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SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — The Coast Guard is ready to provide an update on the conversion of light house foghorns.

The Coast Guard is in the process of updating Maine foghorns that were designed to automatically activate in the presence of fog. It says newer technology activated by mariners via marine radios is safer and more effective. It also tends to result in fewer of the foghorns’ familiar blasts.


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