6 days ago Thanksgiving is our best chance to discuss family health history By Virginia Templet Thanksgiving is many things.
6 days ago Go ahead, talk politics at Thanksgiving dinner By Matthew Gagnon It is Thanksgiving season once again, and I think you should talk about politics and religion at your dinner table.
7 days ago Why it makes sense to stand with Maine’s free press By Jo Easton, Bangor Daily News director of development The founders of our country knew journalism is necessary for an informed electorate — in short, for American democracy to thrive.
1 week ago Fall ticks are the worst. Here’s how to thwart them. By Aislinn Sarnacki A friend of mine found about a dozen ticks crawling on his clothing yesterday after spending the morning walking through meadows, and I wasn’t surprised.
1 week ago Solo women were rare By Nancy Battick In my last column I wrote about the challenges involved in researching the early censuses.
2 weeks ago This is the reason it’s time to extend fall fishing By Bob Mallard As I have done for most years, I spent the last week of the general open water season fishing in the Moosehead and Chesuncook lake regions.
2 weeks ago Democrats have stark lessons to learn from election, even though they largely won in Maine By Matthew Gagnon All in all, it wasn’t that bad of an election night for Democrats in Maine.
2 weeks ago Early census oddities By Nancy Battick One of the frustrating things involving the early U.
3 weeks ago Welcome to AARP Maine’s News You Can Use By Joyce Bucciantini, AARP Maine community outreach volunteer Each monthly article will focus on seasonal, useful information to keep everyone informed about AARP topics, events, or just fun stuff to do.
3 weeks ago Why Maine should get rid of ranked-choice voting By Matthew Gagnon This week, Maine is once again coming face to face with the foolishness of its decision to adopt ranked-choice voting in 2016.
3 weeks ago You can visit some of Maine’s giant boulders By Aislinn Sarnacki, Bangor Daily News Staff Deep in the forest near my house, massive boulders lie scattered along a hill, chunks of granite so tall they dwarf surrounding trees.
4 weeks ago It’s the day after the election, and everything will be just fine By Matthew Gagnon It is unpopular to say this now, but the world is not going to end because your candidate didn’t win Tuesday night.
1 month ago The Disney classic ‘Bambi’ is a love letter to the Maine woods By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff How old were you when you first watched “Bambi,” the animated Disney classic? You were probably very small.