BANGOR – Pumpkins in the Park, a fun Halloween-themed fundraiser for UCP of Maine, will return with a 19th edition, beginning October 22, and will include an extra day, according to the social services organization.

The 2021 edition of Pumpkins in the Park will be a virtual edition, like last year, according to Andrew Lohman, marketing and communications manager for UCP of Maine. Citing continuing uncertainty connected to the pandemic, Lohman said the event will be conducted online with participants being encouraged to share photos each day on their social media pages while tagging UCP of Maine.

“We’re asking folks to use the hashtag #PumpkinsInThePark and #UCPofMaine when they post photos connected to the events going on each day,” Lohman said.

MORRISTOWN, Vt. (AP) — Tom and Cynthia Cloutier treasure spending time on their porch, eating dinner on their deck with a view of the mountains, and generally just enjoying the quiet of living in rural Vermont in the home they bought in 2018 after retirement.

That all changed the following year, when a section of road that abuts their property was opened to all-terrain vehicles that previously were not permitted on roads. Frequently, when they’d go outside, noisy ATVs would be coming down the road, he said.

“Overnight our Silver Ridge (Road) became a superhighway of ATVs,” Tom Cloutier said. “We could hear these machines inside our home, but when we went outside we could not have a conversation, sit on our front porch quietly with our coffee, or eat dinner on our deck or enjoy watching the sunset.”