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"People who are visually impaired or blind are so isolated,
Maine AIRS provides a connectedness." - a listener from Kennebunk, ME.
Maine Airs

This special news and information radio program broadcasts extensive material from Maine's daily and weekly newspapers to individuals who are visually impaired or print disabled. Volunteer readers present information notLocal news is read daily on Maine AIRS usually accessible in audio form such as community calendars, shopping news and obituaries.

Maine AIRS should begin playing on your computer's media player a few seconds after you open this page. If it doesn't, check to see that your speakers are turned on and the volume is up, or that your media player is operating. To hear Maine AIRS without a computer, you need an SCA (subsidiary channel audio) receiver.

For more information about these receivers and how to acquire one, please call the Iris Network at 1-800-715-0097.

Programming Notes:

The Town of Brunswick's TV-3 carries Maine AIRS on the following schedule:

Monday-Friday 9-10 AM
Tuesday & Thursday 11 AM-Noon
Saturday 10 AM-Noon
Sunday 7-9 AM

Maine Airs on Demand
We will begin offering all Maine Airs Programming to download so you may listen at your convenience, on-the-go, or for downloading to your iPod, or other portable audio device.
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NEW! or click here to see the entire schedule of available program downloads:

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The Maine Reader

Monday-Friday 4:00p.m. - 4:30 p.m. and again at 6:30p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Episodes are rebroadcast Saturdays 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Current Book December 28th - February 9th

"E. B. White- A Biography" by Scott Elledge

read by Maine AIRS reader Jonas Klein

Here is a richly detailed and vivid biography of the man who wrote 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Trumpet of the Swan', and 'Stuart Little'; the writer whose style and humor were so important in distinguishing 'The New Yorker's' first thirty years.

This book is now complete

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10
Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14 Part 15
Part 16 Part 17 Part 18 Part 19 Part 20
Part 21 Part 22 Part 23 Part 24 Part 25
Part 26 Part 27 Part 28 Part 29 Part 30
Part 31 Part 32      

Wait Till Next Year:
A Memoir

Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans.

We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin’s early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound; and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers’ leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.

This book is now complete
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10
Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14 Part 15
Part 16        
 
Here If You Need Me

Read by Maine AIRS volunteer reader Margaret Clancey

Broadcast dates: May 6-May 21, 2009

 

Ten years ago, writer Kate Braestrup and her husband Drew were enjoying the life they shared together. They had four young children, and Drew, a Maine state trooper, would soon begin training to become a minister as well. Then early one morning Drew left for work and everything changed. On the very roads that he protected every day, an oncoming driver lost control, and Kate lost her husband.

 

Stunned and grieving, Kate decided to continue her husband's dream and became a Universalist minister herself, and in that capacity she found a most unusual mission: serving as the chaplain on search and rescue missions in the Maine woods, giving comfort to people whose loved ones are missing, and to the game wardens who sometimes have to deal with awful outcomes. This is the story of Braestrup's journey from grief to faith to happiness, an uplifting account about finding God through helping others.

 

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10
Part 11 Part 12      

"Gandhi." by John Severance
It's kind of a Cliff Notes version. Four episodes. Read by Alex Severance. March 27, 30, 31 and April 1.

This book is now complete

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4  
 
Finding Amy
A True Story of Murder in Maine
by Captain Joseph K.Loughlin and Kate Clark Flora

Combining the drama of a true crime story with the detail of a police procedural, Finding Amy chronicles the investigation into one of the most shocking murders in recent Maine history. Twenty-five-year-old Amy St.Laurent was attractive, intelligent, and responsible. One October evening, she went out to show a friend from Florida the exciting nightlife of Portland’s Old Port section. She played pool. She danced. And then she disappeared.
Read by Randi Lebar

February 24 - March 26, 2009
 
This book is now complete
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Maine AIRS Newspaper Schedule at a Glance

Effective November 14, 2009

(RB) = Repeat Broadcast

Monday through Friday: 
 
8 a.m.- 9 a.m. The Daily Papers
Bangor Daily News (8:00 - 8:30)
The Lewiston Sun-Journal (8:50 - 9:00)

8:30 a.m.  Meals for Me- menus for Meals for Me program serving Penobscot, Piscataquis, Hancock and Washington counties. Presented by Eastern Agency on Aging.

8:31 a.m.- What's on TV Tonight? A listing of programs on the major TV networks- NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS.

