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Tabloid origins, war correspondent and the only day no papers were delivered: A 130-year history of the Bangor Daily News

Just as the world has changed in incalculable ways over the past 130 years, so has the Bangor Daily News. It’s gone from an upstart young newspaper in the era of lumber barons and horse-drawn wagons

‘I just wanted to protect my friends’: Brewer man recounts downtown Bangor shooting

If the bullet had been an inch or two lower, Jim Parent might well be dead.

These French pilots almost beat Charles Lindbergh across the Atlantic. Did they crash in Maine?

It’s fun to speculate how the course of history might have changed had one thing happened, or not happened. For instance: What if Charles Lindbergh had not been the first person to fly non-stop between New York and Paris?

First American Folk Festival acts include a surf rock band that wears wrestling masks

The 15th annual American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront, set for Aug. 23-25, will feature several new genres for the event, including a surf rock band that wears Mexican wrestling masks during their performances.

2 new Stephen King works to be adapted for the screen

There are two more additions to the seemingly never-ending stream of Stephen King works being adapted into movies and TV series, both announced last week.

Orono, Hermon high schools among regional winners at Maine Drama Festival

The regional competitions for the 2019 Maine Drama Festival — also known as the one-act play festival — were held this weekend in nine locations around the state.

What to know about Maine’s upcoming bicentennial celebration

2020 may seem a long way off, but preparations for Maine’s bicentennial year are already well underway for the committee formed to plan official state events.

A consultant hired to review Maine’s child welfare system found these flaws

Early findings in a new report evaluating eight child welfare cases handled by Maine’s Office of Child and Family Services show a system-wide need for department improvements — a likely precursor for a more comprehensive report to come.

A century ago, about 1 percent of Bangor died from the flu in three months

Maine saw its first death from influenza late last month, after an older resident of Hancock County died during the second to last week of 2018.

Mills renominates three LePage-appointed commissioners

Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday that she will renominate three commissioners who served under former Gov. Paul LePage.

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