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6 of 6 Dirigo High School seniors Cole Brown, left, and Derek Ducharme carry the new sign Monday for the "Bob McPhee Baseball Diamond" in Dixfield. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal DIXFIELD — Bob McPhee, a former longtime sportswriter for the Lewiston Sun Journal and now an assistant baseball coach at Dirigo High School, never allowed a wheelchair to restrain him from leading a full life of inspiration and perseverance. Members of this tight-knit community came out in droves to honor a courageous man on Monday afternoon before the Leavitt-Dirigo baseball game. Dirigo renamed the baseball field at H...

Including Alan Partridge, Jason Manford and Kim Noble Alan Partridge, Jason Manford and topical Radio 4 show The Skewer are up for the biggest award in audio comedy. But the shortlist for this year’s Arias – the Audio & Radio Industry Awards – includes less high-profile programmes too. Also nominated in the comedy category are Kim Noble’s independently produced podcast Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow), BBC Radio Wales show The Musical Life Of… and Radio 4’s  multi-ethnic sketch show Sketchtopia, hosted by  Hardeep Singh Kohli. Noble’s ten-episode show, released last aut...

Aurora swears in new council member, appoints council liaisons Aurora Advertiser The Aurora City Council officially welcomed new council member Tony Kennedy at the Apr. 13 city council meeting. Kennedy and Doyle Ferguson, who has been on council and re-ran for a city council seat, were the two candidates that ran for the two open council seats. Kennedy and Ferguson were sworn in by City Clerk Kimberly Breedlove before the Mayor and Chairman Pro-Tem were elected. Dawn Oplinger, a council member since 2016, was elected as Mayor and Jason Lewis, a council member since 2020, was elected as Chairm...

The week's best comedy on demand The week's best comedy on demand. For more streaming gigs use the search box with 'online' as the region and the date you want. Now COLD CASE CRIME CUTS: From Jon Holmes, creator of Radio 4's trippy topical comedy The Skewer, comes this spoof true-crime podcast. Based on the music of Barry Manilow, Bob Marley, Michael Jackson and more, the authentic-sounding American public radio journalist Mason Lane gets to the bottom of mysteries such as Who Shot The Sheriff and, in the first episode out now, what happened at the Copacabana… Subscribe at all the usual pod...

okayafrica Image via Flickr Creative Commons. Security Forces in Ghana Shut Down LGBT Rights Group's Office Security Forces in Ghana Target New LGBT Rights Group Centre LGBT+ Rights Ghana's new centre has reportedly been raided by Ghana's National Security just a month after it officially opened. The centre has closed out of concerns for safety as it continues to be the subject of intimidation. According to several reports, the offices of prominent queer rights group LGBT+ Rights Ghana have been raided by the country's security forces. The rights group alleges that the move...