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Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
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- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/29/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Today is the last day for in-person voting at your town hall The results from Maine’s Student Mock Election are in The Council…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/28/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Part 3 of 3 (continued from previous 2 days) Around Town and Back Again – March 20, 2003, Bangor, Maine: The war in Iraq is…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/27/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Part 2 (continued from previous day) Around Town and Back Again – March 20, 2003, Bangor, Maine: The war in Iraq is expected to…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/26/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Around Town and Back Again – March 20, 2003, Bangor, Maine: The war in Iraq is expected to begin very soon. Area residents make…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/23/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Conservation Law Foundation: Court Upholds State’s Review of Juniper Ridge Landfill Expansion Decision allows state approval to stand…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/21/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Penobscot River Remediation Community Meeting & Drop-in Session this afternoon and evening at the Alamo Theatre, Main Street…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/20/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The City of Ellsworth Invites Volunteers to Help Plant Trees and Shrubs, this week and next. Michael Otzwirk, Ellsworth Community…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/19/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Greenfield Penobscot Estuary Remediation Trust, overseers of the Penobscot River mercury clean up efforts, is hosting a community…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/16/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne In Searsport, Friends of Sears Island has created free constellation-themed activity kits for kids that will be available for…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/15/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The next No Kings! day of action is coming up on Saturday, and will focus on get-out-the-vote efforts. Several events in this area…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/14/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Emily Fitzgerald is here this morning with an invitation to Ghostport, Saturday, 10/17, 10am-10pm, in Bucksport Theme music…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/13/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Avec Community Action, United Way of Aroostook and Heart of Maine United Way are holding an “Energy Assistance Forum to Provide…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/12/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Indigenous Peoples’ Day at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, and Bucksport Town Council approves 6 month moratorium on data…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/9/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Dawn Neptune stops by this morning to invite listeners to the first Indigenous Peoples’ Day Film Festival, Sunday, October…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/8/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Case Closed: First Amendment Win for Cat Jokes and Criticizing Public Officials, ACLU Maine, 6 October 2026 Penobscot Marine Museum…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/7/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne League of Women Voters Non-partisan Election Observer Trainings Events at the Witherle Memorial Library in Castine, tonight and…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/6/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Congresswoman Chellie Pingree of Maine and Democrats from Texas demand that DHS and ICE leaders require agents use body cameras…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/1/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Sardinefest at the Penobscot Marine Museum Indivisible’s “Hands Off Our Vote! Live from NYC: How We Can Protect Our…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/30/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Beth C Wright Cancer Resource Center event, Finding Peace in a Frantic World, a new 8-week mindfulness series led by Jen Harry Jesup…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/29/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Official Maine Elections/Voting Information and Voter Registration More voter information and deadlines from the ACLU of Maine Saving…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/28/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Proposed moratorium on data centers in Bucksport clears first hurdle at September 24th town council meeting Theme music: BreakBeat…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/25/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Penobscot Marine Museum’s Discover the Value: Antiques Appraisal Event, Searsport Second Annual Book It 5k at the Carver…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/24/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Watch Tuesday’s bicameral Congressional shadow hearing on the deaths of several people at the hands of “ICE”…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/23/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Bucksport town council will have a first reading of a proposed moratorium on data centers Thursday evening, after residents…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/22/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and Oversight Democrats will hold a bicameral shadow hearing in Washington this afternoon on…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/21/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Beth Cole from Loaves & Fishes food pantry stops by to let listeners know about their upcoming major fundraiser for 2026 –…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/18/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine CDC confirms measles case in Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife First printing of Maine Constitution since 1876 unveiled in…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/17/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Amy’s coworker and former office-mate Pepin Mittelhauser, WERU’s Digital Operations Manager, runs the sound at most WERU…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/16/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Voting information from the Maine Secretary of State’s office Meet Poutine! Storytime at the Witherle Art Stuff Sale in Belfast…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/15/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne ILAP Statement on Administration’s Failure to Issue