10.06.2007 – Note: All U.S. military wrecks are the property of the government and it is a federal crime to disturb them in any way without prior permission. Anyone caught in possession of or in the process of collecting historic artifacts from the Penobscot River associated with the Penobscot Expedition will be prosecuted. History is […]

10.06.2007 – The craftsmanship of brothers Josiah and John Brewer, the city’s founding fathers, is believed to be visible today on the property once known as Brewer’s Cove – the defunct Eastern Fine Paper Co. mill site. The remains of a centuries-old cribbed-and-planked tidal dam and gate can be seen at the mouth of the […]

9.15.2007 – Business and civic leaders celebrated the anticipated rebirth of the former Eastern Fine Paper Co. site Friday, touting the project as an example of what is possible when corporations and governments work cooperatively on economic development. The atmosphere at Friday’s gathering at the defunct mill seemed more like a pep rally than a […]

8.13.2007 – A defunct paper mill in Brewer, Maine, a city of 9,000 along Maine’s Penobscot River, will be resurrected as a modular construction facility providing hundreds of jobs and a boost for the local economy under a plan announced by Brewer officials. Pittsfield, Maine, contractor Cianbro and South Brewer Redevelopment LLC have signed a […]

8.08.2007 – The Planning Board unanimously approved site plans on Monday for Cianbro’s new module manufacturing facility at the defunct Eastern Fine Paper Co. mill site that is expected to create 500 or more well-paying jobs. The panel’s approval is a huge step in the massive multimillion-dollar undertaking to change the 100-plus-year-old industrial site, which […]

7.19.2007 – The approximately 90,000-square-foot treatment center will sit beside the five-story administrative headquarters for EMHS, and it’s one of four buildings planned for the 72-acre Brewer Professional Center campus. The CancerCare building design is inviting, and the rooms will be sunny, as the building is planned to be situated on the hill with a […]

6.23.2007 – Cianbro Corp.’s ambitious plan to bring several hundred highly paid workers back to the former Easter Fine Paper site in Brewer has the potential to become one of the region’s most significant economic development endeavors in years. But first the company will have to complete one of the largest industrial cleanup projects ever […]

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6.07.2007 – The announcement Friday that Cianbro Corp. of Pittsfield and South Brewer Redevelopment, LLC, will work together to complete a purchase and sale agreement that could create more than 500 jobs at the former Eastern Fine Paper mill certainly is cause for rejoicing. Cianbro has indicated its intent to convert the mill site to […]

6.06.2007 – About 500 people drive to the Portland waterfront every day to work on Cianbro Corp.’s project converting two sulfur carriers into two of the world’s largest offshore service vessels. Nearly 75 percent of those workers come from north of Augusta. So while businesses and city officials in the Brewer area are celebrating Cianbro’s […]