer Automotive Components have known for months that its parent firm planned to merge BAC with sister company Wytheville Technologies Inc. in Virginia, but they did not make the announcement official until Friday. “The newly merged company will be known as Somic America Inc.,” David Keane, vice president of the […]

1.03.2010 – Maine Liquid Methane Fuels LLC is submitting plans today to build a liquid methane fuels energy plant to provide customers in the region with a cleaner and cheaper alternative to fossil fuels, a company official said. The plant, estimated to cost $50 million to build, will be similar to ones in Massachusetts and […]

First Maine cleanup project selected for The Phoenix award 11.19.2009 – There are empty hulls of once prosperous paper making and textile mills all over Maine and New England that were abandoned decades ago and left to deteriorate with no hope of a future. City leaders did not want that to happen with the Eastern […]

$3.15 million to help replace deteriorating wooden cribwork 11.05.2009 – The banks of the Penobscot River have been slowly eroding over the past century and have started to threaten the city’s wastewater treatment plant, city leaders say. To combat the shoreline erosion, city officials applied for federal stimulus funds earlier this year to replace the […]