Good morning. Temperatures will be in the low 40s to low 50s from north to south with mostly sunny skies throughout the state. Here's what we're talking about in Maine today.

• One of Maine’s few remaining shoe manufacturers plans to double its workforce and at least triple revenue over the next five years, and it will do so deliberately, using lessons learned from the past.

  Quoddy, a moccasin maker started in 1947 by Anne and Jack Spiegel, at one time had 1,000 employees in Auburn and more than 30 retail stores.

• A pair of lifelong friends from Bristol found freedom in hiking an average of 20 miles a day — 352 football fields of all kinds of terrain — for six months this year.

  With limited hiking experience, Bo McLain, 26, and Dalton Leeman, 25, started their hike of the Appalachian Trail on April 10 at Springer Mountain in Georgia, the southern terminus of the trail. They ended their trek Oct. 2.

• A Bangor car rental agency most likely discriminated against a local woman when it gave a full-time position last year to a 20-year-old instead of the 61-year-old, according to the Maine Human Rights Commission.

  Commissioners, in a 4-0 vote, found in August that there were reasonable grounds to believe that Avis had discriminated against Beth Carey, now 62, of Bangor on the basis of age.

• Kevin Russell was released from a Maine prison on Oct. 1 after serving 16 months for operating a methamphetamine lab.

  The 46-year-old wanted to return to the Bangor area to be close to his teenage daughter but knew he’d need support to stay off drugs.

• The Trojans' boys and girls squads promote the value of all team members' contributions and foster a sense of belonging and camaraderie.

• Hunter orange is a vibrant color with one job: to keep people visible. Throughout November, during Maine’s firearm season for deer, hunters are required by law to wear this bright hue. But for non-hunters, donning this color is optional.

  So why should non-hunters wear hunter orange?