WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives

Host: Wilson Haims Description: Climate and Community meets with Sarah White, a resident of Tremont to discuss how she became involved in climate leadership in her town. Sarah shares her background and insight on how others can take the leap into climate action in their communities. About the Host: Wilson Haims is from Portland, Maine and earned her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Juneteenth Commemoration in Ellsworth today, and one final clip from the No Kings Day event in Bangor last Saturday 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 &...

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE This week on World Ocean Radio we are discussing the Ocean Literacy movement and the need for more ocean science and fresh water understanding in the classroom. Ocean Literacy is comprised of seven basic principles, and host Peter Neill provides further perspective to include the global fresh water cycle by which to expand the principles...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne More clips from the No Kings Day events in Bangor and Ellsworth last Saturday (Recorded by Amy Browne and Matt Murphy) FMI: www.nokings.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 h...

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 behaviors in the film After Everything. 2. Discussing h...

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 Reverend Mark Worth speaking at the No Kings Day event in Ellsworth on Saturday (recorded by Matt Murphy) FMI: www.nokings.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’...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Pam Proulx Curry, Executive Director of the Maine Multicultural Center, speaking at the No Kings Day rally on the Bangor waterfront, Saturday, 6/14/25. FMI: Maine Multicultural Center Indivisible Bangor 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. Sh...

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 Glen talks with Megan where she continues her discussion of teaching natural history. 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 organization that specializes in collecting, interpreting, and maintaining data...

CJ Kenna | Producer + Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 6/15/25: Reality Is Illusion 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 phumchurch.com haleyartgallery.com deerislelibrary.org peninsulapride.me bhpl.net swhplibrary.org wendellgilleymuseum.org About the host: Sarah Pebworth leads the steering committee for Word—a Blue...

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/Producer: Amy Browne Melissa Berky from Indivisible Bangor joins us with details about the No Kings Day rally and march in Bangor tomorrow from 12-3pm, rain or shine. The rally will be at the waterfront near Railroad and Front Streets. A 1-mile march (with shorter alternate routes) will leave from, and return to the park, where the march will be followed by music. FMI: No Kings List of No Kin...

Host: Timothy Boston Editor: Clare Boland Common Ground Radio is an hour-long discussion of local food and organic agriculture with people here in the state of Maine and beyond. This month: In this episode of Common Ground Radio, host Timothy Boston explores the enduring and evolving practice of homesteading in Maine — a lifestyle grounded in self-reliance, land stewardship, and intentional living...

Host: Wilson Haims Description: Climate and Community continues the conversation with Josh Caldwell, the Climate and Clean Energy Advocate and Outreach Manager for the Natural Resources Council of Maine. In this segment Josh describes Maine’s clean energy goals and some of the ways Mainers might expect their lives to change as we transition to 100% clean energy. The conversation concludes with two...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Dr. Charles Rolsky, Executive Director & Senior Research Scientist at the Shaw Institute in Blue Hill, joins us with updates on a new research project on PFAS and lobsters, and an update on their new touch tank 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 De...

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE Apprenticing has long been thought of as a term to describe someone working beside a master craftsperson to learn a trade and to refine a professional skill: whether it be pottery or electrical, cabinetry or plumbing. As an educational model it has long been mostly lost or forgotten, except in a place in midcoast Maine: The Apprenticesho...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Public hearing for “red flag” bill, LD 1378 “An Act to Protect Maine Communities by Enacting the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act” Scheduled to start at 3pm this afternoon in the Judiciary Committee room at the State House. Live stream of the hearing can be accessed here Two new DSF preserves acquired this spring are open to the public for explora...

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 Berit Becker from the Ellsworth Public Library and Hannah Semler from FarmDrop are here to talk about “Hey Ellsworth, How Do We Want to Eat?” – an event focusing on “engag(ing) in participatory and collective action around the future of our food sources”, with a panel discussion (and possibly a pizza party if enough people sign up) FMI and to...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Pride Festivities & College of the Atlantic’s Summer Institute 2025 FMI: Heart of Ellsworth OUT Maine Portland’s first Pride Parade 1987, Portland Public Library Digital Commons Bangor Pride College of the Atlantic Summer Institute 2025 About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-...

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...

CJ Kenna | Producer + Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 6/8/25: What Dreams May Come 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: bucklibrary.org jesuplibrary.org mainearts.maine.gov/pages/programs/arts-in-the-capitol bhpl.net About the host: Sarah Pebworth leads the steering committee for Word—a Blue Hill Literary Arts Festival, founded in 2017 an...