In an effort to reduce costs to maintain our investment in local news, the Bangor Daily News has reconfigured some of its weekday and weekend sections.

In the Business section on weekdays, below an easy-to-scan highlight of the previous day’s market activity, we’ve adopted a consolidated compilation of regional and most-active stocks, and have included the familiar commodities, currency and interest rates listings. Although we no longer will publish comprehensive stock listings, they are available in their entirety, with additional market information, on the BDN Web site, bangordailynews.com.

Our weekend Business section will continue to feature the popular Wall Street Journal Sunday, and will include a full page of the most active stocks and a weekly report on the most popular mutual funds. The BDN invites readers to recommend additional stock listings that could be carried in the daily or weekend paper, space permitting. We’ll do our best to accommodate your suggestions. Please send these suggestions or other comments to comments@bangordailynews.net or call 990-8157.

In response to requests to expand the television listings in our weekday papers, the new television grid in the LifeStyle section includes programming from 7 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., adding late-night and early-morning listings to the prime time schedule. The weekend grids will be published unchanged, and will be packaged with the weekend color Comics.

We appreciate our readers’ understanding as we make these adjustments in response to changes in the media marketplace and to customer demands and preferences.