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Longtime street sweeper retires

BANGOR - One of downtown's unsung heroes was the guest of honor Thursday at a surprise retirement party at the city's public works facility on Maine Avenue.

Donald McKenzie, 71, has retired after a nearly three-decade career with the city, most of it spent as a street sweeper.

Until a few years ago, when he was transferred to the city's recycling facility on Maine Avenue, McKenzie could be found each weekday in his orange vest and rubber boots, cleaning downtown sidewalks and parks, picking up litter in the summer, shoveling snow in the winter and sweeping dust in the spring.

From 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., from the Bangor House to the Bangor post office, McKenzie - armed with a large, wheeled ...

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