a Decision on Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador College of the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/14/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Mary Thibodeau of Hancock County Soil and Water Conservation District is here with an invitation to the 2026 Wild Blueberry…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/11/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Chrissy Fowler, Belfast Flying Shoes and 25 years ago today Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/10/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Sea Chantey Singalongs with Guest Chanteyman Stephen Sanfilippo, this afternoon at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport Orland…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/9/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine CD1 Congresswoman Chellie Pingree’s letter to Speaker Johnson Tuesday, urging resistance to Trump’s efforts to…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 9/8/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Sarah Scamperle from the Blue Hill Coop with details of their Democracy Day events coming up on September 15th. For those planning to…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/28/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows issues statement regarding lawsuit filed by coalition of states regarding USPS anti-mail…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/27/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine DEP Initiates Legal Action Against Mallinckrodt US LLC to Address Cleanup Failures at Orrington Site Greenfield Penobscot…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/26/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Native Gardens of Blue Hill’s Native Fall Plant sale, Saturday, September 12th, 9-noon Sneak preview of the plants online on…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/25/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Thursday afternoon, Friends of Sears Island presents A Sears Island Herb walk, exploring wild and nourishing medicinal plants, with…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/24/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Mike Hurley and a team of volunteers are offering free pontoon boat rides in Belfast Harbor this coming weekend, for people with…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/21/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Second Story Builders 2nd Annual Radical Reuse Festival and Artisan Fair, Saturday in Union Friends of WERU present the film Mary…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/20/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne From Monday’s shadow hearing re ICE killing Biddeford resident Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in that city last month. With no…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/19/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Sue Roche, Executive Director of the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP), testifying Monday in Biddeford, at the shadow hearing…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/18/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The father of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Biddeford resident who was killed by ICE in July, speaking at yesterday’s…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/17/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne One of the OGs of home improvement shows, locally-produced Hot and Cold with Tom Gocze has moved to youtube, with live shows on…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/14/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Margret Baldwin and Dave Hollenburg stop by to invite listeners to the 6th Annual Rural Hall Art Exhibit and Sale at the Surry Rural…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/13/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Judith Sloan and Najla Said, members of the multi-talented team behind Between a Rock and A Hard Place, join Amy this morning. This…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/12/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Shared Tables, Shared Stories event sponsored by the Maine Arts Commission, Maine Humanities, and Community Plate, with funding from…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/11/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Committee to Protect Health Care Announces Endorsements in Maine for U.S. Senate, Governor, and State Legislature Committee to…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/10/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Shaw Institute: Updates on Research, Education, and Public Outreach with Executive Director and Senior Research Scientist Charles…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/7/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Absurdity of Sears Island Industrialization, Steve Miller, Aug 4, 2026 Steve Miller on Subtack Alliance for Sears Island…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/6/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Emergency protest yesterday, by Maine Medical Center RNs demanding ICE release colleague – and Maine Med’s response Dying…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/5/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne As of this week, Mainers can submit online requests for absentee ballots for the mid-term elections Direct link to Maine Secretary of…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/4/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Barcelona concert fundraiser for Bucksport Animal Shelter Foreign Affairs discussion group at the Witherle Memorial Library in…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 8/3/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Preservation at the Witherle Library in Castine John Cariani’s Newest Work Darker the Night, Brighter the Stars Comes to the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 7/31/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Shaina Fraser from Families First in Ellsworth is here today with an invitation to their annual fundraiser and some information about…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 7/30/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Ellsworth’s Downtown Summer Concert series The Witherle Memorial Library in Castine invites the public to join Ms Orado for a showing…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 7/29/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Author Cara Benson on her new book, An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment and her upcoming…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 7/28/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Bucksport’s Wednesday on Main The Blueberry Blues film showing/fundraiser for the Wild Blueberry Collective, tonight at the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 7/27/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne ACLU-Maine’s summary of new laws offering protections against ICE – and a petition to urge state officials to fully…