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Bangor pastor ‘Buddy’ Frankland, known for politics and scandal, dies at 89
The Rev. Herman “Buddy” Frankland, the magnetic evangelical leader who turned his Bangor church into a juggernaut before admitting an affair with a parishioner that led him into a career mostly out of the public eye, died this week at age 89. Frankland is …