By Paula Brewer, The Star-Herald Staff An Aroostook County native is working to put Maine’s portion of the International Appalachian Trail in more people’s sights.

GUILFORD — Friends of Community Fitness’ Riverfest 5K kicked off the Piscataquis River Festival on Saturday morning, July 27 with 35 runners taking part.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff The deadline to apply for your 2024 antlerless deer permit is coming up in just a couple of days.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy Pony Pride 3.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff LEWISTON — Lewiston High School’s Don Roux Field was packed full on Saturday afternoon, July 20 for the annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl, an East-West All-Star football game recognizing more than 130 of the best players and cheerleaders from the Class of 2024.

The Sebec Lake Association, together with the Lake Stewards of Maine, will host a plant paddle workshop on Tuesday, Aug.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Todd Mercer of Poland saw the boy fly fishing at the boat launch of Big Eddy Campground for a couple of days.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff The annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic is contested by high school football stars from Eastern Maine and Western Maine, to raise funds for the Shriner Children’s Hospitals and give the 90-plus recent graduates one final chance to represent their hometown schools.

By Chris Sargent We were just a few yards from shore, but for Bridger it might as well have been the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Gene Bahr of Sebago quit taxidermy cold turkey after 47 years of preserving people’s memories through thousands of life-like mounts of animals, birds and fish.

By Aislinn Sarncki I bought pepper spray a few days ago.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy Pony Pride 3.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Fishermen need to keep the legal togue they catch from Moosehead if the lake is going to stay a healthy fishery, according to a state biologist.

By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Mainers in the northern half of the state are used to seeing an eclectic array of people winding their way along the Appalachian Trail — usually, in the final few hundred miles of the more than 2,000 mile journey by foot that begins in Georgia and ends on Katahdin, a spectacular finale for one of the most epic hikes in the world.

By Moosehead Lake Region Regional Fisheries Supervisor Tim Obrey Well, to quote from Maine’s most prominent philosophers (also known as “Bert and I”), last winter was just “one big fizzle after another.

LAKE VIEW PLANTATION — The sixth annual Schoodic Lake Charity Bass Tournament will take place from 7 a.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff An artificial lure used to just be a painted or shiny piece of metal in a large teardrop or fish shape with hooks on it.

GUILFORD — The 2024 class of the Piscataquis Community High School Athletic Hall of Fame has been announced.