It’s a warm August morning and the day is getting a little sticky already. Finally, summer is here. The kitchen, though, is cool from the evening air. Rebecca Martin - lyricist, vocalist, musician, mother, wife - is at her mother’s table in Rangeley, slicing tomatoes, onion, mashing avocado and rubbing in spices.

So now, here I am. Standing in line at Rangeley’s Lakeside Theater to listen to a band play Acadian music and it’s not like I don’t know what I’m in for. The announcement is in Acadian French, and the backdrop to the stage is the flag of Acadia, red, white, blue. And the gold star of St Mary. We’re not in Kansas anymore.

RANGELEY - Setting up of the broadcast studio of Rangeley’s Community Radio station WRGY began in earnest last week when Dan Patterson, Ron Hoar, and David McMillan began retro-fitting a portion of the Lakeside Theater.

RANGELEY - Community radio for the Rangeley region has recently taken a huge step toward becoming reality.
David McMillan, president of TRANET, a local educational non-profit, announced that the FCC has granted a construction permit for the establishment of an FM radio station broadcasting from downtown  Rangeley and transmitting from a tower on Saddleback Mountain Ski [...]

For the longest time, Luann Yetter thought that history was “just a lot of wars,” strung together from one conflict to the next.
Then, when moving to Maine, she and her husband Frank Underkuffler bought an old house in New Vineyard and she began to research the history of the edifice, a home to generations of [...]

Decisions, decisions. It’s the evening of October 7th. I can watch the Presidential debates on TV or I can listen to Bob Dylan’s latest “Official Bootleg” on four chunks of newly pressed vinyl. I am acquainted with the Buddhist aphorism, “when faced with two paths, choose the more difficult.” My response? When faced with an uncomfortable [...]

It was Thursday night and I was driving up to Rangeley through a hellacious rain. My radio was tuned, of course, to Steve Bull on WKTJ, as he reported the local weather. He was explaining the rise in tornado watches, as a part of recent Maine weather reports. Seems Doppler radar has sharpened meteorologist’s ability [...]

“What am I doing here?” I frequently ask myself that. Usually it’s in the daily context of the big “meaning of life” stuff that rattles around in my brain as I try to accomplish mundane tasks and give them a degree of value. But once in awhile it’s a real question. Like in this scenario [...]