By Andrew Butcher  Earlier this month, I was honored and humbled to be unanimously confirmed and sworn in as president of the newly created Maine Connectivity Authority.

By Nancy Battick Some of us love winter.

By Bob Duchesne We interrupt this column for a special bulletin.

By Matthew Gagnon, Bangor Daily News Staff Let me ask you a serious question: Have you ever made a decision about who to vote for based on a debate? Search your mind, and see if you can come up with a single time it has happened.

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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.

By BDN Editorial Board If you weren’t one of the more than 3.

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.

By Sarah Sindo I couldn’t quite pinpoint what was slowly gnawing at me for the entire month of December.

By Matthew Gagnon In Maine today, you are not allowed to work at a health care facility if you are unvaccinated and perfectly healthy.

By Jennifer Thompson and Scott Pardy As the new year dawns, Penobscot County faces significant crises.

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By Nancy Battick It’s a new year.

By Pete Warner Bangor Daily News Staff Ice fishing can be an exhilarating, frustrating, frigid and even a downright dangerous outdoor pursuit.

By Matthew Gagnon I hate New Year’s resolutions, and never make them.

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

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.