Brewer News

From left, Leonard Davis, 10, gets help with mixing his paint from Sue Ann Gaitings, the gifted and talented coordinator at the Brewer Community School.

Hunting buddies Ryan Stevens and Travis Hafford, who were the focus of a weekend search involving the Maine Warden Service and dozens of volunteers.

Edna Brewer Middle School received a new look over the Veterans Day weekend, when artists and families mounted 16 mosaic renditions of California native wildflowers to the exterior wall of the school's courtyard under the direction of mosaic artist Rachel Rodi.

The critically-acclaimed Canadian-American indie rock six-piece the Arcade Fire will bring their "Reflektor" tour to Darling's Waterfront Pavilion on Wednesday, Aug. 20, in one of the earliest and biggest show announcements in Waterfront Concert history.

The Brewer School Committee, which recently approved a policy change regarding pregnant students and the Good Samaritan Agency's Teen Parent Education Program , modified it again Monday night to charge sending districts for their students enrolled in the alternative education program.

Thom Tardiff of Brewer carries his daughter Claire, 4, while trying to pick out a tree at the Piper Mountain Christmas tree farm in Newburgh Monday.

The Housing Authority of the City of Brewer has partnered with Penquis Child Development to provide affordable child care for low-to moderate-income families residing in the greater Bangor/Brewer area that are participating in educational or job training activities and/or are currently employed.

Please don't look for Annie L. Henderson at Mountain View Cemetery - if there is anything left of her skeleton, it is in the briny deep of the Penobscot River.

I did it, you did it, we all did it. I feel no shame. My husband and I ate leftover turkey out of a Ziploc bag for a midnight snack last night.

State officials have scheduled two public meetings to get feedback from fishermen about how Maine should reduce its elver landings next spring.

Hugh Kelly started tying flies when he was seven. His father was a Maine guide in the Rangeley area and passed the tradition on to his son.

Bangor Ballet will present "Nutcracker in a Nutshell" danced by children, for children, in Brewer and Bucksport.

Members of Lander University's Dance Company take a break from rehearsing for their performance at Lander on Nov. 24 and 25. The event is free and open to the public.

BREWER, Maine - To start a discussion about drug and alcohol addiction in the area, organizers at the Bangor Area Recovery Network are hosting a free film Wednesday evening at the Brewer Performing Arts Center titled "The Anonymous People."

When Cynthia Rollins began making jackets for dogs in 2000, she was responding to the plight of her two Chihuahua-mix dogs who needed something that fit and was warm to wear during cold Maine winters.

After bringing a craft fair to the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Nov. 2-3, the United Maine Craftsmen has scheduled its 39th Annual Thanksgiving Arts and Crafts Show to be held Nov. 30-Dec. 1 at the Brewer Auditorium on Wilson Street.

Brewer Mayor Kevin O'Connell thanks City Councilor Arthur "Archie" Verow for his two terms on the council at his last council meeting, Nov. 18, 2013, while former councilor Larry Doughty takes a picture of the two.

One of the earliest and noisiest signals of the holiday season will hit Bangor's storefronts on Nov. 23 this year, as the Salvation Army starts an annual fundraising campaign that sustains most of what it does through the next year.

Elsie Gawler, co-owner of North Branch Farm in Monroe, carries bags of onions into the basement of Food AND Medicine in Brewer in preparation for the 11th Annual Solidarity Harvest, which expects to distribute more than 1,000 Thanksgiving baskets for families in hard times.

A 57-year-old local woman was arrested last week on operating under the influence and driving with a suspended or revoked license charges after someone who thought she looked intoxicated at a local market called the police.