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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 4/15/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Joe Oliva from GrowSmart Maine is here to let us know why they are asking Mainers to contact Governor Mills and encourage her to sign…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/14/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The state legislature’s Judiciary Committee has a public hearing scheduled for 9 this morning on LD2239, “An Act to…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/13/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Equality Maine is looking for volunteers to help with Pride and other events across the state, and has launched a Pride 2026 Guide…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/10/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Indivisible– a nationwide movement of millions of people working to stop the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/9/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne A 30 day window opened this week for comments on the draft wording of a citizen initiated referendum question that will be on the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/8/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Ann Luther from the League of Women Voters of Maine, and host of the Democracy Forum on WERU (3rd Friday of every month, 4-5pm, and…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/7/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general — and one governor– in suing Trump over…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/6/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Friends of Sears Island’s April activities About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/3/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Poetry Celebration at the Statehouse this afternoon, organized by the Maine Arts Commission in honor of National Poetry Month…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/2/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responds to Trump’s latest attempt to federalize elections The Maine Department of…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/1/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Chrissy Fowler from Belfast Flying Shoes with events over the next two weekends to get YOUR shoes flying! About the host: Amy Browne…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/31/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Hungry Now screening and discussion at the Colonial Theatre in Belfast tonight, a benefit for Waldo County Bounty “Get Them Out…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/30/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne No Kings Day #3, March 28th, 2026 About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/27/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne No Kings Day #3, March 28th, 2026 No Kings info and event calendar About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/26/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Mary Ann Larson with the details about No Kings Day in Bangor (Saturday 3/28, 12-1 pm), and an Empty Chair Town Hall (Susan Collins…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/25/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne “Youth Ask the Questions: Gubernatorial Primary Candidate Forum” tomorrow evening, 6-8pm, at the Portland Media Center…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/24/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne A Maine Monitor investigation by reporter Josh Keefe has found that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has a new internal affairs…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/23/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Tomorrow evening, 6-7:30PM, the group “No Penobscot County Jail Expansion” is offering a virtual community presentation…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/20/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The 59th annual Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race Midcoast Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build 2026. and Maine headlines from 50…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/19/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Wabanaki Alliance 2026 Maine Gubernatorial Forum at Community Resource Center in Houlton, tonight at 6:00 PM, at the Houlton Band of…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/18/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The 3rd No Kings Day is coming up on March 28th FMI re No Kings Day FMI re No Kings Day events in Maine The Digital Security…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/17/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne An update on Belfast resident Lawrence Reichard’s upcoming trip to Colombia where he plans to meet with the family of one of…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/16/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Berit Becker from the Ellsworth Public Library is here with information about the Indie Lens Pop-up documentary film series that…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/13/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maria Girouard, co-founder of the Sunlight Media Collective, stops by to invite you to a showing of two of their short documentaries…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/12/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Big changes to LD2176 as the state legislature’s Judiciary Committee holds a second public hearing About the host: Amy Browne…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/11/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Loaves & Fishes internet cafe is now open to the public The Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor is currently accepting…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/10/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Ashley Megquier, Outreach Coordinator for Friends of Sears Island, is here with a run down of the activities they have planned this…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/9/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine AFL-CIO rally at the Statehouse for affordable childcare Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 of 2. Part 1 aired Friday, 3/6/26) About the host…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/6/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine AFL-CIO rally at the Statehouse for affordable childcare Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 will air Monday morning, 3/9/26 at 8am) About the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/5/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine CD1 Congresswoman Chellie Pingree speaking to the House Agriculture Committee Tuesday as they debated “The Farm, Food…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/4/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Healthy Peninsula fundraiser for their health programs, featuring the Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers “The Legend of the Banana…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/3/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Indivisible Bangor Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, March 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th at 7 p.m. at the Thomas…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/2/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Jud Esty-Kendall from the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine is here with an invitation to join the P&J center and a…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/27/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne LD 1822, An Act to Enact the Maine Online Data Privacy Act Find Your State Senator (includes contact info) OUT Maine is hosting the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/26/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Following up on yesterday’s report, today organizers of The Consequence of Palestine- (Maine Coalition for Palestine…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/25/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne “The Consequence of Palestine” Conference Coming to USM, Munjoy Hill News, Portland, 18 February 2026 (NOTE: CANCELLED) Press…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/24/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Singing Journalist, Andy Revkin, joins us today with an invitation to his upcoming talk at the Jesup Memorial Library, Thursday…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/23/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine CD 1 Congresswoman Chellie Pingree will boycott Trump’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday and instead participate in a…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/20/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne LD 395, An Act to Restore Access to Federal Laws Beneficial to the Wabanaki Nation LD 785, An Act to Enact the Remaining…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/19/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Brook Minner and Emily Burnham from the Maine Women’s Lobby stop by to invite listeners to the 2026 Hot Ticket Hootenanny: A…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/18/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne In Augusta today, the legislature’s Committee On Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services will be taking comments from…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/17/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne John Jurcheck of the Counter Current Collective is here with a suggestion for your weekend plans (yes, we’re already thinking…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/16/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Presidents’ Day 2026 reading from the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights About the host: Amy Browne started out…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/13/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne World Radio Day 2026 The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) has announced two funding opportunities…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/12/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Voter information update cards from the Secretary of State’s office Rockland’s Emergency Warming Center at the Flanagan…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/11/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne ACLU of Maine‘s Guide to Legislative Advocacy, online, 6-7pm tomorrow/Thursday. Register here At 7pm tomorrow/Thursday evening…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/10/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine CDC Confirms Case of Measles in Maine LD 2071, An Act to Expand Access to Vaccines Approved by the United States Food and Drug…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/9/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Lynn Boulger, Vice President of Advancement at College of the Atlantic, with details on their annual 24 hour fund-raising challenge…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/6/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Cathy Rees, Executive Director and Co-founder of Native Gardens of Blue Hill stops by to talk about Native Gardens of Blue…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/5/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Public hearings and work sessions today in the state legislature’s joint standing committees February 7th is “Take Your…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/4/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne This weekend the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport is offering workshops on Sailor’s Valentines and Sardine Snacks. Space is…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/3/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Updates on the situation with ICE in Maine from the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project and a summary of headlines on stories about the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/2/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Meet Nick Bear and Nolan Altvater from Wabanaki REACH – the new hosts of Dawnland Signals, a monthly public affairs show that…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/30/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Pete Nichols, Executive Director of Penobscot Bay Waterkeeper, with an update on the Little River site (on the Belfast/Northport…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/29/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The No Kings! Coalition has announced March 28th as the next national day of action. Nurses United Against Violence invites the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/28/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Immigration Legal Advocacy Project Maine update on ICE in Maine The Digital Security Discussion Group at the Witherle Memorial…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/27/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has announced that his office now has an email address dedicated specifically to reports of federal…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/26/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Dr. Charles Rolsky from the Shaw Institute in Blue Hill is here with news of their upcoming events – including a…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/23/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Information from the ACLU of Maine Know Your Rights: Immigration Enforcement and Warrants Know Your Rights: Electronic Device…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/22/26: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Courtney and John from Counter Current Collective are here with details of their latest (roving!) production: A Number by Caryl…