Brewer News

Brewer News


Brewer facility gets lucrative deal

10.18.2007 – When Cianbro’s Eastern Manufacturing Facility begins operations in April, the 500 or so new employees will have a pile of work to do. Cianbro, a Pittsfield construction company known around the state and the nation, has won a multimillion-dollar, 15-month contract to construct building modules — prefabricated, self-standing building skeletons for a large […]

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Expedition relics near at hand in Bangor, Brewer

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. Local folks […]

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Remnants of major naval defeat found

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 […]

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Cianbro plans to safeguard mill site findings

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 […]

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Cianbro touts Brewer mill site progress

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 […]

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New England Construction

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 […]

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Cianbro module facility site plan approved

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 […]

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Plans nearly completed for 2nd EMHS building

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 […]

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Cianbro cleans up: Ex-Eastern Fine site major project

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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