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 […]

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 […]