Brewer News

This is a great time of year for enjoying fresh, local produce, baked goods, dairy, meat and more at your local farmers markets.

Chuck and Belinda Lawrence, owners of Tradewinds supermarkets, convenience stores and gas stations, are proposing to build a 9,500 square-foot business on a 6.3-acre lot on Route 1A.

The Allagash Wilderness Waterway is truly the jewel of Maine's legendary northwoods.

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Lucas Lamond of Brewer, Maine, recently received a $1,500 scholarship to apply towards his further education from Farm Credit East, the Northeast's largest agricultural lending cooperative.

Hollywood Casino in Bangor is unveiling its new restaurant, Celebrity Bar & Grill, a sit-down eatery scheduled to open to the public on Wednesday, July 9. The restaurant will feature an American bar-and-grill atmosphere and menu, including burgers, sandwiches, wings, appetizers, seafood, steak and pasta entrees.

A Brewer man died on Interstate 95 in Howland at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday in the first fatal moose-vehicle collision of 2014, state police said.

The Brewer Athletic Boosters, Kiah Scholarship committee and athletic coaching staff are once again collaborating on an effort to host their annual golf tournament at the Traditions Golf Course and Learning Center in Holden.

Sisters Nicole and Alexa Jarvis of Bangor take a moment out of their busy morning to pose for a photo at Champ Camp.

Geaghan's Pub took a big chance when it decided to open a brewery in 2011. The risk has paid off.

Christine Morrison, a mother of three who lives in Eddington, had a lot of summer camp options for her children, ages 12, 9 and 5. She chose to send them to Crossroads Christian Camp on Chemo Pond.

Kaiden Phillips, 2, giggles after getting a kiss from Gretta Phillips during the annual Fourth of July parade Friday.

Hunter Pate poses with a striped bass he caught off his dock on the Penobscot River in Orrington recently.

Summers in Maine can mean lazy, hazy days at the beach, traveling across the state, enjoying tasty food at picnics and cookouts, watching parades and fireworks, and strolls in the park.

Some communities are weighing whether to call off their fireworks in anticipation of wet weather forecast for Fourth of July night.

Veterans with Maine walking sticks who did not get a 2014 sticker for their walking stick on Memorial Day may receive one from volunteers who will apply them to walking sticks 9:30-11 a.m. Fourth of July on the lawn next to where the veterans will form up for the parade on Wilson Street in Brewer.

The former manager of a buffet-style Chinese restaurant in Brewer that has been the target of a federal investigation since 2006 was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to 15 months in federal prison on multiple charges related to employing and harboring undocumented workers.

Well-known disc jockey and former Maine Sports Hall of Fame member Dana Wilson was found guilty on Tuesday of possession of child pornography.

The Maine Department of Marine Resources will meet with members of the public Monday to gauge their feelings on a series of changes aimed at protecting the American eel population in U.S. waters.

The verdict in the child pornography possession trial of disc jockey Dana Wilson, 63, of Brewer is scheduled to be announced at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Penobscot Judicial Center, according to the Penobscot County District Attorney's Office.