By ERIC RUSSELL; OF THE NEWS STAFF BANGOR - City officials are close to signing a three-year contract with a local company to run natural gas service lines to City Hall and four other municipal buildings, a switch that could save the city $100,000 annually.

By Eric Russell, Bangor Daily News, Maine Jun. 17--BANGOR, Maine -- City officials are close to signing a three-year contract with a local company to run natural gas service lines to City Hall and four other municipal buildings, a switch that could save the city $100,000 annually.

By Eric Russell, Bangor Daily News, Maine Jun. 7--It's clean, the supply is both stable and close to home and, at the moment, it's running at about half the cost of No. 2 heating oil. Give up? It's natural gas, and it's being sought after with increasing fervor in the Greater Bangor market.