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Bangor group plans outreach for Community Development Week; downtown "glowup" grants, sidewalk art festival set for summer

Bangor City Community Development Group · March 13, 2026
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City partners discussed Community Development Week outreach ideas (including a kindness card campaign), downtown spring programs and a new "glowup" storefront grant that will subsidize paint, awnings and signage to improve streetscape appeal; sidewalk art festival moved to the second Saturday in July.

Betsy Lundy, representing downtown interests, outlined downtown programming for the spring and summer, including the return of adopt‑a‑garden, more flower boxes, volunteer events such as the "big dig day" and a sidewalk art festival moved to the second Saturday in July to avoid Fourth of July conflicts. "We are rolling into our spring season here in downtown and launching all of our warm weather programs," Lundy said, noting free…

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