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WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives

Community Radio WERU FM 89.9 Blue Hill and 102.9 Bangor, Maine

Audio archives of spoken word programming on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine and 102.9 Bangor, Maine (weru.org)

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4:48

A Word in Edgewise 8/18/25: Wildlife Displacement,...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/18

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I’m RW Estela: Since 1991, I’ve been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU’s longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifestations, international and domestic, cosmopolitan and rural, often revealing, as the French say, the more things change, the more they stay the same — though not always! Sometimes in addressing issues affecting our day-to-day lives, in this age of vagary

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5:00

What’s the Word on Maine Street? 8/16/25

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/16

What’s the Word on Maine Street?, hosted by Sarah Pebworth, is a weekly short feature Saturdays at 9:30am looking at local literary and visual arts events and offerings! FMI: weru.org wilsonmuseum.org georgestevensacademy.org jonathanfisherhouse.org barharborhistorical.org earsay.com bhpl.net twofeetbrewing.com mainebookfestival.com About the host: Sarah Pebworth leads the steering committee for Word—a Blue Hill Literary Arts Festival, founded in 2017 and held each October. She serves on the

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5:09

Earthwise 8/16/25: The Peach

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/16

Producer/Host: Anu Dudley About the host: Rev. Dr. Anu Dudley is an ordained Pagan minister and a retired history professor. She continues to teach classes, including the three-year ordination curriculum at the Temple of the Feminine Divine, and others such as History of the Goddess, Paganism 101, Ethical Magic, and Introduction to the Runes. Currently she is writing a book about how to cast the runes using their original Goddess meanings. She lives in the woods off-grid in a small homesteading

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3:35

Around Town 8/15/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/15

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Jae Echeverria with an update on loss of services for people who are currently without housing, and upcoming “Mourn the Dead” and “Fight Like Hell for the Living” events in Bangor FMI: Needlepoint Sanctuary About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s

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28:00

Justice Radio 8/14/25: Will Burdick, Part II

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/14

Host/s: Liv and Swathi Production Coordinator: Daria Cullen Other credits: TECHNICAL SUPPORT – Aaron Pyle and Sarah Johnson | MUSIC – Samuel James Justice Radio is a WMPG production. Justice Radio: Tackling the hard questions about our criminal legal system in Maine. This week: Part 2 of Liv and Swathi’s interview with Will Burdick, social worker and substance use counselor at Westbrook High School, as they continue the conversation about the impact of teams, movement, and mindfulness. About

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29:00

Common Ground Radio 8/14/25: Weaving Community with...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/14

Host: Holli Cederholm Editor: Clare Boland Common Ground Radio is an hour-long discussion of local food and organic agriculture with people here in the state of Maine and beyond. This month: On this episode of Common Ground Radio, we’re talking about the EarthLoom. Originated by weaver Susan Barrett Merrill, the EarthLoom is a way for many hands to weave together to build community. One EarthLoom is located in Unity, Maine, at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center, which is the home of the annual

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3:35

Around Town 8/14/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/14

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Daniella Rodriguez, Education & Outreach Manager at the Shaw Institute in Blue Hill invites the community to check out their new collaboration with the World Ocean Observatory – a virtual sea exploration experience! About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s

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4:48

Around Town 8/13/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/13

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Part 2 of our recent conversation with Andy O’Brien FMI re Black Cat Book Fair, email blackcatbookfair@riseup.net About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and

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7:26

Outside the Box 8/12/25: “Living Wage”

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/12

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger About the host: Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land

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3:13

Around Town 8/12/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/12

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Grace Johnston-Fennell from Out in the Open is here with an invitation for LGBTQ+ folks to join them at an “Arrt!”(Artist Rapid Response Team) event on Saturday, 8/16, 12-4pm in Unity. For more information and to register: email info@weareoutintheopen.org or call 207-808-0623 About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team

