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The national retail clothing store, Gap, plans to close its stores in the Bangor Mall and South Portland’s Maine Mall in January as part of a plan it announced earlier this year to close 175 stores nationwide.

The Arby's Restaurant in Bangor is closing on Friday, July 31st. The owner, Robert Smith, is retiring at the age of 77. Smith opened the Arby's in Bangor in 1983, and it's one of six Arby's in Maine. The other locations are in Augusta, Auburn, Presque Isle, South Portland and Topsham. Those locations are staying open as they are all owned by other franchisees.

The last bowling ball will be thrown down the lane for the last time on Wednesday at Waterville's Sparetime Receation, the cities last bowling alley.

Radio Shack has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and they will be closing 2,400 stores nationwide, including thirteen of them in Maine.

I read in the newspaper yesterday that the Tim Horton's in Lewiston just up and closed. No one knew it was coming. THEN, I heard the store in Skowhegan closed as well. One in Portland that also housed a Cold Stone Creamery closed in November. NOW, I hear the one in Augusta on Bangor Street closed yesterday!! What's going on? I haven't heard about any of this!

This Christmas marked the final Christmas for Sears in the Lewiston Mall. Sears has been in the Lewiston Mall for 34 years and the liquidation sale, which began in October is set to wrap-up by mid-January.