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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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4:09

Around Town 11/19/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/19

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Beloved Children’s Author’s Family Torches DHS for Using Book Title in Immigration Raids Tom Latchem, Daily Beast, Nov. 17 2025 Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation, Cindy Von Quednow and Chris Boyette, CNN, Nov 16, 2025 The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) announces the launch of the Maine Food Access Map For questions about the map or to request an update to a

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3:37

Around Town 11/18/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/11/18

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Stress Reduction for the Holidays Workshop, Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center (in person or via zoom) Friday, November 22, 2025 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Free and open to the public (registration encouraged) To learn more, register, or request the Zoom link, please call 207-664-0339, email info@bethwrightcancercenter.org, Please place “HOLIDAY” in the subject line of the email. Acadia National Park, Park Loop Road closures A Place at the Table: Holding Grief through the

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3:57

Around Town 11/17/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/11/17

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Opera House Arts is looking for people who would like to take part in a community reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Stonington Opera House next month. Cause IQ Activate Maine has launched a community-powered statewide database connecting people with food resources (and vice versa) 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

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3:28

Around Town 11/14/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/11/14

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Severine Welcome joins us to talk about a new way to connect the downeast food producers with people looking for local food FMI: Eat Downeast 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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3:15

Around Town 11/13/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/11/13

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Indivisible Bangor is looking for volunteers to help with their Saturday protests at Home Depot. Contact Indivisible Bangor for more information and/or to volunteer FMI/background: Home Depot keeps quiet on immigration raids outside its doors (8/19) NPR As ICE Targets Home Depot Stores, Advocates Say Company Is Failing To Protect Day Laborers (10/31) Block Club Chicago (non-profit local news) US: ICE Abuses in Los Angeles Set Stage for Other Cities (11/4) Human Rights Watch

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4:33

Around Town 11/12/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/11/12

Host/Producer: Amy Browne U.S. Geological Survey issues alert for downeast and northern Maine, as they start, this month, to use low-flying planes to conduct an “Earth MRI”. 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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5:56

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

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2025/11/11

Host/Producer: Amy Browne U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner reacts to news Monday afternoon that an agreement had been reached to reopen the federal government, by a small number of Democrats who joined the Republicans. 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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4:36

Around Town 11/10/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/11/10

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Equal Justice update on the SNAP crisis (Part 2 of 2. Part 1 aired on 11/7/25) 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

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4:56

Around Town 11/7/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/11/07

Host/Producer: Amy Browne “Standing in Solidarity: Educating for Justice in Palestine,” forums in Orono (Friday, November 7, 6:30-8 PM, Wilson Center) and Bangor (Saturday, November 8, 3-4:30 PM Public Library), sponsored by the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine and UMaine Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Maine Equal Justice update on the SNAP crisis (more on Monday’s AT) Ellsworth Clean-upE-Waste Disposal Day About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a

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5:00

Around Town 11/6/25: Local News, Culture and Events

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2025/11/06

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Senator Angus King, and at least 70 other members of Congress have issued a letter in opposition the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) recently announced interim final rule ending the automatic extension of employment authorization documents (EAD) for individuals who have filed timely renewal applications. You may submit comments on the entirety of this IFR, identified by DHS Docket No. USCIS-2025-0271, through the

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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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3:58

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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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