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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 1/15/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Mike Bennett with an invitation to celebrate the life of Joel Raymond this weekend at The Grand or livesteamed via youtube—…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/14/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Sara Trunzo on this month’s Songwriter Rounds at Hey Sailor! in Searsport — coming up this Thursday FMI…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/13/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne LD1- An Act to Increase Storm Preparedness for Maine’s Communities, Homes and Infrastructure The Maine Legislature’s…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/10/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Upcoming events and news FMI: www.friendsofsearsisland.org www.nonprofitmaine.org/events/2025-nonprofit-day…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/9/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Two of the bills the Maine Legislature will be considering this session, L.D. 9 “An Act Regarding Campaign Finance…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/8/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne A quick look at some of the bills the Maine Legislature will be considering this session FMI: www.legislature.maine.gov/ About the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/7/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Teacher of the Year Nominations FMI: www.mainetoy.org/nominate Androscoggin Hydro Dam License Renewal Opposed by “Save…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/6/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Josh Kauppila from the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine in Bangor joins us to talk about a community forum (via zoom))…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/3/25: 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 1/2/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne In the news in Maine, 100 years ago today.. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 1/1/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne WERU Staff members Susan Pierce, Joel Mann, Willie Marquart, Amy Browne and Matt Murphy with a new year’s greeting About the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/31/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Local New Year’s Eve events 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 12/30/24: 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 12/20/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Winter Solstice events and an update on the missing schooner that was in the news in Maine 100 years ago today FMI…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/19/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Acadia National Park Artists in Residence selected for 2025, upcoming events and a missing schooner in the news in Maine, 100 years…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/18/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Chrissy Fowler from Belfast Flying Shoes invites you to a community dance followed by a contradance at the Rockport Opera House…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/17/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Singer-songwriter and host of “Country and Northeastern” (WERU-FM Wednesday mornings at 9) Sara Trunzo talks about the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/16/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Upcoming Events FMI: www.Theatrenouveau.org or email theatrenouveau2023@gmail.com www.bethwrightcancercenter.org or call the Beth C…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/16/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Upcoming Events FMI: www.Theatrenouveau.org or email theatrenouveau2023@gmail.com www.bethwrightcancercenter.org or call the Beth C…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/13/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Upcoming Events FMI: www.ellsworthlibrary.net Bucksport Town Office 207-469-7368 www.winterharbormusicfestival.org About the host…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/12/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Paul Winter joins us to talk about his annual Winter Solstice Celebration with special guest Noel Paul Stookey. This year they will…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/11/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Land Conserved by Frenchman Bay Conservancy FMI:www.frenchmanbay.org Upcoming Events Crafty Wednesday at the Witherle Memorial…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/10/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Friends of Sears Island’s annual Solstice by the Sea: A Celebration of Light is coming up on 12/21/24 on the island. Ashley…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/9/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Adina Salmansohn, host and producer of “Creative Maine” on WERU, joins us to talk about her upcoming show (12/19, 4pm)…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/6/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Annual Northeast Harbor Christmas Festival Details and a schedule can be found at www.mtdesertchamber.org/2024-christmas-festival…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/5/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Annual Festival of Lights Parade in Bangor FMI: www.bangorrotary.org Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Winter Programming, CAMPS…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/4/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne -Belfast Flying Shoes anniversary party/dances this week -Peace Vigil in Bangor FMI: www.belfastflyingshoes.org Peace & Justice…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/3/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne -Acadia National Park changes campground reservations process -Giving Tuesday (Maggie Garfield, Development Director at WERU) FMI…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 12/2/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne We continue our conversation with Jim Merkel about his recently concluded world tour with his latest film, “Saving Waldens…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/29/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Upcoming events – free showing of “Muppets Christmas Carol” at the Alamo in Bucksport tomorrow – Paula Kee…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/28/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Thanksgiving 1924 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 11/27/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Thanksgiving Gathering at the Universalist Unitarian Church on Park Street in Bangor, 12-4pm. FMI: email…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/26/24: 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 11/25/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Attorney Robert Ruffner, Director of the Maine Indigent Defense Center, talks about the upcoming Indigent Defense Symposium they are…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/22/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Josh Kauppila, Program Director at the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, with an invitation to a community conversation next…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/21/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Food AND Medicine’s 22nd annual Solidarity Harvest is underway, with partners across the state helping distribute 1675 food…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/20/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Food AND Medicine’s 22nd annual Solidarity Harvest is underway, with partners across the state helping distribute 1675 food…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/19/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne We’re checking in with Sara Trunzo today for an update on the songwriter rounds at Hey Sailor! in Searsport that she told us…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/18/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Corliss Davis and Dianne Torresen join us to talk about the Belfast Composting Collaborative, why they’ve devoted time to…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/15/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Catherine Ring joins us to talk about the Queen City Improv Troupe event at Brown Hall (at Elm Street Congregational Church) in…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/14/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Cathy Rees, Executive Director of Native Gardens of Blue Hill joins us with information about their “Sustainable Landscaping…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/13/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Jill Howell, Executive Director of the Belfast-based non-profit Upstream Watch, with updates on the Nordic Aquafarms controversy in…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/12/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Local news & 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 11/11/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Local news & 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 11/7/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne LGBTQ+ theatre workshop and auditions for A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Belfast. Out in the Open fellow Carmine Abigail with the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/6/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The annual PICA (Power in Community Alliances) auction is coming up this weekend. Ed Rudnicki with the details FMI…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/5/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Information for voters from the ACLU and League of Women Voters FMI: www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights ACLU hotline: 1-866-OUR-VOTE…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/4/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne MidCoast Villager Assistant Editor Carolyn Zachary’s profiles of the District 2 candidates for Waldo County Commission –…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 11/1/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Election information from Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and Deputy Secretary Julie Flynn, part 1 FMI…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/31/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Chris Buchanan from the Campaign to Protect Sears Island / Wahsumkik announces a new coalition that’s forming to protect Sears…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/30/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Zabet NeuCollins, Project Coordinator at Heart of Ellsworth, joins us to talk about the upcoming Downeast Cider + Food Festival FMI…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/29/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Robert Shetterly, creator of “Americans Who Tell the Truth”, with details about a showing of the entire series at the…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/28/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Tai chi in Camden amphitheater Instructor, Anna Dembska at camdentaiji@gmail.com The Feel Better class at the Belfast Dance Studio…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/25/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Publishers & Writers Alliance Epistolary Poetry Workshop, Saturday at the Jesup Library in Bar Harbor. FMI & to…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/24/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Chrissy Fowler, Executive Director of Belfast Flying Shoes, with details of events over the next few weeks with young musicians…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/23/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne Diana Merenda qualified write-in candidate for Congressional District #2 FMI: email dianacongressdistrict2@gmail.com About the host…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/22/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: The Wilson Museum’s zoom presentation tonight called “Batteries & Beyond: Why Lithium Matters”…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/21/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: Office of the Maine Attorney General (207) 626-8849 www.maine.gov/ag/consumer/complaints/ League of Women Voters of Bangor…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/18/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: mythichearttheatre.com www.tenbuckstheatre.org www.maine.gov/dacf www.lwvme.org About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU…
- Around Town | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Around Town 10/17/24: Local News, Culture and Events
Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Sierra Club, Maine Chapter’s fall Community Conversations webinar series “Rivers, Dams & Climate Change: The…