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Dear Friends: Peace, beauty and continuity
In this time of unique challenge, we would like to share images of Maine with you in the hope that they bring some sense of peace, beauty and continuity. We hope you will enjoy the additional tastes of Maine that will follow in the weeks ahead. Please take very...
Escape the news cycle… without leaving the USA
By Glen Birbeck --- The Buzz During my time in Ecuador, when escaping the Maine winter, I encountered all sorts of people. Not just nationalities, something that means less and less in our "connected" world. The Asian and the African at home both have dishes pointed...
SCIENTISTS HAVE TAUGHT SPINACH TO SEND EMAILS
It may sound like something out of a futuristic science fiction film, but scientists have managed to engineer spinach plants which are capable of sending emails…
Down Maine Street With Phil Groce: Giving Back
I generally interview the first person who speaks to me when I enter a business. Elissa Bower first spoke to me in the Good Tern Co-op, and she was standing by the sandwich counter. I thought she made the sandwiches, but come to find out, her hangout is the small...
Heavenly Threads needs your HELP!
Heavenly Threads Thrift Shop is in need of good quality sellable items to fill up our shop! Our monies go to local non profits! Questions? Call us at 236-3203 Donation days/times: Tuesday 10-3, Wednesday-Friday 9-11 57 Elm St Camden
Tune into a unique tour of music — the flipside, on wrfr.
Sundays - 11:00 A.M. TO Noon on WRFR FM 93.3 or WRFR.org The Flipside show is a tour through Spike's collection of sound recordings that are kept in his inner sanctum known as 'The Flipside'. Spike's thousands of sound recordings are in the form of 78 rpm records,...
A Lot of People Eat Soup
Down Main Street with Phil Groce --- Sixteen years ago, I interviewed Lee Smith on WRFR because of his soup-making at what was then, Second Read Books and Coffee, and more recently, Rock City Cafe. Now 44 years old, he has been working there in the kitchen thru it all...
Where is this swab Going?
By Barbara A Walsh, The Maine Monitor —
As she drops the cotton swabs between the tiny teeth on the conveyor belt chain, Irene Chase cannot help but wonder, “Where is this one going today?”
“Is it going to a hospital, or the armed forces, or is it going to a foreign country?” Chase silently muses.