Flight Deck Brewing in Brunswick will host a Brunswick Landing Block Party from 4-8 p.m. on Aug. 2 to benefit Brunswick Community Education Foundation. The evening of family-friendly fun will include food trucks, face painting and a puppy corral by Midcoast Humane. Music will be provided by Under the Covers and book pop-ups by Novella […]
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Brunswick Naval Aviation Museum hires director as founding leader retires
Karen Sigler, of Kennebunk, will succeed John Briley, the Brunswick Naval Aviation Museum’s founding executive director.
American Airlines purchases Brunswick Landing’s toxic firefighting foam
The deal comes as lawmakers advance policies to monitor and deal with Maine’s PFAS-laden foam stock.
New legislation will require more locals on Brunswick Landing board
One of several bills related to the 2024 spill of forever chemicals at Brunswick Landing, the new law restructures the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority.
Mills signs bill to shut off fire suppression systems with forever chemicals at Brunswick Landing
The bill requires the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority to remove all remaining PFAS-containing firefighting foam by the end of the year.
Block parties, breakfasts and a dozen other May-June events to dive into
Last week, we highlighted several events all happening on Brunswick Landing in May. This week, I want to touch on some events happening throughout the region so you can start marking up your late-May and June calendars for things not to miss. I do want to mention that both of the monthly chamber networking events […]
EPA announces rollback of limits on forever chemicals in drinking water
The agency rolled back limits for three types of forever chemicals but will keep standards in place for the two most common PFAS, known as PFOA and PFOS.
Healing the Mere Brook waters
For the past few years, I’ve carried with me a quotation given to me by a friend. We were out walking and assessing a stretch of potential conservation land. A brook ran along a gully nearby, and we were wondering about the brook’s work across time, which led, as many brook talks do, to my […]
Proposed bill would restructure Brunswick Landing leadership, require environmental stewardship
If passed, the bill would add more people from Brunswick to the authority’s board of trustees and add “environmental stewardship” as an official goal.
Brunswick Landing removes toxic foam from airport hangar
Hangar 6 held 975 gallons of aqueous film-forming foam, or AFFF, containing a toxic chemical compound known as PFOS.