Good morning, Bangor.

Old Town is celebrating Riverfest's 30th year from Sept.

25-27 with food trucks, music and fireworks Friday, a UMaine Marching Band parade Saturday at 10 a.m. on Main Street and a community yard sale Sunday at Binette Park.

Former NFL player Mike DeVito, who spent nine years in the NFL, is now at UMaine helping football players plan for life after sports using lessons from his career (and his passion for philosophy).

The preschool class at Kidsville Daycare in Newport dressed as scarecrows on Tuesday in celebration of fall and went to Garden Gates in Corinna to pick pumpkins and enjoy a hayride.

Environment Maine will hold its Roadside Wildlife Count from Oct.

2 to 11 as locals record any animals seen on roads near Bangor to help study how traffic affects wildlife. Data from the count will support efforts to add more wildlife crossings in our area.

The Maine Eviction Prevention Program reopened today with full funding from a one-time $11 million state allocation.

Eligible Mainers who owe no more than $9,600 in back rent and earn below 60% of the area median can now apply through the MaineHousing website.

City leaders moved homelessness efforts forward as the Bangor Advisory Committee on Homelessness recommended funding Project Hope, a pilot program that pairs $300,000 from MaineHousing with a $126,000 city match from opioid settlement funds + Community Development Block Grants to serve 90 people and house 45; the committee will review the proposal again Monday, Sept. 28.

MaineHealth receives a $4.5 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to expand research on PFAS impacts on human bones; the study will examine if effects seen in children extend into adulthood.

MaineHealth received a $4.5 million NIH grant to study PFAS effects on the human body — the five-year study will expand research that linked PFAS to delayed puberty and low bone density in children.

Local soldiers and airmen took part in the annual Ruck to Remember on Tuesday in Bangor as part of Suicide Prevention Awareness month — carrying 22-pound rucksacks in a 22-kilometer march to honor veterans lost to suicide and remind neighbors to look out for one another.

Worm, a neutered 5-year-old male, is seeking a home at the Bangor Humane Society — adoption details are available at the shelter.

Bradly Nadeau, the former UMaine winger, is battling for a spot on the Carolina Hurricanes roster after scoring 59 goals in two seasons with the Chicago Wolves — he is one of several ex-UMaine players at the shortened NHL training camp ahead of the regular season which starts Sept. 29.

John Bapst High School girls soccer beat Hermon 2-1 on Tuesday night at the University of Maine’s New Balance Soccer Complex in Orono.

Speedy sophomore Naia Studley scored early goals (1:58 apart) to advance the Crusaders to 4-0-1 while Hermon dropped to 5-1.