Assisted Living in Bangor, ME

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Facts about Bangor

Bangor is also known as: Penobscot County / Bangor city.

And some of the notable people born here have been: Terry Godbey (poet), John Baldacci (politician and businessperson), Jon DiSalvatore (ice hockey player), Jack Leggett (baseball coach and coach), and Al Harris (american football player).

And featured attractions of Bangor: New England School of Communications, Mount Hope Cemetery, Winkin Sports Complex, Hannibal Hamlin House, and Symphony House.

Bangor is represented by City Manager Catherine Conlow.

Bangor is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County in the U.S. state of Maine, and the major commercial and cultural center for eastern and northern Maine. The population of the city was 33,039 at the 2010 United States Census. Bangor is the principal city of the Bangor Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 153,923, and encompasses all of Penobscot County.As of 2008, Bangor is the third most populous city in Maine, as it has been for more than a century. Bangor is the largest market town, distribution center, transportation hub, and media center in a five-county area whose population tops 330,000 and which includes Penobscot, Piscataquis, Hancock, Aroostook, and Washington counties.Bangor is about thirty miles from Penobscot Bay up the Penobscot River at its confluence with the Kenduskeag Stream. It is connected by bridge to the neighboring city of Brewer. Its immediate suburban towns are Orono Hampden, Hermon, Old Town, Glenburn, and Veazie.

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