Playing high school fall sports, including football, received a unanimous vote of support Wednesday from the sports medicine committee of the Maine Principals’ Association.

Bear hunters who head into the woods on opening day, Monday, Aug.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Perhaps no one in Maine is more eager for the high school football season to begin than Logan Martin.

What better way to usher in fall than spending Labor Day weekend taking part in the Chesuncook Salmon Derby, September 5 and 6? First prize for the largest salmon caught is a $500 cash prize, and another $500 will be awarded to the lucky angler selected in the fish pool drawing! There will be other prizes as well.

The group that oversees huge tracts of the state’s industrial forest is warning hunters and other potential travelers to expect plenty of company in the coming weeks, and is asking for visitors to be considerate during their trips to northern Maine.

Maine’s annual bear hunt will look slightly different when it begins in a week.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Ice Arena and the Piscataquis Regional YMCA have reopened after shutting down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Class C and D boys and girls soccer state championship games scheduled for Nov.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy is set to resume its preparations for the fall sports season on Monday, nearly two weeks after two students participating in a summer conditioning program at the Dover-Foxcroft school tested positive for COVID-19.

The brook trout fishing over the past few years in Moosehead Lake has been special.

The Maine Principals’ Association expects to make its recommendation regarding the high school fall sports season on Aug.

No decision has been reached yet on high school sports in Maine this fall.

The Glowa petition, a perfectly legal maneuver by Maine anti-hunting activist John Glowa, was his groups’ third attempt to ban bear hunting as we know it in our state.

If the Maine Principals’ Association follows suggested guidelines for physical education classes provided recently by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.

We have evidence of a few shore-spawning sites in the Moosehead Lake.

Tim Wakeland spent his summers running around Sebec Lake and entering road races.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Saturday Aug.

Two students at Foxcroft Academy have tested positive for the coronavirus, and they had participated in the Dover-Foxcroft school’s preseason athletic workouts before the school called them off Tuesday, according to the academy’s head of school.