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Help from ‘Roots Tech’

By Nancy Battick Roots Tech, the world’s largest family history celebration, has now ended, but you still have time to access many of the sessions online for free.

This is spring salmon fishing in Maine

Piscataquis Democrats attend state convention

PORTLAND — Piscataquis County Democrats were well represented at the Maine Democratic Convention at Thompson’s Point in Portland on May 1-2.

Maine has dozens of fishing waters where adults can’t fish

By Al Raychard My father wasn’t much of a fisherman, but he must have wet a line or two at some point during his youth because he seemed to know a little about it on our rare outings.

Maine has a crowded June primary. Ranked-choice voting will prevent spoilers.

By Chrissy Hart, League of Women Voters of Maine executive director Maine’s primaries will be held on June 9 — less than five weeks from today.

Some of Maine’s biggest lake trout are older than you think

By Greg Burr Wild lake trout can live more than 30 years, with some reaching 40 years or older.

Killer flies

AARP Maine’s News You Can Use

By Joyce Bucciantini, AARP Maine community outreach volunteer Growing up, my childhood vacations were always road trips to visit my grandparents.

Building homes and lifting lives

A Maine man guiding in Alaska survived a grizzly attack. He says it was his fault.

Great migration directory

By Nancy Battick Many genealogists know the work of the late Robert Charles Anderson.

Thoughts from Minnie at the PACC

By Minnie McCormick May baskets, a thing of the past? Not at the Piscataquis Area Community Center with Minnie McCormick.

How I find moose calves in the Maine woods every spring

By Ethan Eisenhaur Springtime in the Maine woods is a busy season full of new life, and one of the first animals I try to capture with my cameras is moose calves.

This month is made for financial literacy. Let’s all take advantage.

By Mindy Nyman April is National Financial Literacy Month, reminding us all to take our financial health seriously.

Maine’s wildlife commissioner stepped down early. Why it matters.

A budget that invests in Maine people

Genealogy spring cleaning

By Nancy Battick In years past, our grandmothers were itching to begin spring cleaning, after being shut in all winter and heating with wood or coal.

The survival food in ‘Lost on a Mountain in Maine’ is real. But should you eat it?

By Anne Favolise There is a scene in the movie “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” where Luke David Blumm, who plays the young, lost and hungry Donn Fendler, picks something off a boulder to eat as he wanders through the forest below Mount Katahdin.

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