2022 Great Falls Balloon Festival Friday launches

Photos from Friday's morning and evening launches from Simard Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston where balloons took to the skies Friday, August 19, 2022. Photos by Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

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Balloons lift off Friday morning, August 19, 2022 from Simard Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston, Maine on the first day of the 2022 Great Falls Balloon Festival in Lewiston after being cancelled for the past two years because of COVID. Photo by Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal.

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