Wrong-way Driver Slams Into 18-wheeler

ORONO – University of Maine Cooperative Extension and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar for home gardeners about how to extend the growing season from 6–7:15 p.m. on Monday, Feb 7. “Extending the Gardening Season in New England” includes season-extension strategies ranging from targeted use of mulches and row covers to the use of small high tunnels, with in-depth guidance for how to build and implement these tools in home gardens.

LOUDONVILLE, New York — Madelyn Buck has been named to the Siena College dean’s list for the fall 2021 semester. Madelyn is from Hampden. To be named to the dean’s list, a student’s grade point average for the semester must be between 3.5 and 3.89.

This story will be updated. Two more Mainers have died and another 1,367 coronavirus cases reported across the state, Maine health officials said Friday. Friday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 165,691, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 164,324 on Thursday.

This past fall, OUT Maine’s Executive Director Jeanne Dooley had a flash of inspiration. What if school libraries had more inclusive books available to their students? OUT Maine, an organization that serves LGBTQ+ youth in Maine, already had recommended reading lists for families and educators on its website. The key was to get these books into the libraries. The Read the Rainbow campaign began!

WASHINGTON — Sales of previously occupied homes fell in December for the first time in four months as many would-be buyers were frustrated by a lack of available houses, which fell to the lowest level in more than two decades. Existing home sales dropped 4.6 percent last month from November, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of nearly 6.2 million, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday.

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics and policy. He taught political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio and DePauw University. Here come the one-year retrospectives of Joe Biden’s presidency as the anniversary arrived this week.