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Eagles swim team makes waves at state meet

School records broken

Superior performance from new vegetable varieties

All-America Selections have been announced for January 2020. These are the best performers among new and improved plants and seeds for home gardeners.

Second half surge lifts Eagles over Fort Fairfield

BANGOR— The George Stevens Academy Eagles used a 41-point second half to upend the Fort Fairfield Tigers 67-39 in a Class C quarterfinal contest at the Cross Insurance Center on February 18.

Sheriffends Stonington patrols

STONINGTON—The Hancock County sheriff stopped sending deputies to patrol Stonington in mid-January when he discovered the town intended to put the $70,516 contract on a referendum ballot in March.

Mariner girls survive Schenck, face Katahdin in semifinals

The girls basketball team survived a tough game to beat Schenck 43-40 in a quarterfinal matchup February 15 at the Cross Insurance Cneter in Bangor.

Mariner boys upset #2 Schenck in quarterfinal

BANGOR—The boys basketball team pulled offa major upset, beating #2 Schenck 63-57 in the quarterfinals February 17 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. If you were able to watch this game, you were treated to a real gem. Myles Brown had a big first half with 15 points as we trailed 28-27 at the half.

GSA swim team heads into post-season

PVCs this weekend, state championship follows

Deer Isle Selectmen propose 5.6 percent spending increase

Property revaluation to kick offthis spring

Eagles, Mariners rock GSA gym in overtime game

Both teams headed to playoffs

Trump's Quiet War On Iran Gets Loud

The US Drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on January 2, 2020, seemed to many Americans like the start of a war.

Indoor Track Teams Prepare For Championship

BLUE HILL—The George Stevens Academy boys and girls indoor track teams closed out their regular seasons on February 1 with a meet against both large and small schools. The girls took fourth overall out of eight teams, while the boys came in sixth out of nine teams.

The NUCLEAR FAMILY Was a MISTAKE

The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half-century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.

The New Rules of Music Snobbery

Hulu’s High Fidelity reboot captures the end of elitist condescension and the rise of fervent eclecticism.

The Art of Second Chances

In Emily St. John Mandel’s disaster-steeped fiction, a derailed life can take multiple forms.

The Abortion Doctor and His Accuser

When a reproductive- rights activist accused one of the most respected physicians in the movement of sexually assaulting her, everyone quickly took sides. The divide exposed differences among women that are typically expressed only in private.

THE 2020 DISINFORMATION WAR

DEEPFAKES, ANONYMOUS TEXT MESSAGES, POTEMKIN LOCAL-NEWS SITES, AND OPPOSITION RESEARCH ON REPORTERS—A FIELD GUIDE TO THIS YEAR’S ELECTION AND WHAT IT COULD DO TO THE COUNTRY

IN PRAISE OF THE HERD MENTALITY

How the human instinct to conform could help us meet the challenge of the climate crisis

Stonington Salt Shed Comes In Under Budget

Town responds to unfunded mandate to protect groundwater

Can You Still Trust Nate Silver?

The leader of the data revolution believes he got 2016 right—and the rest of the media is in danger of getting 2020 wrong.

The Supreme Court's Enduring Bias

Over the past half-century, siding with the powerful against the vulnerable has been the rule in almost every area of the law.

Abraham Lincoln's Radical Moderation

What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t

THE MUCKRAKERS

How a bunch of gutsy Ukrainian journalists helped light the fuse that led to Trump’s impeachment

SOUTHERN STRATEGY

Jaime Harrison is running to unseat Lindsey Graham. Does he have the blueprint to flip the Senate?

GHOST STORIES

Hooking up while trans at the latest frontier of misogyny

FIELD OF SCHEMES

Are foreign fraudsters undermining American organic meat?

Wiped Out

The hunt for a missing bacterium that might cure our modern ailments

The Man Who Would Beat King

Can a Big Ag–bashing minor league baseball player take down Congress’ most ardent white nationalist? Not if Republicans get him first.

Of Two Minds

By insisting that boys' and girls' brains are wired differently, proponents of single-sex education are selling all kids short.

'The Black Hills are Not for Sale'

The Lakota are fighting to protect their most sacred sites from mining—again.

GSA swim team heads into post-season

PVCs this weekend, state championship follows