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This Week's Haul, Feb. 12: Bangor, the city of lovers

And: Let's hear it for the small folk

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Emily Burnham
Feb 12, 2026
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A photo of the work of Bangor’s own Valentine Bandit - modeled after the Portland one - from way back in 2012. Retrieved from deep in the bowels of the internet!

Good morning from eastern Maine, where this week, as I sat writing at my beloved Chimera Coffee in downtown Bangor one afternoon, I managed to overhear an hour or so of what I presume to be a fi…

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