AUGUSTA — Officials connected with the 2013 Maine Downtown Achievement Awards, presented during the 13th annual Maine Downtown Conference titled “Green and Healthy Main Streets: New Economic Vitality for Downtowns,” revealed that Bath came away with two honors.

Main Street Bath was given the Promotion of the Year award for its annual fundraising campaign, while the Bath Custom House window restoration effort received the Outstanding Green Downtowns Project award.

Other winners included:

Eastport received the Outstanding Downtown Network Community of the Year award, with accolades for efforts to revitalize its downtown over the last few years.

Historic preservation awards were presented to the Waterville Opera House interior restoration and for 265 Main St. in downtown Biddeford, a multi-use building rescue utilizing historic tax credits.

Belfast’s Front Street Shipyard received the Downtown Business of the Year award.

The top award — the Maine Downtown Visionary — was presented to Amber Lambke of Skowhegan for her leadership and innovation in creating the Somerset Grist Mill out of the former county jail facility and stimulating local food-based business development in downtown Skowhegan.

Also announced at the event was the addition of Augusta as a designated Main Street community. It joins 10 other nationally designated Main Street communities in Maine, the largest number of participating communities in the state’s history. The Augusta Downtown Alliance, the managing nonprofit organization, will receive a variety of training and planning resources, including an in-depth Resource Team report and a multi-year package of training services.

Rumford and Kingfield were announced as the two new communities joining the Maine Downtown Network program.

“These distinctive places, led by passionate leaders through a unique public-private partnership, are capitalizing on their unique character to stimulate economic vitality in the heart of their community,” said Roxanne Eflin, Maine’s state coordinator with the National Main Street Center and senior program director of the Maine Development Foundation’s Maine Downtown Center.

The National Main Street program was launched in 1980 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and was established in state statute through the Maine Development Foundation in 1999. The Maine Downtown Network was created by MDC in 2009 as a first step to help communities organize around the Main Street Four Point Approach and/or potentially apply for Main Street designation.

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