HAMPDEN — Throughout the inaugural regular season of 8-player soccer the Penquis Valley High School girls kept the opposition from getting the ball in the team’s net with tremendous success, earning 12 shutouts in 14 games and allowing just three goals in the other two games, which were also victories, to finish with a perfect 14-0 record and the top seed for the Small School North playoffs.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Who’s right is not an argument I want to pursue when people have rifles loaded to hunt deer, but there is such a thing as hunting etiquette.

GUILFORD — Over 100 participants gathered at Friends of Community Fitness on Saturday, Oct.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff This story will be updated.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff In the wake of the deadly shootings in Lewiston, the Maine Principals Association has altered its schedule of state championship events.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff The Foxcroft Academy Ponies have dominated northern Maine football in recent years, going a combined 29-1 since the start of 2021 and winning two consecutive Class D championships.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Gates that block vehicle access to logging roads owned by Pine State Timber near Katahdin Iron Works have changed how people can get to a popular trail that goes to the peak of White Cap Mountain.

GUILFORD — Friends of Community Fitness wrapped up the first season of pickleball leagues on Tuesday, Oct.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A late goal helped the SeDoMoCha Middle School field hockey team top Ridge View Community School 1-0 in the Penquis League championship on the turf at the Jim Robinson Field House on Saturday, Oct.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine high school football gave us an appealing slate of games this past weekend, with eight-player large and small kicking off their playoff circuits, and Classes B, C and D playing their regular season finales.

Runner and Pace Jarrett earn state meet bids BELFAST — The Foxcroft Academy boys cross country team just missed qualifying for the next weekend’s state championship at the 2023 Class C North championship on Saturday, Oct.

LINCOLN — The SeDoMoCha Middle School cross country team concluded the season by taking part in the Penquis Valley Middle League Inland Championship at Mattanawcook Academy on Oct.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff The playoffs are here, but if you can’t make it to the field to watch the games in person, don’t worry.

By Julie Harris, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine will hold its first two-day youth deer hunt on Friday and Saturday.

GUILFORD — With the regular season winding down for soccer teams across the state, Piscataquis Community High School hosted Lee Academy in an 8-player Small School North matchup under the lights on Saturday evening, Oct.

By Sam Canfield, Bangor Daily News Staff BUCKSPORT — Big losers in two straight, the reeling 3-3 Dexter Regional High School Tigers bounced back 24-22 on Friday, Oct.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Heading into an interclass field hockey game on the turf at the Jim Robinson Field House between Class C North Foxcroft Academy and Class B North member Erskine Academy of South China during the early afternoon of Saturday, Oct.

ELLSWORTH — Foxcroft Academy junior Runner Jarrett came in sixth among Class C runners and the Pony boys were seventh in the team standings during the 2023 Penobscot Valley Conference cross country championship on Saturday, Oct.