Maine sportsman George Smith dies after 4-year ALS battle

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 13, 2021

Maine sportsman and writer George Smith died at age 72 Friday after a 4-year battle with ALS. Smith stepped down at the end of 2010 from the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine to write full time. A graduate of University of Maine in Orono, he was an outdoor contributor for the Bangor Daily News and wrote weekly editorial-page and travel columns in the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.