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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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3:10

Around Town 7/10/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/10

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Wilson Haims is here with an invitation to Pizza in the Park Thursday, July 17th, with A Climate to Thrive. The 1st Annual TOSS For Loss Tournament to Benefit Camp Jinka Saturday, July 12th, 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM Front Street Public Parking Lot UPDATE: THE EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER Registration 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

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58:44

Talk of the Towns 7/9/25: A River Story: Cherryfield...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/09

Producer/Hosts: Ron Beard and Liz Graves Production support from Joel Mann and from College of the Atlantic Theme music for Talk of the Towns Theme is a medley from Coronach, on a Balnain House Highland Music recording. Talk of the Towns: Local Community concerns and opportunities This month: What is Cherryfield’s historical and current relationship to the Narraguagus River? What was the 1961 Corps of Army Engineers Ice Dam and how did reduce flooding and reduce fish passage? What led to a

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5:03

World Ocean Radio 7/9/25: Why War?

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/09

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE Why is there so much war? So much strife in the Middle East: what are we fighting for? This week Peter Neill, founder of W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, argues that it’s all about the water. It’s always been about the water: rivers, access to the sea…water is the source of life–and of conflict. Water, necessary to sustain our cities, our agriculture, our selves: we all need it in equal measure each day to endure

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4:55

Around Town 7/9/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/09

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Paula Kee of Wednesdays on Main in Bucksport returns to AT to let us know about some events that have been added to their summer 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 & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices,

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58:26

Maine Currents 7/8/25: “In the Shadow of the Eagle”...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/08

Producer/Host: Amy Browne A new exhibition at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor is named for Donna Loring’s 2008 book, “In the Shadow of the Eagle: A Tribal Representative in Maine”, and curated by Donna (who also hosts Wabanaki Windows here on WERU) and her regular contributor Professor Darren Ranco, among others. A group of folks involved with the exhibition sat down recently to talk about what went into putting it together, the connections with Donna’s book, and how

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6:53

Outside the Box 7/8/25: “Fact-Based”

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/08

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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4:05

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

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/08

Host/Producer: Amy Browne H.O.M.E. in Orland is having an Empty Bowl supper on Thursday, to raise funds for their services. Jackie Perkins and Rosa Moore are here with the details. 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

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4:17

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

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/07

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Betsy Richard, Executive Director at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, with an invitation to the annual Dawnland Festival of Arts & Ideas, which “celebrate(s) the Native creative economy on Wabanaki homelands while lifting up Indigenous thought leadership vital to the conversation on a healthy planet and society for us all” — coming up next weekend, July 12th and 13th on the College of the Atlantic campus. Registration here About the host: Amy Browne

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8:58

A Word in Edgewise 7/7/25: A Barn Swallow, Margaret...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/07

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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5:22

Nature Notes: A Maine Naturalist Afield 7/6/25:...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/06

Host: Pepin Mittelhauser Producer: Glen Mittelhauser This episode reflects on the beauty of the summer solstice, celebrating the lush abundance of early summer while acknowledging the quiet turning point toward shorter days and the rhythm of the seasons. This essay, written by Lewis Holmes 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 Maine Natural History can be found

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5:00

What’s the Word on Maine Street? 7/5/25

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/05

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: wordfestival.org goodlife.org nehlibrary.org artwavesmdi.org bhpl.net courthousegallery.com bucklibrary.org mainegalleryguide.com islandportpress.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 boards of

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5:06

Earthwise 7/5/25: The Eagle

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/05

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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4:58

Around Town 7/4/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/04

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Independence Day 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 WERU News Report for several years. She

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28:00

Justice Radio 7/3/25: Frayla Tarpinian, Part I

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/03

Host/s: Rob Ruffner (Maine Indigent Defense Center) 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 Rob’s 2-part interview with Frayla Tarpinian from the Capital Region Public Defenders Office, as they talk about the misinformation surrounding Maine’s indigent defense crisis

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58:11

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 7/3/2025

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/03

Host: Stephanie McFeeters, Deputy 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: Josh Keefe takes listeners behind the scenes of his recent reporting on Maine’s child welfare system, including the story of one Maine woman’s fight to get her son back after an incident in a Presque Isle parking

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5:38

Climate & Community 7/3/25: Maine Climate Action Now...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/03

Host: Wilson Haims Description: This week, Climate and Community hosts Ezra Sassaman, the chair of the Bar Harbor Climate Emergency Task Force and Advocacy Coordinator for Maine Climate Action Now (MCAN). This segment highlights MCAN’S history, the strengths of the coalition, and why a justice-based approach to climate action matters. About the Host: Wilson Haims is from Portland, Maine and earned her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from Wellesley College in 2023. Upon graduating, Wilson

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4:34

Around Town 7/3/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/03

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Kai and Ara Bravesnow invite you to join the Midcoast Mineral Collectors Club, and let you know about the upcoming MidCoast Gem and Mineral Fair The club meets on the first Sunday of each month at 2pm (no meeting in August) at Thorndike Town Hall The MidCoast Gem and Mineral Fair is August 1st-3rd at the Bayview Point Event Center in Belfast. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing

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5:11

World Ocean Radio 7/2/25: Canals and the Circulation...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/02

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE This week we’re discussing the circulation of water worldwide, and the importance of our waterways–canals in particular–as the great highways and distribution centers of our busy lives, now storing and transferring water and energy, and revitalized for recreational use and enjoyment of natural spaces. WORLD OCEAN RADIO 5-minute weekly insights dive into ocean science, advocacy and education hosted by Peter

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4:39

Around Town 7/2/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/02

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Duncan Newcomer is here with an invitation to “Enjoy a Night in America”, his book launch for Quiet Fire: The Spiritual Life of Abraham Lincoln at the Alamo Theatre in Bucksport, 6-8pm, Thursday, July 3rd 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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5:10

Outside the Box 7/1/25: “Censored”

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/07/01

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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