By John Holyoke, Bangor Daily News Staff When I told my best pals that I’d decided to pursue another professional opportunity, stepping away from regular employment at the Bangor Daily News and heading to graduate school, their response was predictable.

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By Raymond and Danielle Ruby We are a full-time family with jobs and daycare during the week, so trips to Maine’s state parks are our course correction when life needs to slow down a bit.

By John Holyoke, Bangor Daily News Outdoors Editor Over the past 28 years working here at the Bangor Daily News, I’ve had all kinds of adventures.

By Matthew Gagnon A couple months ago, I asked a pretty simple question that I have yet to receive a satisfactory answer to: When, exactly, is all this over? I asked the question then, and I’m asking it again now, because on the rare occasions that public health officials and political leaders are asked, the answers have been vague, unclear, and lacking in any kind of hard target — be they healthcare metrics or some other definable endpoint — that we can hold them accountable to.

By David Farmer The way health care policy treats the human body doesn’t always make sense.

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By Nancy Battick In my last column I wrote about some of the issues you may run into when it comes to dating.

By Tim Caverly For years, Maine park rangers have proudly worn gray uniform shirts as a symbol of protecting our natural resources and the 3 million people who visit.

By Matthew Gagnon I’m glad Derek Chauvin is going to jail.

By David McDermott, MD The warmer spring days are upon us.

By David Farmer Coronavirus is showing us that we don’t have to accept a broken health care delivery system.

By Jim Fahey Aroostook County is canoe country.

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By Jeanne Lambrew As April vacation week begins for Maine students and families, the race between COVID-19 vaccinations and virus variants is in high gear.

By Karl-Heinz Spittler MDOn March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

By Dana Doran In late February, the National Association of Home Builders reported lumber prices in this country had skyrocketed more than 180 percent since April of 2020.

By Matthew Gagnon On Feb.