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Are you ready to go ice fishing?

By Bill Graves While minimal snow cover is a detriment to skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling, at least some days and most nights offer frigid ice-forming temperatures so local lakes and ponds are freezing to support ice fishing.

Matthew Gagnon went too far in recent column

To the Editor; I don’t expect to agree with Matthew Gagnon’s columns often, if ever, but I do value the multiple perspectives presented in the Bangor Daily News/Piscataquis Observer opinion pages.

No surprise that Maine state parks set another attendance record

By BDN Editorial Board If you weren’t one of the more than 3.

Hey, birders! Our feathered friends aren’t as eager to get a close look at you.

By Bob Duchesne Just so you know, the now-legendary Steller’s sea eagle has spent much of the week around Boothbay, glimpsed by a few people, missed by most.

Seek peace and harmony, not ammo

To the Editor; I recently had the misfortune of viewing the much-seen photograph of Kentucky Rep.

Matt Gagnon and Michael Cianchette missed an opportunity

To the Editor; On Jan.

Winter hiking is difficult, but I still enjoy it more than summer adventures

By Sarah Sindo I couldn’t quite pinpoint what was slowly gnawing at me for the entire month of December.

Maine is keeping unvaccinated health workers at home and allowing some COVID-positive staff to return. You decide if that makes sense.

By Matthew Gagnon In Maine today, you are not allowed to work at a health care facility if you are unvaccinated and perfectly healthy.

Penobscot County crises require significant investments. Now is the time to make them.

By Jennifer Thompson and Scott Pardy As the new year dawns, Penobscot County faces significant crises.

A close shave in the wilderness

Preserving family photos

By Nancy Battick It’s a new year.

It’s time to gear up and make new ice fishing memories

By Pete Warner Bangor Daily News Staff Ice fishing can be an exhilarating, frustrating, frigid and even a downright dangerous outdoor pursuit.

Where are the charges for Trump?

To the Editor; What is keeping the Justice Department from charging Donald Trump with sedition for his repeated attempts to overturn the 2020 election? Why does not pressuring the Georgia secretary of state to “find” non-existent votes, or likewise pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to dismiss legally appointed electors, and then encouraging, if not actually organizing, a mob to attack the Capitol on Jan.

A New Year’s political resolution to challenge our beliefs

By Matthew Gagnon I hate New Year’s resolutions, and never make them.

Always check winter ice conditions

Northern Light board thanks Mayo staff

To the Editor; As we begin to delve into the blank slate of 2022’s 365 days, we would be remiss at not taking a moment to reflect on the admirable work that you (Northern Light Mayo Hospital staff in Dover-Foxcroft) all have accomplished in year two of the pandemic.

County commissioners should resume remote access to meetings

To the Editor; Last January, the Piscataquis County Commissioners provided Zoom access to their meetings to accommodate the large number of attendees when the Resolution of Protest was presented.

Percival Baxter’s new year’s resolution resonates 100 years later

By BDN Editorial Board One hundred years ago – on Jan.

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