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Check a Maine river at dusk in the spring and you could find hundreds of smelts

By Nolan Raymond I’m sure many of you remember your first smelting trip.

Mainers in recovery are already part of our communities. Treatment services must be, too.

By BDN Editorial Board Time after time, Maine communities debate a new project or zoning proposal, only for it to be met with the same tired argument: “I support addressing the overall issue, just not here.

With age comes an increase in blunders

As songbirds flock to Maine, here’s how you can find their hiding spots

By Bob Duchesne This is the weekend when lots of songbirds start flooding back into Maine.

Dipping smelts

By Matthew LaRoche, The Maine Woods Timing is everything when it comes to dipping smelts.

Broaden your perspective with the ‘1 after 2’ reading rule

By Matthew Gagnon Bart Ehrman is currently the James A.

Maine turkey season opens May 2

Cheers to the vaccine volunteers

By BDN Editorial Board Nearly 1,000 people in the Bangor area and across Maine proved Alexis de Tocqueville right this past year.

On the move

By Nancy Battick Our ancestors had the itch to move.

Maine is home to the widest diversity of brook trout in the nation

By Bob Mallard Brook trout are native to most of Quebec, Newfoundland, Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and much of Ontario in Canada.

Elon Musk may be just what Twitter, and other social media, needs

By Matthew Gagnon “I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.

Fiddleheads: timing is everything

The irony in the stars

By Piscataquis County Commissioner Andrew Torbett Here in Piscataquis County, there has been some controversy surrounding an internet availability study that was done by the Piscataquis County Economic Development Committee.

You can find these birds in your backyard if you look beyond your feeder

By Bob Duchesne I had the pleasure this week of presenting a program to the Downeast Chapter of Maine Audubon in Ellsworth.

Maine legislative races may be more important than governor’s contest this year

By Matthew Gagnon In the past 47 years, the Maine House has been in Republican hands for only two of those years.

The Sierra Club is no friend to hunters

This game will test how well you really know Maine’s migrant birds

By Bob Duchesne May is the month when most migrants return to Maine.

History on the sea

By Nancy Battick It’s no fluke that Maine’s state flag depicts a sailor.

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