Brunswick Naval Air Station

Kestrel's Brunswick landing: Klapmeier discusses drones, skeptics of Navy base venture

BRUNSWICK — It started with a voice-mail message. In the spring, several months after a bitter split with the company he founded, aviation visionary Alan Klapmeier left a message for the agency redeveloping Brunswick Naval Air Station. The message, according to Klapmeier...

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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Earmark could send $425k to SMCC's Brunswick campus

BRUNSWICK — An earmark within a congressional bill funding health and education could provide $425,000 in start-up funding for the Southern Maine Community College's campus at the redeveloped Brunswick Naval Air Station. The proposed earmark, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D...

Steve Mistler • News •
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 11:30 am

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Brunswick base transportation study adds rail, Topsham traffic

BRUNSWICK — The study commissioned to address transportation issues surrounding the redevelopment of Brunswick Naval Air Station has expanded to include two focus areas: rail and Route 201 in Topsham. Both areas were added to address concerns that the $1 million transportation study ...

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Monday, January 18, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Defense bill includes nearly $13M for Brunswick reserve center

BRUNSWICK — Congress this week passed a $447 billion omnibus bill that includes a $12.9 million earmark for a Joint Armed Forces Reserve Center at Brunswick Naval Air Station. The reserve center funding is within the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill, one...

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Brunswick base agency sets timetable for redevelopment goals

TOPSHAM — When the civilian build-out of Brunswick Naval Air Station is complete, base redevelopers hope to create about 14,000 jobs, nearly triple the number expected to be lost in the 2011 closure. Strengthening the local workforce is cause for optimism, but when the Midcoast Regio...

Steve Mistler • News •
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Private aviation firm with eyes on Brunswick base thrives on public funds, political connections

OXFORD — On Nov. 1, 2006, Gov. John Baldacci and other political figures converged on Sanford Regional Airport to commemorate what was supposed to have been a significant economic development project and a victory for the governor and his political allies. The groundbreaking for the ... 15

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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Citizen group seeks groundwater protections in Brunswick base zoning

BRUNSWICK — A citizen group monitoring environmental clean-up at Brunswick Naval Air Station is pushing for future zoning restrictions that could affect how developers use or contribute to the groundwater beneath the base. Although such restrictions are in place at other Superfund hazardous ...

Steve Mistler • News •
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Richardson calls for new 'protocols' to discuss Brunswick Naval Air Station redevelopment

BRUNSWICK — Caught between a need to ease anxiety about the closing of Brunswick Naval Air Station and protecting the identity of prospective tenants at the base, the commissioner of the state Department of Economic and Community Development on Monday called for new communication "protoc...

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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Brunswick base redevelopers hope Congress backs no-cost transfers

BRUNSWICK — The U.S. House of Representatives this week was expected to hear a bill sponsored by Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, that could help speed redevelopment of Brunswick Naval ...

Steve Mistler • News •
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 5:50 pm
MRRA, federal bill aim to speed Brunswick base resolution

Levesque: Public sale of property could delay development BRUNSWICK — There are probably many misconceptions about the closure of Brunswick Naval Air Station. Chief among them, Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority officials said this week, is the notion that the town w...

Steve Mistler • News •
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 11:41 am

Brunswick Naval Air Station

Kestrel's Brunswick landing: Klapmeier discusses drones, skeptics of Navy base venture

Earmark could send $425k to SMCC's Brunswick campus

Brunswick base transportation study adds rail, Topsham traffic

Defense bill includes nearly $13M for Brunswick reserve center

Brunswick base agency sets timetable for redevelopment goals

Private aviation firm with eyes on Brunswick base thrives on public funds, political connections

Citizen group seeks groundwater protections in Brunswick base zoning

Richardson calls for new 'protocols' to discuss Brunswick Naval Air Station redevelopment

Brunswick base redevelopers hope Congress backs no-cost transfers

MRRA, federal bill aim to speed Brunswick base resolution

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