GUILFORD — There was a lot to celebrate off the field for the Piscataquis Community High School girls soccer team prior to and after a game against Lee Academy on the afternoon of Oct.

BELFAST — Foxcroft Academy joined some of the top runners from across Maine and New England at the 2021 Maine Cross County Festival of Champions on Oct.

By BDN Sports At Madison on Friday night, Oct.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff The Maine Cross Country Festival of Champions will still be feeling some effects of COVID-19 when the 20th edition of the state’s largest high school cross country meet is held Saturday at the Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff It should be another productive fall bird hunting season in Maine.

GUILFORD — Picataquis Community Secondary School announces its 2021 Homecoming activities, the public is welcome.

MILO — Penquis Valley High School had little trouble with Mattanawcook Academy of Lincoln on Sept.

OLD TOWN — The Foxcroft Academy cross country team took part in the 71st Old Town Sectional Meet on Sept.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — Bangor’s Cameron Stadium is on track to host its first high school sporting event on its new artificial-turf, multipurpose field as soon as later this week, either a field hockey match Thursday, a football game Friday night or a schoolgirl soccer match Saturday morning.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff Spending a crisp morning pursuing ruffed grouse is among the highlights of the fall season for Maine bird hunters.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff The bang of shotguns is audible again throughout much of Maine.

By John Holyoke Each year around this time, my hunting buddies and I light up our group text chain with optimistic thoughts about the upcoming deer season.

This first appeared in the October 2021 issue of Bangor Metro Magazine.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff Scouting for white-tailed deer can help a hunter have a successful season, especially for those who are lucky enough to gain access to a new piece of property.

Drury rushes for three touchdowns DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy remained unbeaten after defeating Freeport High School 28-12 in a battle of 2-0 teams — representing the North and South geographic extremes of Class D — on Friday, Sept.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine’s small-school class for 11-player football teams is barely 50 percent of what it was just two years ago.

BANGOR — Runners from Dexter Regional High School, Foxcroft Academy and Piscataquis Community Secondary School joined Penobscot Valley Conference teams of varying sizes during a Sept.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff When Chad Cooper tried to enroll his son in Dexter’s recreation department sports teams about 15 years ago, he was originally turned down because the youngster wasn’t quite old enough for the available programming.