The Orono Bog Boardwalk will close at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 15, six weeks earlier than normal, to allow for phase three of the boardwalk reconstruction process. Between the mid-October closure of the boardwalk and next spring’s reopening, 48 sections of the boardwalk will be replaced, along with one interpretive station and one wheelchair […]

“Are there snakes in these woods?” my 4.5-year-old niece, Willa, asked me as we walked side by side into the Rolland F. Perry City Forest on Saturday, June 4, in Bangor. “Yeah, but they’re nice snakes,” I told her. “They won’t hurt you.” “Oh,” she said, her brown ponytail bobbing as she strutted ahead on […]