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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Climate change affecting Maine waters is bad for fish and anglers alike

By Bob Mallard At the end of September, when most waters I fish in Maine closed to fishing for the season, it was apparent that what I had just seen was no fluke.

Masked out

To the Editor; We needed to buy a new window shade, so I went to my favorite big box store.

The 2021 Conifer Awards

By Matthew Gagnon As the end of 2020 approached and the promise of 2021 dawned, we had all lived through what we had collectively deemed The Worst Year Ever, and were ready for something better.

Maine snowmobiling: good and bad

Joe Manchin put a lump of coal in Joe Biden’s stocking

By Matthew Gagnon President Joe Biden isn’t exactly having a good time lately.

Maine has record deer harvest

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