Brewer News

A public supper featuring baked beans, casseroles, salads, pickles, roll and pie, will offer seatings at 5 and 5:30 p.m., Saturday, March 15, at North Brewer-Eddington Methodist Church, Route 9 on the bend.

Storytime will be "A Sign of Spring" 10:30-11:15 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, March 18 and 19, at 100 South Main St., Brewer Public Library.

The Mallett Brothers Band will take the stage on Saturday, April 26th, 7:30pm at the Brewer Performing Arts Center located at 92 Pendleton Street in Brewer.

Nine individuals and two organizations in the Greater Bangor region are being honored as "Real Heroes" by the Pine Tree Chapter of American Red Cross of Maine for going above and beyond in service to others.

Reading through the approved "souvenir programme" of The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II from June 2, 1953, with its "Genealogical Table Showing the Descent of the Crown," reminded me that both the Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, are descended from Queen Victoria.

BANGOR, Maine - More than 80 community members are expected to participate in the third annual Way of the Cross Community Procession at 1 p.m. Palm Sunday, April 13. Last year, the event drew nearly 800 spectators as the procession moved through a 1.6-mile route from St. Joseph Church on North Main Street in Brewer to St. John Church on York Street ... (more)

A digital copy of one of 75 cartes de visite stolen from Bangor Public Library. All 75 images, along with posters and a few other materials, have been recovered, police say.

The Community Mass Care and Emergency Assistance course will be offered May 28th and 29th, 2014 at Jeff's Catering in Brewer.

On Sunday, I played hooky from the Brewer Cabin Fever Reliever to go hiking with Oreo and HB .

The National Labor Relations Board has entered uncharted territory by validating allegations of worker retaliation and union-busting practices by the Wellness Connection of Maine, which grows medical marijuana for distribution in the state.

Friday night there are two great shows from two great improv troupes, with B.I.G. Improv at the Bangor Opera House at 7 p.m., and The Focus Group at the Next Generation Theatre across the bridge in Brewer at 8 p.m.; it's perfectly conceivable you could attend both.

It's just about time to make plans for the weekend . I suggest stopping by the Cabin Fever Reliever , an outdoorsy show that will help you kick the winter blues, March 1-2, at the "World Famous Brewer Auditorium."

Maine drug enforcement agents are investigating cocaine trafficking in Portland, and New England fishermen are getting financial help from the federal government.

An artist's rendering shows a new, 51,315-square-foot, 11-story outfitting building proposed by Bath Iron Works.

Brewer High School senior Rebecca Rivers and Kate, a Brewer Community School first-grader, read "The Haunted House," a book that Rivers wrote for Kate.

Lloyd M. Blanchard, 46, and Wendy C. Lainez-Blanchard, 54, both of Brewer, stayed the night at Northern Outdoors Lodge in The Forks on Sunday night.

The Brewer Music Department will be hosting the Maine Music Educators Association District 6 High School Jazz Festival at the Brewer Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, February 25th with a snow date of February 26th.

One hundred years ago tomorrow, a great and noble American passed into eternity.

Earlier in the evening on Friday, there's the monthly contradance at the Unitarian Church with contra band Velocipede and caller Bill Olson, and there's west coast swing dancing at the Next Generation in Brewer.

EMHS, a hospital system based in Brewer, Maine, named Dr. Robert Thompson senior VP and chief medical officer.Thompson, 54, is now chief quality and medical officer at Asante Health System, based in Medford, Ore.