By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff Austin Seavey hasn’t always been the biggest kid on the football field.

By Aislinn Sarnacki, Bangor Daily News Staff This season’s first snow was a sparkling surprise, sneaking in overnight and covering the landscape with a fluffy white blanket.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff GUILFORD – First-year Piscataquis Community High School of Guilford girls basketball coach Diane Rollins admits that coaching is in her blood.

A number of members of the 8-man Small School champion Dexter Regional High School football team earned postseason recognition from the Little Ten Conference.

A week-plus after winning the Class D championship, members of the Foxcroft Academy football team received Class D postseason honors.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff It has been another highly successful year for deer hunters in Maine.

Adults up, chicks down, but what does it all mean? As Maine Audubon releases the data from its 2021 Annual Loon Count, it underscores the importance of long-term studies and highlights the need to look beyond the one-day count to understand the data.

By Pete Warner, Bangor Daily News Staff I admit it.

The discovery of “forever chemicals” in deer in central Maine and the subsequent guidance to not eat the meat raises serious questions about whether it is safe to consume venison killed in areas of the state where high levels of the chemicals have been detected or are suspected to exist.

The Maine Field Hockey Association is pleased to announce this year’s All-State and All-Academic teams, which include four players from the region.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff BANGOR — The Foxcroft Academy football team has thrived on balance throughout the 2021 season and used its best on both offense and defense during the fourth quarter Friday night, Nov.

A number of athletes from the region earned postseason recognition from the Penobscot Valley Conference: Golf Class C Dexter: Chase Farnsworth, Caitlyn Chabot; Girls Player of the Year: Caitlyn Chabot, Dexter; PVC runner-up: Dexter.

BANGOR — Trailing 16-12 at the start of the fourth quarter in the 2021 Class D championship on the new turf at Cameron Stadium on Nov.

By Aislinn Sarnacki Fat, red maple leaves littered the trail, a crimson carpet threaded with tree roots.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff The Maine Principals’ Association and several other state agencies on Nov.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff When Foxcroft Academy and Winthrop-Monmouth Academy-Hall-Dale play for the Class D football state championship Friday night, they won’t have a ton of mutual history to draw upon.

Analysis By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff The University of Maine field hockey team deserved a better fate.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff The play evolved like something Bryce Connor might have done years earlier with some of his buddies on a side field while the older kids were playing nearby on the bigger stage, Tiger Field in Dexter.