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This story was originally published in January 2023. After Stephen Dunn. This time of year, I love cold still nights when temperatures plummet to single digits. I love sitting by the woodstove and pulling old tip-ups from pack baskets. I love tying on fresh leaders, hooks right out of the package. I love the wooden clanks the traps make. I love a perfectly rigged trap with a button threaded so I can place bait exactly where I want. I love precision amidst our harshest season. I love the efficiency of a good trap, how it trips again and again, how its beams display years in dents. I love how each one folds down into something smaller. I love the first walk out, ice too thin for snowmobiles or four-wheelers. I love the shackless lake. I love the quiet, the lack of auger sounds. I love the view through black ice, how if you look long enough the frozen air bubbles resemble stars in space. I love how I can walk on water, or through the night sky. I love how easily my heavy sled drags over glare ice. I love the bite of crampons with every step. I love the newness of it, love knowing this all will melt in a couple of months. I love knowing there will be no Jet Skis. I love thinking of the fish’s view — giant lid over their heads. I love imagining them watching the bottoms of my boots. I love that first chisel into black ice. I love ice spray and the hollow thud right before I break through. I love how the lake seeps out, as if from a wound, how water pours and refreezes in uneven pools. I love the visual confirmation of safety: 3 inches of clear, black ice. I love standing atop cracks knowing I’m safe. I love the way water bobs in the chiseled holes the closer I walk. I love that others love it, too. I love walking single file, 50 feet apart from my friend, Jersey, whose real name is Steve; love that we both carry throw-bags, love that he doesn’t mind when I remind him what state he’s from. I love knowing we’re prepared and hope we never need those preparations. I love knowing Jersey’s summer job involves throwing rope to ejected rafters. I love that he shows up early every time we fish. I love that Jersey skims holes and sets traps with steady diligence. I love how he takes FaceTime calls from his young son, shows him the trap he’s resetting. I love his optimism. More than the tripped trap, I love the moment before, the flag held down by the tiny O-ring. I love the simple physics, the harnessed potential. I love the shape of the set trap, too, like half a heart. I love the moment of recognition: Flag! I love the way, once called, that word punctuates everything else: meals, conversations, it doesn’t matter. I love the possibilities the word contains. I love yelling it but I love hearing it yelled just as much. I love the way the flag hovers, a cloth beacon of hope. I love running, the way Jersey and I run, to the first tripped traps of the new year. I love being out of breath in winter clothes. I love how heavy my boots feel those last few yards. I love the moment before I see the spool. I love the way my mind turns, in that moment. I love the spool-blur only big fish produce. I love the direct connection — no rod, no reel. I love the headshakes, the long, finger-burning runs. I love lifting fish from the darkness, as if the lake has given birth. I love releasing fish, and I love keeping a few white perch for dinner — pan-seared, with a squeeze of lemon juice. I love the simplicity of jig poles. I love that salmon hunt just beneath the ice. I love that pike piss off the purists.I love that in the first photo of me fishing I’m sitting on the floor of an ice shack with my hand stuck in a Cheez-It box. I love that I only see certain people on the ice, year after year, though I know they live nearby all year round.I love how voices carry over ice. I love skillet-seared venison on a Coleman stove. I love bald eagles waiting for discarded baits. I love fishless days because we were out there trying. I love getting into bed, after. I love…

Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com Although I do not live in Bangor, I am writing to express my strong disappointment with the Bangor legislators who not only supported but sponsored LD 1806, “An Act to Create a Residential Rental Unit Registry,” including Reps. Ambureen Rana and Amy J. Roeder. LD 1806 goes far beyond the creation of a simple registry. It introduces the potential for fines and penalties for noncompliance and expands government authority into private property decisions that have historically been handled at the local level. These provisions erode property owner rights while offering no meaningful or realistic solution to Maine’s housing shortage. For years, I believe Bangor’s representation has drifted away from common-sense, practical leadership and toward an ideology with what I see as a well-documented record of failure. This bill exemplifies that shift. It increases bureaucracy, paperwork, and enforcement mechanisms, yet produces not a single new housing unit. Bureaucracy doesn’t build homes — people do. If lawmakers are serious about improving housing availability, they should focus on policies that encourage construction, rehabilitation, and responsible ownership, rather than measures that penalize participation and discourage investment. Bangor was once known for pragmatic problem solving grounded in reality. I think it is time for its leadership to return to those roots and pursue solutions that strengthen — not undermine — housing stability for Bangor and the surrounding communities. David Giles Corinth

Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com The United States already has strong treaties allowing basing of troops in Greenland and the island and Denmark are members of NATO. There has been no evidence presented that the Russians and Chinese are trying to take over Greenland. The president has zero legitimate rationale to invade or otherwise “acquire” Greenland. I think Congress must introduce a bill that states, without question or reservation, that they will not accept the acquisition of Greenland as a possession, colony, commonwealth, state or other device through either purchase or through military invasion. It needs to be done immediately. Greg Rossel Troy