PRESQUE ISLE – The Foxcroft Academy cross country team traveled north to Aroostook County to take part in the Presque Isle Wildcat X-C Invit.

By Aislinn Sarnacki Alone in the southwest corner of Baxter State Park, Sentinel Mountain has a fitting name.

GUILFORD — The regular season is underway for fall high school and middle school sports across Maine.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy Booster Club members are often busy manning the snack shack at sporting events and cooking menu items and raising funds in a variety of ways to benefit student-athletes and their programs.

By Tim Obrey, Moosehead Lake Region fisheries supervisor GREENVILLE —We are sitting pretty at First Roach Pond with 6.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Late in the first quarter of the 2024 season opener vs.

ELLSWORTH — The Foxcroft Academy and Dexter Regional High School cross country teams took part in the 2024 Ellsworth Invitational on Saturday, Sept.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff It became illegal to sell painted lead jigs on Sept.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff The Maine Principals’ Association has voted to remove the mouthguard mandate for middle school and high school soccer, effective immediately.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff As recently as 2016, just two of the 127 active high school varsity boys soccer programs in Maine had female head coaches.

WALDOBORO — Foxcroft Academy senior Runner Jarrett finished 12th at the Panther Pre-Season 2-Miler on Saturday, Aug.

By Aislinn Sarnacki The jagged backbone of a stone giant, Knife Edge stretched before us.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Gateway Trading Post in Ashland started registering bears on youth day and the flow of hunters coming through hasn’t stopped since.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff The boys soccer season gets fully underway on Sept.

By Tim Obrey, Moosehead Lake Region fisheries supervisor GREENVILLE — Every fall, the Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife in Greenville coordinates with hydro companies to maximize fishing opportunities in the region on rivers with dams.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine’s progress in salmon restoration over the last decade is inspiring Atlantic Canada to work harder toward its goals for the fish, the new president and chief executive officer of the Atlantic Salmon Federation said.

MILO — The Penquis Valley High School Key Club’s inaugural Hue on You 5K Run/Walk will take place on Sunday, Sept.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Fishermen who read the Bangor Daily News/Piscataquis Observer story about how the state is looking to define and regulate floating camps brought up a few concerns about their ice shacks.