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

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.

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

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By John Holyoke For nearly two decades as the outdoors writer at the Bangor Daily News, I traveled thousands of miles and wrote hundreds of columns and stories about wild places, wild animals and wild adventures – both mine, and those enjoyed by others.

By Nancy Battick It hardly seems possible that 2021 is coming to a swift end.

By Matthew Gagnon Enes Kanter Freedom might be the most interesting player in the NBA, and he just so happens to be on the hometown team around here, the Boston Celtics.

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By Justin Alfond One of my late grandfather’s favorite sayings was: “If you keep chopping wood, pretty soon there will be a pile.

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By Anthony Emerson December is here, and soon snow will fall and accumulate in amounts that must be measured in feet.

By Matthew Gagnon The predictions game is a difficult one, but a lot of fun.

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By Christi Holmes I knew it was dead.

By Nancy Battick Have you ever run across an error in a vital record? A misspelled name or a wrong date, perhaps? You know there’s an error but is there anything you can do about it? The answer is maybe.

By Matthew Gagnon Maine received word of an early Christmas present last week, when state revenue forecasters announced that updated projections showed that Maine will have an additional $822 million in revenue to play with during the current biennium.

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