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.

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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