Editing Bangor, Maine (section)

==Economy==
Major employers in the region include:<ref>{{cite web|title=Major Employers|url=http://www.choosebangor.com/population-data/major-employers.html|access-date=December 12, 2015|archive-date=December 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222115102/http://www.choosebangor.com/population-data/major-employers.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Services and retail: [[Hannaford Supermarkets]], [[Shaw's and Star Market]], Bangor Savings Bank, [[Walmart]].
* Finance: The [[Bangor Savings Bank]], founded in 1852, is Maine's largest independent bank; as of 2013, it had more than $2.8&nbsp;billion in assets<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bangor.com/uploadedFiles/Bangor_com/content/About_Us/News/2013%20JD%20Power%20Press%20Release.pdf |title=J. D. Power and Associates Ranks Bangor Savings Bank Highest in New England for Customer Satisfaction |access-date=February 4, 2014 |archive-date=September 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913192018/http://www.bangor.com/uploadedFiles/Bangor_com/content/About_Us/News/2013%20JD%20Power%20Press%20Release.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the largest share of the 13-bank Bangor market.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bangordailynews.com/2013/01/15/business/the-first-to-open-branch-bank-in-bangor/|title=The First to open branch bank in Bangor|work=The Bangor Daily News|date=January 15, 2013}}</ref>
* Healthcare: [[Eastern Maine Medical Center]] (now Northern Light Healthcare), Acadia Hospital, St. Joseph's Healthcare, Community Health & Counseling Services.
* Education: [[University of Maine]], [[Beal University]], [[Husson University]], [[Eastern Maine Community College]]
* Manufacturing: [[General Electric]].

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 County|Piscataquis]], [[Hancock County, Maine|Hancock]], [[Aroostook County, Maine|Aroostook]], and [[Washington County, Maine|Washington]] counties.

Bangor's city council has approved a resolution opposing the sale of [[sweat-shop]]-produced clothing in local stores.<ref>{{cite news|title = Maine citizens must take a stand against sweatshops|url = http://archive.bangordailynews.com/2001/04/05/maine-citizens-must-take-a-stand-against-sweatshops/|access-date = April 20, 2015|first1 = Katherine C.|last1 = Edes|first2 = Dale|last2 = Saucier|newspaper = Bangor Daily News}}</ref>

===Tourism===
[[File:Paul Bunyan statue in Bangor, Maine.jpg|thumb|[[Paul Bunyan]] statue]]
Outdoor activities in the [[Bangor City Forest]] and other nearby parks, forests, and waterways include hiking, sailing, canoeing, hunting, fishing, skiing, and snowmobiling.

Bangor Raceway at the Bass Park Civic Center and Auditorium offers live, pari-mutuel [[harness racing]] from May through July and then briefly in the fall. [[Hollywood Casino Hotel & Raceway Bangor|Hollywood Casino]], operated by [[Penn National Gaming]], originally opened as a [[slot machine]] only facility. In 2007, construction began on a $131-million [[casino]] complex in Bangor that houses, among other things, a gaming floor with about 1,000 slot machines, an [[off-track betting]] center, a seven-story hotel, and a four-level parking garage. In 2011, it was authorized to add [[Casino game#Table games|table games]].

===Military installations===
[[Bangor Air National Guard Base]] is a [[United States Air National Guard]] base. Created in 1927 as a commercial field, it was taken over by the U.S. Army just before World War II. In 1968, the base was sold to the city of Bangor, Maine, to become [[Bangor International Airport]] but has since continued to host the [[101st Air Refueling Wing]], [[Maine Air National Guard]], part of the [[Northeast Tanker Task Force]].

In 1990, the USAF East Coast Radar System (ECRS) Operation Center was activated in Bangor with over 400 personnel. The center controlled the [[over-the-horizon radar]]'s transmitter in Moscow, Maine, and receiver in [[Columbia Falls, Maine]]. With the end of the [[Cold War]], the facility's mission of guarding against a Soviet air attack became superfluous, and though it briefly turned its attention toward [[drug interdiction]], the system was decommissioned in 1997 as the [[Solid State Phased Array Radar System|SSPARS]] system installation—the successor to the [[PAVE PAWS]] installation—in Massachusetts' [[Cape Cod Air Force Station]] reservation fully took over.