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Some of Maine’s most well-known voices face the music.

Do you ever have trouble putting names to faces? What about faces to voices? Radio has been around since 1920, when the first commercial station, KDKA in Pittsburgh, Penn., began to broadcast. Though we live in an age of unimaginable technological advances – who would have believed even 30 years ago that we would all […]

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Ashley Brown, happy mom and surrogate mom

Are you like me? Have you always wondered about surrogate mothering and how it worked but were afraid to ask? I hear you. It’s a lofty concept that’s not easy to get the mind around. Everything I know about the business of surrogacy I learned through an episode of “American Dad.” Fortunately, I have become […]

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How to survive a Maine winter

Look at you, sitting in front of the television like a lump of dirty clothes. Go outside, my friend. Get some fresh air and exercise. Just because it’s cold and the land is a dead thing buried in snow, that’s no reason to mope. Why, back in my day, we went outside every chance we […]

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Face Time: Ben Nadeau, electromechanical engineer extraordinaire

When Ben Nadeau and his Gentoo teammates created a portable infusion harness, they just wanted to help people. The $10,000 prize they recently won? That will help them help.  Nadeau, an electromechanical engineering student at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, was part of the team that created the harness. If produced and put […]

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What’s on the air at Great Falls TV

Tucked away in the corner of Auburn’s Central Maine Community College’s Kirk Hall, Great Falls Television is Lewiston, Auburn and Lisbon’s public access station. Established in November 1999, the two-man crew and equipment at GFTV are funded by franchise fees from TimeWarner Cable in Lewiston and Auburn, a small fee charged to the town of […]