By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Twenty-four hours makes a huge difference between safe ice and taking a cold swim this year.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff Old Town High School senior forward Saige Evans, whose 26 points and 16 rebounds led her Coyotes to a 58-42 victory over defending state champ and undefeated Ellsworth in the Class B North championship game, was an overwhelming choice as the recipient of the Owen Osborne Most Valuable Player award in the 2024 B North tournament.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff It was his first time ever to catch a fish through the ice, but Solomon Hadley’s fishing guide thinks it probably won’t be his last.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff It’s not your imagination.

LEWISTON – Maine Public announces the upcoming schedule for the station’s  coverage of the 2024 Maine state basketball championships games.

By Pete Warner, Special to the Bangor Daily News BANGOR — During the last two seasons, the Dexter Regional HIgh School girls basketball team has been in many close games.

Organizers of the Piscataquis Radar Runs have canceled the snowmobile races scheduled for March 2 in Dover-Foxcroft because of a lack of snow and warm weather in the forecast.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — The top-seeded and defending Class C North champion Dexter Regional High School girls avenged their only loss, using an 11-3 run to close out the first half on the way to a 42-27 win over fourth seed Mattanawcook Academy of Lincoln at the Cross Insurance Center on Thursday night, Feb.

AUGUSTA — The top-seeded girls from Upper Kennebec Valley High School of Bingham defeated No.

ORONO — Foxcroft Academy students Dylan Coy and Maddy Gaylord both placed at the 2024 girls Class B swimming and diving championship on Tuesday, Feb.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — The top-seeded Dexter High School girls held eighth seed Mount View of Thorndike to one first-half point in building a 23-1 lead and cruised to a 43-20 Class C North quarterfinal win at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Tuesday night.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — The top-seeded Calais High School boys basketball team scored the game’s first 25 points en route to a 57-33 Class C North quarterfinal win over undermanned eighth seed Piscataquis Community High School of Guilford at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor Tuesday night.

LEWISTON — Three athletes between Foxcroft Academy and Piscataquis Community High School scored points at the 2024 Class B indoor track and field state championship at Bates College on Monday, Feb.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Her jacket sleeve is still frozen and the garment smells too fishy to bring into the family’s camp, but Rachel McMannus of Old Town is all smiles.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — The No.

RUMFORD — The Piscataquis Community High School wrestling team finished the day with a score of 53 points to place eighth among 25 schools at the 2024 Class B championship at Mountain Valley High School on Saturday, Feb.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff After playing her first three high school basketball tournaments at the Bangor Auditorium, Van Buren High School star Parise Rossignol got off the bus her senior year to play at the brand new $65 million Cross Insurance Center, which had replaced the Bangor Auditorium.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff Fans of the boys and girls high school basketball tournaments who can’t make it to the venues can watch nearly every dribble and shot thanks to livestreaming provided by three organizations: the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Network, WHOU and the Maine Public Broadcasting Network.