— City Councilor Gretchen Schaefer on why she previously voted against hiring Streetplus to provide a range of cleaning, safety and hospitality services in downtown Bangor. The nonprofit Downtown Bangor Partnership is planning to ask the city to consider it again.
Maine athletes and coaches have made some national news this week. We found out on Wednesday that the University of Maine’s men’s basketball team will play superstar Cooper Flagg on Nov. 4 at Duke University, where the Newport native will be starting his freshman year. Former Gorham High School star and Indiana University All-American Mackenzie Holmes was drafted in the third round of the WNBA draft by the Seattle Storm on Monday night. In hockey news, Tyler Walsh, son of legendary UMaine hockey coach Shawn Walsh, is set to coach the Gustavus Adolphus College hockey team in St. Peter, Minnesota. And former UMaine star Bradly Nadeau made his National Hockey League debut for the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night.
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