PORTLAND – AARP Maine and the Maine Broadband Coalition have partnered to create the County Connector program to coordinate, across Maine’s 16 counties, an effort to urge local elected officials and town leadership to prioritize state and federal broadband funding that best serves each community and county.

By Jessica Piper, Bangor Daily News Staff LEWISTON — Former Gov.

By John Holyoke For nearly two decades as the outdoors writer at the Bangor Daily News, I traveled thousands of miles and wrote hundreds of columns and stories about wild places, wild animals and wild adventures – both mine, and those enjoyed by others.

PORTLAND – The liturgical season of Christmas begins with the vigil Masses on Christmas Eve and concludes on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which this season is Jan.

For nearly a quarter century, Dave Fuller has been teaching untold numbers of people ages 5 to 90 how to grow hardneck garlic.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff For the first time in seven years, the volunteers who maintain the Appalachian Trail in Maine will soon have a modern, comfortable and permanent place to spend their days off.

By Jessica Piper and Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff The first cases of the omicron COVID-19 variant were reported in Maine on Friday, signaling further challenges to a state facing record virus-related hospitalizations, although much remains unknown about the new strain.

By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA — Leaders of the Maine Legislature on Friday released an initial schedule for a January return to the State House, again limiting in-person floor sessions, leaving lawmakers under a mask mandate and retaining virtual committee hearings.

ORONO – The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering bundles of pre-recorded webinars about various gardening-related topics for last-minute gift shoppers.

By Bob Duchesne The calendar says Dec.