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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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Healthy Options 11/5/25: AGEISM: Disrupting &...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/05

Host/Producer: Rhonda Feiman Co-Producer: Petra Hall Technical Assistance: Joel Mann Healthy Options: For Well-being & Being Well This month: -We ALL will get older; how we deal with this reality is important for each of us to face in a positive, life-affirming manner -Age-positivity & how to reframe aging -Why & how do positive views of aging produce healthier outcomes? -The difference between a “health span” and a “life span” -Pervasive age-related stereotypes

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5:28

Around Town 11/5/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/11/05

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Artivisim in Maine’s Arts in Action summit, What’s Art Got To Do With Freedom & Justice? coming up this weekend in Ellsworth Indivisible’s Solidarity in Action speaker series continues (virtually) tonight, 7 – 8pm, with Solidarity in Action: Protect Immigrant Rights, Build Collective Power with National Director of Immigrant Community Strategies for the ACLU Maribel Hernández Rivera. FMI and to register for the link, click here Friends of Sears Island

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6:02

Outside the Box 11/4/25: “A Rights Economy”

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/04

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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3:58

Around Town 11/4/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/04

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine statewide ballot questions with Ann Luther, League of Women Voters – and voting information from the Secretary of State’s office 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,

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3:46

Around Town 11/3/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/11/03

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine student mock election results, voting information 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 Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the

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4:42

Around Town 10/31/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/31

Host/Producer: Amy Browne There will be a protest outside the Bangor Home Depot on Stillwater Avenue on Saturday from noon to 2pm,”in honor of all the workers who have been kidnapped by ICE on Home Depot properties”, organized by Disappeared In America, a project hosted by Public Citizen, National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON), The Workers Circle and Detention Watch Network. The Annual PICA Auction is t= tomorrow at the UU Church on Park Street in Bangor, starting at 3pm (For

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5:29

Around Town 10/30/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/10/30

Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: Today’s guest, Kristi Williamson on facebook or Kristi Ann Williamson on Instragram, email ladymoon.selene(at)gmail.com Mythic Heart Theatre The Wellness Sanctuary in Blue Hill Live From Love Center in Brehem 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 &

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3:39

Around Town 10/29/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/29

Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Brunswick-based nonprofit Full Plates Full Potential is hosting a virtual town hall on SNAP in Maine, tomorrow afternoon at 4 on SNAP in Maine. Register to get the zoom link Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry in Ellsworth is partnering with The Food Trust, Ellsworth Adult Ed, Healthy Acadia and Good Shepard Food Bank to continue offering “Cooking Matters” classes. There is currently a waiting listing but Loaves and Fishes encourages interested Hancock County

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6:15

Outside the Box 10/28/25: “Future Values”

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/28

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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5:13

Around Town 10/28/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/10/28

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Sara Trunzo from the Maine Songwriters Association is here to let singer-song writer fans know about the 15th Annual Maine Songwriters Association, Songwriting Contest Finals coming up next Sunday, 11/2 at Cadenza in Freeport. (Sara also hosts Country and Northeastern here on WERU, Wednesday mornings from 9-10) The ACLU is hosting a virtual national town hall on Thursday. They say “On October 30, join ACLU and leading voices from civil society, media, and law for an

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3:40

Around Town 10/27/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/27

Host/Producer: Amy Browne A community coalition of groups including Presente! Maine and the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition have launched a Maine ICE Watch hotline to protect immigrant families, verify immigration enforcement activity, and connect families to resources. Maine ICE Watch Resource Hub & Hotline: (207) 544-9989 Greenfield Penobscot Estuary Remediation Trust LLC (Trustee of the Penobscot Estuary Mercury Remediation Trust) invite you to join them on Wednesday (Oct 29th) at the Alamo

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4:58

Around Town 10/24/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/24

Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) this week issued a second Notice of Violation to Mallinckrodt US LLC/Medtronic related to the lack of meaningful progress remediating the former chloralkali manufacturing facility located along the Penobscot River in Orrington Congresswoman Chellie Pingree’s letter to Trump in response to the demolition of the East Wing of the White House this week. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news

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4:52

Around Town 10/23/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/10/23

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Grace Johnston-Fennell from Out in the Open is here today with an invitation to the upcoming free public screening of the documentary Heightened Scrutiny, followed by a discussion, next Thursday, October 30th, 6 p.m. at the Alamo Theatre in Bucksport 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,

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5:30

Around Town 10/22/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/10/22

Host/Producer: Amy Browne State Representative Sean Faircloth speaking at the No Kings rally in Bangor on Saturday, October 18th, 2025 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 Maine: The

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5:36

Outside the Box 10/21/25: “Distant Future”

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/21

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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6:00

Around Town 10/21/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/21

Host/Producer: Amy Browne State Representative Amy Roeder speaking at the No Kings rally in Bangor on Saturday, October 18th, 2025 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 Maine: The Way

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5:34

Around Town 10/20/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/20

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Troy Jackson, 5th generation logger, former State Senate President and current gubernatorial candidate, speaking at the No Kings! rally at Broadway Park in Bangor on Saturday, October 18th, 2025 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

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57:21

Democracy Forum 10/17/25: What’s On Your Ballot?

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/17

Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine Production Assistance: Linda Washburn, Joel Mann Democracy Forum: Participatory Democracy, encouraging citizens to take an active role in government and politics. This month: We’ll talk about the two ballot questions that appear on the November 4 state ballot in Maine. How does the citizen initiative process work in Maine. What are the two ballot questions this year? What the new laws would do, if passed? What are the proponents saying; what

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4:41

Around Town 10/17/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/10/17

Host/Producer: Amy Browne No Kings Day rallies tomorrow. Dave Cox from Indivisible Bangor is here with details of the No Kings Day rally and march there. Rally locations, details and more info: Indivisible Bangor No Kings! Activate Maine calendar 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

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3:12

Around Town 10/16/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/16

Host/Producer: Amy Browne The League of Women Voters is looking for more Election Observation volunteers, and offering two training sessions this month via zoom. The first session is tonight. Register to get the zoom link here There will be a sign making party for No Kings Day tomorrow (Friday) at the Food AND Medicine building at 20 Ivers Street in Brewer from 6-8 pm Nazi graffiti painted on Bangor walking path, Annie Rupertus, Bangor Daily News, 10/14/25 About the host: Amy Browne started out at

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