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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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3:12

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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4:04

Around Town 10/15/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/10/15

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Mattie Bamman, Emcee of 2nd Annual Haiku Death Match, and Maya Stein, Belfast Poet Laureate and Co-Director of the Belfast Poetry Festival invite you to join them this weekend for the annual poetry festival, starting with the Haiku Death Match on Friday night 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

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5:49

Outside the Box 10/14/25: “Charter of the Forest”

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/14

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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5:37

Around Town 10/14/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/14

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Local No Kings Day rallies coming up on Saturday, and an ACLU webinar to prep for the event 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

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4:46

Around Town 10/13/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/13

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Indigenous Peoples Day with Donna Loring Donna Loring Hasn’t Stopped Championing Wabanaki Rights- Dave Dostie, Downeast Magazine, November 2021 Donna Loring: Leader and Advocate – University of Maine Alumni Association Wabanaki Windows archives Indigenous views of Christopher Columbus, Penn Today, 2020 Celebrating Columbus continues to be controversial, Marshall Terrill, Arizona State University, 2018 About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news

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5:45

Nature Notes: A Maine Naturalist Afield 10/12/25:...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/12

Host/Producer: Glen Mittelhauser In this episode, Glen rows and sails along Mount Desert Island’s south shore, recalling his early days learning plants and birds and the beginnings of his field ecology career. He describes the quiet rhythm of rowing and decades of ecological surveys along the Maine coast. More information about Maine Natural History can be found at mainenaturalhistory.org. About the hosts: Glen Mittelhauser founded Maine Natural History Observatory (MNHO) in 2003 to fill the need

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4:12

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

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/10

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Thomasina DiBiase from Frenchman Bay Conservancy stops by with an announcement about an opportunity to protect 5788 acres in Amherst, near the headwaters of both the Union and Penobscot Rivers. They’ll need help from the community to raise the funds before a deadline in December… 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

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5:01

Around Town 10/9/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/09

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Ann Luther from the League of Women Voters is here today with information about the ballot questions Mainers will be voting on in November Maine Citizen’s Guide to the Referendum Election Democracy Forum archives 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

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3:40

Around Town 10/8/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/08

Host/Producer: Amy Browne U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities national speaking tour, “The Future is Collective: From Crisis to Liberation”, kicks off tonight at the UU Church in Bangor at 6:30pm. Jonathan Falk and Olivia 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

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6:41

Outside the Box 10/7/25: ”Worker Pay”

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/07

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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4:01

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

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/07

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Kayla Gagnon is here this morning to invite listeners to a “Know Your Rights- Interaction with Law Enforcement” workshop at the UU Church in Ellsworth tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, 5-8pm. For more information and to RSVP, email kayla.amy.gagnon(at)gmail.com 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

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4:51

Around Town 10/6/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/06

Host/Producer: Amy Browne We speak with author James B Wells who will be in Maine next week (Bangor, Ellsworth and Lincoln) talking about his latest book, Because: A CIA Coverup & a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew October 8 | Bangor, ME | The Briar Patch BookSpace – 48 Columbia Street, downtown Bangor | Discussion & signing Because | 7:00 pm October 9 | Ellsworth, ME | Ellsworth Public Library | Discussion and signing Because |

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5:21

Nature Notes: A Maine Naturalist Afield 10/5/25:...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/05

Host/Producer: Glen Mittelhauser Leaving Marshall Island after a rainy night at anchor, Glen sails east toward Mason Ledge, a long-time seabird colony. Along the way, he notes loons now commonly seen on saltwater in summer, lines of black guillemots, and flocks of southbound semipalmated sandpipers. More information about Maine Natural History can be found at mainenaturalhistory.org. About the hosts: Glen Mittelhauser founded Maine Natural History Observatory (MNHO) in 2003 to fill the need for an

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4:28

Around Town 10/3/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/03

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Weekend events: SardineFest at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport Fundraiser for Friends of Sears Island with Bookhead Sweettooth at Hey Sailor! Marshall Wharf Brewing Company’s annual Belfast Bay Beer Bash Climate Resiliency Fair in Belfast 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

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28:00

Justice Radio 10/2/25: Logan Perkins

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/02

Host/s: Rob Ruffner 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: Rob’s interview with Logan Perkins, District Defender of the Maine Highlands Region Public Defender’s office which represents people from Penobscot and Piscataquis counties, as they talk about their work, jail

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58:09

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 10/2/2025

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/02

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: A Maine State Police trooper pinned a handcuffed man to the ground and repeatedly punched him in the face during an arrest. The episode raises questions about the agency’s use of force policy and its process for reviewing complaints

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5:08

Around Town 10/2/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/02

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine AFL-CIO issues statement on federal government shutdown Friends of Sears Island‘s upcoming Island Tree walk Bangor Visibility Brigade 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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4:23

Around Town 10/1/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/01

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Patrisha McLean, CEO/Founder of Finding Our Voices and host of Let’s Talk About It on WERU joins us to invite listeners to Finding Our Voices events this month, in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness month If you or someone you know is currently in immediate danger, call 911. The Maine 24/7 confidential helpline is 1-866-834-4357 (Source: www.FindingOurVoices.net) About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer

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4:59

World Ocean Radio 10/1/25: Calculating Ocean Risk

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/10/01

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE “Climate change has been one the greatest failures of risk management in modern history.” So states the Back to Blue Initiative, an Economist and Nippon Foundation project. A recent article entitled “Calculating Ocean Risk” additionally states: “The scientific evidence had been clear for decades, but decision-makers have failed to act in a manner consistent with the scale of the risk.” This week

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59:00

Wabanaki Windows 9/30/25: Breaking the Silence 2

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/09/30

Host: Donna Loring Other credits: Technical assistance for the show was provided by Joel Mann of WERU, and Jessica Lockhart. Music by Ralph Richter, a track called little eagles from his CD Dream Walk. Wabanaki Windows is a monthly show featuring topics of interest from a Wabanaki perspective. This month: Based on a letter from the Wolastoqewi-Mothers, Grandmothers and Aunties. Guest/s: Prof. Darren Ranco, a member of the Penobscot Nation, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Native American

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