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BANGOR — Toby Leboutillier defies the norms of modern radio.
He plays 100-year-old records made of shellac, which can be badly scratched or chipped. He reads 50- or 60-year-old news stories from Maine newspapers on air. He pronounces every word with painstaking precision – Feb-bru-ary for instance – in a distinctive dialect that sprung from his upbringing in Philadelphia and Maine, and a stint at an English boarding school.