By Nancy Battick When you’re working with early town records you’ll often encounter pages of family histories where the parents and children are listed with birth dates.

Over the past year, archivists and librarians all over Maine have been collecting primary source materials related to their communities’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ORONO — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will hold its annual Vegetable and Fruit School online from noon to 2 p.

The Maine Community Foundation reached a milestone in charitable giving this month, passing the $500 million mark in grants awarded since it was founded 38 years ago.

By Matthew LaRoche The Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation, founded in 2011, is a group of dedicated volunteers that are interested in enhancing the wilderness character of the waterway, protecting its environment, preserving its historic and cultural values and fostering knowledge and understanding of the waterway.

To the Editor; Dale Crafts’ recent OpEd “Public option will make health care system worse” is a study in sophistry.

By Lindsay Putnam, Bangor Daily News Staff This story will be updated.

Following several seasons in Class D South, Piscataquis Community High School baseball, softball and soccer teams would move back to Class C North.

By David Marino Jr.

By Betta Stothart If you’re fired up about the outdoors, there are lots of outrageously cool sights in Maine to explore.