Shows / Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
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)
Episodes
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/16/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Puck, Yeah Productions will present Bottom’s Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Woods Grow Queer — described as “a…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/15/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Joe Neimczura with an invitation to join the band playing at the “Stand Up for Democracy” rally next Saturday at…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/14/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne A look at some of the proposed legislation being presented at legislative committee public hearings in Augusta today – and how…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/11/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The League of Women Voters of Maine has launched a weekly webinar called the Democracy Update. The league describes them as…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/10/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Rockland Public Library presents Eric Darling, Thursday, April 10, at 2:00 PM. This event is free and open to all. The Rockland…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/9/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: www.handsoff2025.com About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/8/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne A little vox pop from the Belfast, Maine Hands Off 2025 event on Saturday FMI: www.handsoff2025.com About the host: Amy Browne…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/7/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Environmental activists in Waldo County have a series of events planned for “Earth Month” this month and as part of that…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/4/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Hands Off! 2025 mobilization across the US and in several Maine locations on Saturday FMI: www.handsoff2025.com About the host: Amy…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/3/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Registration is now open for the 2025 Regional Out in the Open Summit, May 31st-June 1st – and Grace is here with all the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/2/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Dr Charles Rolsky with an update from the Shaw Institute, and where information about the April 5th National Day of Action can be…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 4/1/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine CD1 Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, the top Democrats on the subcommittees that oversee…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/31/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: www.nesterly.com www.ellsworthlibrary.net www.nps www.nps.gov/acad www.maine.gov/sos/ About the host: Amy Browne started out at…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/28/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Wrapping up the week today with a few more comments from the town hall style meeting held in Bangor last Saturday. Congressman Jared…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/27/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Congressman Greg Caser defending public media (and questioning other spending) at the Congressional Subcommittee on Delivering on…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/26/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Constituents speak at a Town Hall style meeting in Bangor on Saturday. Congressman Jared Golden was invited but did not attend, so…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/25/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Constituents speak at a Town Hall style meeting in Bangor on Saturday. Congressman Jared Golden was invited but did not attend, so…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/24/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The mercury-contaminated Mallinckrodt site in Orrington is the subject of a Notice of Violation from the Maine DEP FMI…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/20/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/19/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Science Festival FMI: www.mainesciencefestival.org/ The National Park Service has closed the carriage roads in Acadia National…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/18/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Some of the bills having public hearings today in the state legislature’s joint standing committees – and a work session…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/17/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Wabanaki Alliance is announcing that their new Bill Tracker is now live FMI email: info@wabanakialliance.com Maine’s…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/14/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Good Shepherd Food Bank released a statement Thursday in response to recently announced reductions in federal food assistance that…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/13/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Excerpts from some of the four hours + of testimony the state legislature’s Environment and Natural Resources committee heard…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/12/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne This morning, starting around 10, the state legislature’s Environment and Natural Resources committee will hold a combine…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/11/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Maine legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry will hold a public hearing today at…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/10/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Judd Esty-Kendall of the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine is here with an invitation to “Reweaving the Social…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/7/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: www.jesuplibrary.org www.neighborhoodforest.org/parent-registration girlswhocodebarharbor@gmail.com www.legislature.gov About…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/5/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Wilson Haims of A Climate to Thrive, host of Climate and Community- a short feature that airs at 8:30am every Thursday here on WERU…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/4/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Nancy Galland and David Italiaander- veteran advocates for protecting Sears Island from industrial development- are here with news…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 3/3/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne A look at some of the public hearings that are scheduled for today in the Maine Legislature’s Joint Standing Committees FMI…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/28/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Andy O’Brien, Communications Director with the Maine AFL-CIO, on how Mainers are impacted by federal budget cuts FMI…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/27/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Andy O’Brien, Communications Director with the Maine AFL-CIO, on reports of federal job cuts this week at the Togus VA…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/26/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Diana Merenda and Betsy Armstrong from Maine Voices for Palestinian Peace talk about the award-winning, critically acclaimed…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/25/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Debbie Krysak, Pat Pugh, and Debi Estep of Common Good Kitchen join us to talk about their work, and invite you to learn more at a…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/24/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: www.maine.gov/invasives pingree.house.gov/uploadedfiles/letter_to_secretary_burgum_on_indian_affairs_final.pdf About the host…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/21/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: Amicus brief (PDF): ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/amicus-curiae/mayor-and-city-council-of-baltimore-v-consumer-financial-protecti…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/20/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Firefly joins us to talk about tonight’s event: The Firefly Experience: An Evening for Community A frequency elevating evening…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/19/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Pamela Salokangas, Director of Belfast Parks and Recreation is here to talk about Belfast’s Annual Ice festival (coming up this…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/18/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Sara Trunzo is here with the line up for this month’s Songwriter Rounds at Hey Sailor! in Searsport Thursday night FMI on…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/17/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Sharon Catus, Director of Advancement at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, is here with an invitation to their Winter Break Community…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/14/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI on today’s stories: www.wilsonmuseum.org space4peace.blogspot.com/ pingree.house.gov/ About the host: Amy Browne started…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/13/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI on today’s stories: www.becountercurrent.com 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 2/12/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI on today’s stories: www.maine.gov/ag/ www.heartofellsworth.org/grantprogram2025 www.witherlelibrary.net…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/11/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI on today’s stories: www.maine.gov/ag/ www.heartofellsworth.org/grantprogram2025 www.witherlelibrary.net…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/10/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Jill Howell, Exec Dir of Upstream Watch, on efforts to protect Sears Island permanently – and an invitation to participate in a…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/7/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 2/3/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Cathy Rees, Executive Director of Native Gardens of Blue Hill is here today to let you know about a new “National Green…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/31/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne A group called the Committee for Orland, Penobscot, Surry and Blue Hill, and officials in those towns, are encouraging local…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/30/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Dr Charles Rolsky, Executive Director and Senior Research Scientist at the Shaw Institute in Blue Hill, with an update on their work…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/29/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne -Learn about the ACLU of Maine’s legislative priorities at an online meeting this week. -Opportunities to meet the baby lambs…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/28/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Shawn Keeley from College of the Atlantic on this year’s 24 hour fundraising challenge, February 11th FMI…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/27/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Folks at the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine in Bangor have been holding a series of community meetings over the past…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/24/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Upcoming events About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/23/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Proposed salmon aquaculture development proposal in Belfast is pulled by company. Local citizen groups react. FMI…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/22/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine State Park campground reservations open soon FMI: www.CampWithME.com Maine Dept of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife opens lottery…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/21/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Public hearings in Augusta on the budget (and how you can participate), and the weather in Maine 100 years ago today. About the host…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/20/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Aaron Dority, Ex Dir, Frenchman Bay Conservancy with some good news about land they are protecting and “rewilding”. FMI…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/17/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Upcoming events About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/16/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Upcoming events and Maine news from 100 years ago today About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news &…