8:59 a.m.  The Shopping Basket  what's on sale at Hannaford Brothers Supermarkets.

9:00 a.m. Portland Press Herald

9:30 a.m. What's on TV Tonight? A listing of programs on the major TV networks- NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS.

9:35 a.m.-10:00 a.m.:   Kennebec Journal, Waterville Morning Sentinel

10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Taking Just a Moment
Monday: Downeast Magazine
Tuesday: The New Yorker
Wednesday: Prime Time Radio
Thursday: Pet Pause
Friday: AARP Magazine

10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Monday through Friday: Here is What We Think- a program of editorials, letters to the editors and commentaries that appear in Maine's daily and weekly newspapers.

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon The Weekly Shelf Reading from the state's weekly newspapers. Please check daily schedule for newspapers read during this time.

11:30 a.m.  The Shopping Basket  what's on sale at Shaw's Supermarkets.

12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. Portland Press Herald, read from the Portland Maine AIRS studio.

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Bangor Daily News/Lewiston Sun Journal, rebroadcast from this morning.

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The Weekly Shelf (rebroadcast from 11 a.m.)

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Taking Just a Moment
Monday: Downeast Magazine
Tuesday: The Wiscasset Newspaper / Boothbay Register
Wednesday: Prime Time Radio
Thursday: The Weekly
Friday: AARP Magazine

3:30- 4:00 p.m.- Here’s What We Think (Mon, Wed and Fri)

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.  The Maine Reader - presenting books by Maine authors or stories about Maine read by Maine AIRS volunteer readers.

4:30-5:30 - Bangor Daily News/Lewiston Sun Journal, rebroadcast from this morning.

5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Taking Just a Moment
Monday: Downeast Magazine
Tuesday: The Wiscasset Newspaper / Boothbay Register
Wednesday: Prime Time Radio
Thursday: The Weekly
Friday: Pet Pause

6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Health Report

6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The Maine Reader - presenting books mostly by Maine authors or stories about Maine read by Maine AIRS volunteer readers.

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Portland Press Herald
8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Taking Just a Moment
Monday: The People's Pharmacy
Tuesday: Short Stories
Wednesday: Prime Time Radio
Thursday: Sign-off
Friday: The New Yorker

9:00 p.m. Sign-off

Saturday:

8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. The Weekend Bangor Daily News

8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. What's on TV Tonight?

9:00 a.m.  The Shopping Basket- what's on sale at Hannaford Brothers.

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - The Weekly, published by the Bangor Daily News

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - The Portland Phoenix, West End News, The Working Waterfront, The Switch, Munjoy Hill News (rebroadcast at 5:00 p.m.)

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Biddeford Journal tribune 

11:30 a.m. The Shopping Basket - Shaw's Supermarkets

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Midcoast Beacon

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. The Forecaster Falmouth Edition (rebroadcast at 4:30 p.m.)

12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Portland Forecaster

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. The Weekend Bangor Daily News – rebroadcast from this morning.

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. The Weekly, published by the Bangor Daily News

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Biddeford Journal Tribune

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. The Portland Forecaster

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Northern (Falmouth) Forecaster

5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. The Portland Phoenix, West End News, The Working Waterfront, The Switch, Munjoy Hill News.  

5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. The Maine Reader - a rebroadcast of the five daily episodes from the past week

8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Short Stories

9:00 p.m.- Sign off until 7 a.m. Sunday

Sunday:
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.: The Maine Sunday Telegram (rebroadcast at 9 a.m.,11 a.m., and 4:30 p.m.)

8:00 a.m. The Shopping Basket - selected sale items at Hannaford Brothers markets in Maine

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Portland Forecaster
8:30 a.m. What’s on TV Tonight? A listing of prime time programs on the major TV networks- NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS.

8:32 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Midcoast Beacon

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Rebroadcast of the Maine Sunday Telegram

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Biddeford Journal Tribune
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Weeklies - Portland Phoenix, The Switch, West End News, Working Waterfront
 
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Rebroadcast of the Maine Sunday Telegram
 
12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. The Maine Reader- a rebroadcast of the five daily episodes from the past week
 
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Midcoast Beacon
 
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - The Weekly
 
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Weeklies - Portland Phoenix, The Switch, West End News, Working Waterfront
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Maine Sunday Telegram

5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Portland Forecaster

5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Biddeford Journal Tribune

6:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. Bangor Daily News Weekend Edition

8:00 p.m. Sign off until Monday morning at 8 a.m.

 

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