Brewer News

Corporate sponsorship for the Fourth of July festivities have gone from making up 90% of the costs of the Bangor-Brewer July Fourth Parade to about 15% this year.

Eli Clein, 10, and his father Lee Clein of Bangor look at bicycles that were auctioned off through the Bangor Police Department on Saturday morning, June 27, 2009 in Bangor.

Singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves will perform two Bangor-area shows next week. Singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves may live deep in the heart of Texas now, but no one - including Cleaves himself - is allowed to forget his roots.

A Brewer High School junior was elected to the highest office at the 63rd session of Dirigo Girls State, which wrapped up Friday night at Husson University.

William Stanley, 52, of Bangor, owner of Greater Northern Paving Co., uses a roller to even the new asphalt at Ron's Cafe and Bakery in Brewer on Thursday afternoon.

Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Maine Middle Jun. 25--ORRINGTON, Maine-- Lt. Tim Kenney, who has fought fires in town for more than a quarter-century, went to work at UPS in Brewer on May 1 without a worry, but shortly after arriving fell to the ground unable to breathe.

Local police and banking officials say if you get scammed online, there's a good chance you'll never get your money back.

Brewer City Councilor Manley G. Debeck Jr. stated in his June 6 letter to the editor that the resolve I sponsored was "a measure to merge Bangor and Brewer into a single city." The resolve I sponsored for Brewer was to work cooperatively with Bangor in an effort to discover ways to save money for the taxpayers of Brewer and Bangor.

June 19th marks a special day in African American history. Known as Juneteenth, it's the day slaves were freed in 1865.

NEWS CENTER'S Feed ME Food Drive will be held on Saturday, June 20th. NEWS CENTER crews will be broadcasting live outside the Hannaford Supermarkets at Wilson Street in Brewer, Sabbatus Street in Lewiston, Forest Avenue in Portland and Main Street in Sanford from 7 AM to 2 PM.

Jeff Barnes of Bangor leaves the voting booth Tuesday after marking his ballot at the Bangor Civic Center polling station.

The sunshine, music, food and fashion were like a magnet Saturday, drawing people from all over the region to downtown for the second annual West Market Festival.

South Main Street in Brewer is closed in front of Save-a-Lot due to an accident.

Police in Brewer closed the high school Tuesday morning and evacuated students to a nearby skating rink after getting a report of a bomb threat.

Students at Brewer High School were sent home for the day on Tuesday after a bomb threat was found written on an inside wall at the school.

The Bangor waterfront at night was a dark maze a century ago. Along the Penobscot River and up the Kenduskeag Stream were unlit alleyways leading from the main thoroughfares to wharves that abruptly ended at the black watera s edge.

BREWER, Maine a ' Police have closed South Main Street around 2:30 p.m. Friday due to a motor vehicle accident in front of Save-A-Lot that resulted in a utility pole being knocked down.

An anonymous donor has stepped forward to save Brewer's K-9 program. Chief Perry Antone announced last week that because of budget cuts, the department would have to suspend the program.

Researchers and clinicians in the Bangor area are taking part in a new national initiative to develop a consistent, comprehensive approach to preventing, assessing and treating brain injury in infants and young children.

Brewer baseball coach David Morris was one of seven educators statewide honored in Augusta recently for their efforts in helping to meet the needs of children and at-risk youth in their communities.