Weru 89.9 Fm Blue Hill, Maine Local News And Public Affairs Archives

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Land Conserved by Frenchman Bay Conservancy FMI:www.frenchmanbay.org Upcoming Events Crafty Wednesday at the Witherle Memorial Library in Castine (Holiday lanterns) FMI: www.witherlelibrary.net/ Mi’kmaq Storytelling and Songs with John Dennis, citizen of the Mi’kmaq Nation FMI: www.wilsonmuseum.org/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, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and

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 trust for 23 years, and met a wonderful partner whom Larry has loved for over 40 years. Larry has produced Outside the Box features on WERU since 2007 and continues to look for unique ways of seeing almost any problem or situation. The post Outside the Box 12/10/24: “What’s the Economy for, Revisited” first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Friends of Sears Island’s annual Solstice by the Sea: A Celebration of Light is coming up on 12/21/24 on the island. Ashley Megquier is here with the details. FMI: www.friendsofsearsisland.org And the City of Ellsworth will be working on Surry Road today- we have 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 RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recip

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Adina Salmansohn, host and producer of “Creative Maine” on WERU, joins us to talk about her upcoming show (12/19, 4pm) — and to try to find someone with certain restoration skills to interview for that show. If it’s you, email news@weru.org and put “Creative Maine” in the subject line. Deadline is Friday 12/13/24 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 has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has con

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 and ambiguity, when chronological time is punctuated elliptically, things can quickly turn edgy and controversial, as we search for understanding amid our dialectic. Tune in Monday mornings at 7:30 a.m. for an exciting journey through space and time with a few notable birthdays thrown in for good measure during A Word in Edgewise . . . About the host: RW Estela was raised as a first-generation American in Colorado by a German mother and a Corsican-Basque father who would become a three-war veteran for the US Army, s

Host: Logan Parker Producer: Glen Mittelhauser The transition from summer to autumn ushers in more than just magnificent foliage. Join Logan on a stroll through a Maine landscape in flux. More information is available on our website: https://mainenaturalhistory.org/. About the hosts: Glen Mittelhauser founded  Maine Natural History Observatory (MNHO) in 2003 to fill the need for an organization that specializes in collecting, interpreting, and maintaining datasets for understanding changes in Maine’s plant and wildlife populations.  Glen received his Bachelor’s in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic in 1989 with a focus in the biological sciences and received his Master of Science degree in Zoology (with a focus on ornithology and statistics) from the University of Maine in 2000. Glen was the Managing Editor for Northeastern Naturalist and Southeastern Naturalist for 18 years and has served as external graduate faculty for 3 graduate student committees at the University of Maine.  G

CJ Kenna | Producer + Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 12/8/24: Ghosts Aren’t Toys first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Host/Producer: Sarah Pebworth FMI: swhplibrary.org, Siri Beckman (youtube.com/watch?v=gTZMiZ83eGE), wilsonmuseum.org, fourseasonfarm.com, eliotbarbara.com/read-our-books, graveslibrary.org, bangorpubliclibrary.org About the host: Sarah Pebworth leads the steering committee for Word—a Blue Hill Literary Arts Festival, founded in 2017. She serves on the boards of the Cultural Alliance of Maine, Lawrence Family Fitness Center YMCA, and Colloquy Downeast. Since February 2023 Sarah has written “Shared Seas and Common Grounds,” a column published in the Penobscot Bay Press’s Weekly Packet. She and her wife Julie Jo Fehrle live in Blue Hill. Theme music: Ross Gallagher is a bassist who grew up in East Blue Hill, ME, and currently lives between Bath, ME and Brooklyn, NY, where he works with a wide variety of musical artists. Infinite Blues is a cut from his recently released neon night, an excursion into an ambient/electronic musical world built around rhythmic bass ostina

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 community in Central Maine. The post Earthwise 12/7/24: A Brief History of the Reindeer first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger Music by Casey Neill Conversations from the Pointed Firs is a monthly audio series with Maine-connected authors and artists discussing new books and creative projects that invoke the spirit of Maine, its history, its ecology, its culture, and its contribution to community and quality of life. Airs the first Friday of every month from 4-5pm. Online at pointedfirs.org. Claire Ackroyd, author of Murder in the Maple Woods, her first novel, a detective story set in the sugar camps in the northern forests of Maine, published in cooperation with Maine Authors Publishing, and a finalist in the 2021 Maine Literary Awards. She is a landscape designer, and for many years has been studying the history of production and conducting certifications of organic maple syrup in Maine. About the host: Peter Neill is founder and director of the World Ocean Observatory, a web-based place of exchange for information and educational services about the health of the ocean. In 1972, he founded

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Annual Northeast Harbor Christmas Festival Details and a schedule can be found at www.mtdesertchamber.org/2024-christmas-festival Alihoop Call for Submissions FMI: Email Krista at krista@alphalibra.com or go to www.artivisminmaine.org If a Tree Falls, an original musical FMI and tickets: www.ecologylearningcenter.org 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 has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and th

Host: Kate Cough Guest: Emmett Gartner Production Assistance: Amy Browne 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: In this episode, join Monitor environmental reporter Emmett Gartner as he talks about his recent series on dams in Maine and how they will fare in a changing climate. FMI: themainemonitor.org/divided-on-dams/ The post The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 12/5/24 first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Annual Festival of Lights Parade in Bangor FMI: www.bangorrotary.org Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Winter Programming, CAMPS – Community Artist and Maker Program Series –Holiday Open House FMI: www.haystack-mtn.org Making Victorian-inspired ornaments with the Ellsworth Historical Society, at the Chamberlain House at Ellsworth Falls FMI: www.ellsworthhistory.org/events Nature-Friendly Ornament Making Workshop with the Wilson Museum, in collaboration with the Castine Arts Association, and Castine Arts Association’s fifth annual Holiday Tree Trail FMI: www.wilsonmuseum.org/calendar & www.castinearts.org 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 W

Host/Producer: Rhonda Feiman Co-Producer: Petra Hall Technical Assistance: Joel Mann & Amy Browne Healthy Options: For Well-being & Being Well This month: What is Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and how can it help us be better listeners and engage our feelings of empathy for others?Some practical ways to be able to manage difficult conversations with people who have different viewpoints. How to communicate with others with whom we disagree, even as our own nervous system is under stress or challenge when encountering different view points. How to acknowledge and handle the pressures of social and political challenge in our lives with NVC practice. Guest(s):  Peggy Smith, co-founder of the Maine Non-Violent Communication Network, & certified trainer with the International Center for Non-Violent Communication. A student of Mindfulness since 1991, she was ordained as a teacher by Zen Master & peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, and incorporates Mindfulness practice in the teaching of Non-Violent

Host/Producer: Amy Browne -Belfast Flying Shoes anniversary party/dances this week -Peace Vigil in Bangor FMI: www.belfastflyingshoes.org Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine- email peacectr@gmail.com or call 217-0910 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 has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club