WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Tonight in Searsport, Friends of Sears Island and Carver Memorial Library will be hosting a presentation by Julia Hiltonsmith titled “Historical Memory of Land Use Proposals at Sears Island”. This program will be held at Carver Memorial Library at 12 Union Street in Searsport, Maine, at 6:30 tonight. It’s free and open to the public. Advance registration is not requ...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Hancock County Soil & Water Conservation District is partnering with the Maine Natural Areas Program, UMaine Cooperative Extension and Native Gardens of Blue Hill to cohost the 2026 Invasive Plant Educational Workshop on Tuesday, May 26, 2026 at Emerson Hall in Castine. Mary Thibodeau, District Manager, Hancock County Soil & Water Conservation District joins us...

Host: Jazz Bradley at NextStep Domestic Violence Project. NextStep 24/7 Helpline: 1(800) 315-5579 Theme Music for the show donated by local musicians Megan Light and Nathan Spears. Relationship Rewind: Rewinding relationships in popular media and breaking down behaviors based in power, control, and abuse. This episode: 1. Discussing unhealthy themes in the tv series, “Foster’s Hom...

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 coop...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Today’s Fish News was hosted by Bea Alsop-Cheeney in Milbridge with assistance from youth from the Independent Downeast Association for Homeschoolers. It was produced by Kate Blofson from WRUJ-LP in Richmond VT and made possible with support from Greenhorns and Eat Downeast Upcoming fish-tivals and fish-tivities: Fifth Annual Pennamaquan Alewife Festival — Free, fam...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Berit Becker, Communications and Development Director at the Ellsworth Public Library, is here today to let listeners know about the final event in their Indie Lens series, coming up this weekend: Community Screening of The Grocery List Show Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 Interna...

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 — t...

Host/Producer: Glen Mittelhauser In this episode, Glen concludes his conversation with Rich MacDonald of the Natural History Center during a winter walk in Acadia National Park, reflecting on forest structure, succession, and the complexity of ecological systems. The discussion broadens to observations of ravens and Bald Eagles. More information about Maine Natural History can be found at mainenat...

CJ Kenna | Producer + Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 5/17/26: Hubris first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives .

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: schoodicartsforall.org waterfallarts.org mainewriters.org courthousegallery.com penobscotmarinemuseum.org jesuplibrary.org About the host: Sarah Pebworth leads the steering committee for Word—a Blue Hill Literary Arts Fe...

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 r...

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 taxes and democracy. Everyone complains about paying taxes. But what if we need taxation if we want the benefits of democracy? If democracy costs money, who s...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne JD Vance comes to Bangor, plans to save Maine taxpayers from “fraudsters” wasting our money. We talk w/ protesters outside the venue. Trump’s Other ‘Vanity Projects’ Will Cost $162.5 Million—In Addition To $1.4 Billion Ballroom Possibly Funded By Taxpayers, Sara Dorn, Forbes Staff. May 13, 2026, Forbes Let’s Get to the Bottom of Trump’s Expensive, No-Bid Contr...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Fundraiser for Waldo County Bounty at Hey Sailor! this weekend, featuring the Sugar Snaps VP JD Vance’s stop in Bangor today, scheduled to be at 188 Maine Avenue on the BIA property, with doors opening at 9:30, the program starting at 11:30 and Vance scheduled to speak at 12:30. Registration Protest/rally info Turning Point USA: A Case Study of the Hard Right in 202...

Producer/Hosts: Ron Beard and Liz Graves College of the Atlantic provides help with production. Engineering by Joel Mann of WERU Community Radio. 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: How have various historic preservation projects energized community...

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE How do we value nature? How do we price it and define its asset value? This week we’re looking to a recent report issued by the UK Office of National Statistics to provide illustration of four ocean functions that underlie our capacity to sustain life on Earth. The ocean’s contribution to the past, present, and futur...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne After the Secretary of State’s office found the “protect girl’s sports” petitions to be valid in March, a challenge was filed in Maine Superior Court. The court ordered further fact-finding, to be followed by a new determination of validity by the Sec of State by May 26th At a hearing in Augusta yesterday, there was testimony regarding the concerns...

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 coop...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne A coalition of churches and faith leaders have organized a “Love Is the Point” event to counter a Turning Point USA event Friday in Portland. Both events will be held Friday evening. Turning Point at the Portland Expo, Love Is the Point at the historic UU church on Congress Street. Turning Point USA: A Case Study of the Hard Right in 2024, Southern Poverty Law...

Hosts: Joana and David Music: Fiesta en Guadalajara – Mariachi de la Calle by JuliusH What does it mean to be a Latino Mainer? Joana and Del explore Latinidad in Maine with Maine Native Elspeth Savani, the lead singer of Los Nietos del Son which is the second of two Latiné musical groups in Maine. She is also bringing the Seattle Latin Jazz scene to Maine with her Seattle Savani Latin Jazz Q...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Today is the first day of absentee balloting for the June 9th primary – and other information from the Maine Secretary of State’s office Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License The post Around Town 5/11/26: Local News, Culture and Events first appeared on...

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 — t...

Host/Producer: Glen Mittelhauser In this episode, Glen continues his conversation with Rich MacDonald of the Natural History Center during a winter walk in Acadia National Park, exploring the ethical tensions when observing wildlife in distress. From rescuing stranded amphibian eggs to aiding an injured Peregrine Falcon, Rich reflects on the balance between natural processes and human intervention...

Andree Bella | Writer/Producer The post Esoterica 5/10/26: Tech Pause first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives .

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: operahousearts.org wilsonmuseum.org bhpl.net LCAtickets.org 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 th...