[1] Brower grew up in Westborough, Massachusetts, to his adopted parents Carmel and Richard.
He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and graduated in 1978 with a degree in marketing.
[4] In 2015, Brower bought MaineToday Media from financier S. Donald Sussman.
[7] On March 30, 2023, he announced he was looking to sell or take on investors to Masthead Maine, the successor to MaineToday.
[14] Four of those newspaper (The Courier-Gazette, The Republican Journal, The Camden Herald and The Free Press) were combined in 2024 to form the Midcoast Villager.