BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - The weather may be cooling down, but one spot in Bangor offers a tropical taste all year long.

“We thought, you know what Bangor needs? Some shave ice,” said Julianne Sawyer, co-owner, Sawyer’s Shave Ice.

After a decade of living first in California and then Hawaii, high school sweethearts Andrew and Julianne Sawyer returned to their hometown of Bangor in 2022.

They brought back with them their love of a traditional Hawaiian dessert they first encountered on their honeymoon.

“We had never really had anything like it,” Julianne said.

“We had to go out of our way the rest of the trip to go back. We just kept going back,” the couple said. “We couldn’t get enough of it.”

Back in Maine and missing shave ice, the Sawyers started serving it out of a food truck and wat

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