Good morning. Temperatures will be in the high 20s to high 30s from north to south with snow and a wintry mix throughout the state. Here's what we're talking about in Maine today.

• Residents of Jonesport and Beals are hopeful that a $110 million aquaculture operation proposed by a Dutch company can help boost and diversify the area’s economic prospects without sacrificing the rural, hard-working character of what has been a fishing town for more than 200 years. But residents also don't want too much to change.

• Many of the stories that Bangor Daily News readers cared about the most this past year had one thing in common: loss.
  
  Here's a look back at the most-read BDN stories of 2019.

The best things we ate in Maine in 2019

• In talking about year-end lists over the past week or two here in the newsroom at the BDN, it dawned on us that one of the most scorned parts of social media — people taking pictures of their food — becomes an invaluable resource when trying to figure out your favorite thing you ate. To wit; we polled various staffers here about what they loved in 2019, and after a quick memory jog, here are their picks.

• Aleya Pelletier has been away from the game for four years, but a desire to play one more season with her twin sister, Halle, and help the Lakers pursue a state championship have brought her back for one final season.

100 essential Maine albums of the decade

• For the most part, the musicians Mainers went to see play live 10 years ago are not the ones they’re seeing now. Times change, but it shouldn’t make the music — or how we shared it — any less important to remember and celebrate.