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5:56

Around Town 8/11/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/11

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Andy O’Brien, Maine AFL-CIO, on the Trump administration’s termination of the collective bargaining agreement between the Veteran’s Administration and the council that represents many of the staff at the VA — and how that’s impacting workers at Togus. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of

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5:12

A Word in Edgewise 8/11/25: A Question of Focus & the...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/11

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I’m RW Estela: Since 1991, I’ve been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU’s longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifestations, international and domestic, cosmopolitan and rural, often revealing, as the French say, the more things change, the more they stay the same — though not always! Sometimes in addressing issues affecting our day-to-day lives, in this age of vagary

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6:00

Nature Notes: A Maine Naturalist Afield 8/10/25:...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/10

Host: Pepin Mittelhauser Producer: Glen Mittelhauser This episode tells the story of one biologist’s journey into Cliff Swallow conservation, from rescuing fallen nestlings to developing management techniques that help colonies rebound in the face of habitat loss and invasive species. This essay, written by Mara Silver and read by Pepin Mittelhauser, was originally published in The Observer, an online natural history journal published by Maine Natural History Observatory. More information about

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4:42

Esoterica 8/10/25: What’s Your Story?

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/10

CJ Kenna | Producer + Writer/ReaderThe post Esoterica 8/10/25: What’s Your Story? first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

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5:00

What’s the Word on Maine Street? 8/9/25

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/09

What’s the Word on Maine Street?, hosted by Sarah Pebworth, is a weekly short feature Saturdays at 9:30am looking at local literary and visual arts events and offerings! FMI: weru.org bhpl.net haystack-mtn.org deerislelibrary.org stonington.lib.me.us wendellgilleymuseum.org georgestevensacademy.org About the host: Sarah Pebworth leads the steering committee for Word—a Blue Hill Literary Arts Festival, founded in 2017 and held each October. She serves on the boards of the Cultural Alliance of

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4:07

The Cosmic Curator 8/9/25

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/09

About the Host: Tom Yaroschuk is a Vedic Astrologer. His intention is to help people understand their karma and the issues they may confront to cultivate more fulfilling lives. Tom is writing a memoir of the spiritual lessons derived from his work in a Homeless Day Center in between a career as an award winning television and documentary producer. The post The Cosmic Curator 8/9/25 first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

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5:14

Earthwise 8/9/25: Coyote

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/08

Producer/Host: Anu Dudley About the host: Rev. Dr. Anu Dudley is an ordained Pagan minister and a retired history professor. She continues to teach classes, including the three-year ordination curriculum at the Temple of the Feminine Divine, and others such as History of the Goddess, Paganism 101, Ethical Magic, and Introduction to the Runes. Currently she is writing a book about how to cast the runes using their original Goddess meanings. She lives in the woods off-grid in a small homesteading

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28:00

Justice Radio 8/7/25: Right to Redemption, Part I

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/07

Host/s: Catherine Besteman Production Coordinator: Daria Cullen Other credits: TECHNICAL SUPPORT – Aaron Pyle and Sarah Johnson | MUSIC – Samuel James Justice Radio is a WMPG production. Justice Radio: Tackling the hard questions about our criminal legal system in Maine. This week: Part 1 of Catherine’s 3-part interview with Kempis “Ghani” Songster, Transformative Healing & Restorative Justice Manager for the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (CFSY), as they talk about how to

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58:00

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 8/7/2025

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/07

Host: Kate Cough, Editor at The Maine Monitor. The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. This month: Sawyer Loftus, an investigative reporter with Maine Focus, the investigative team at the Bangor Daily News and partner of The Maine Monitor, walks us through a story he worked on with ProPublica about a wave of foreclosures on Maine

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4:05

Around Town 8/7/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/08/07

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Courtney Hayes and John Jurcheck, cofounders of the Belfast-based counter/current:collective are here to invite you to their production of Lungs, a play by Duncan MacMillan – opening this week at a secret location! FMI & tickets or call Courtney at (720) 496-3297 About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices

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