WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives

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...

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa Music: Jackie Lee McLean Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse Topics: Katherine talks about how her ex tried to cut her head off with a knife, got an obscenely low prison sentence, and was released to strangle another girlfriend. Guests: Katherine Erbes About the host: Patrisha McLean is the fo...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Frenchman Bay Conservancy has some good news to share! Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition’s Immigrant Resource Hub and Hotline Information is available in several languages. Hotline: 207-544-9989 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 j...

Host/s: Catherine Besteman Editor: 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: Catherine interviews the cast of the Freedom & Captivity performance. FMI: www.freedom-captivity.org/ About the hosts: The Justice Radio team includes: Catherine Besteman is an abolitionist educa...

Host: Wilson Haims This week: Climate and Community speaks with Isi Munoz, a graduate of the College of the Atlantic and Just Me for Just Us rural youth organizer. In this segment, Isi shares what inspired her to pursue facilitating community-driven climate resilience and introduces us to the program she created called Designing the Future. About the Host: Wilson Haims is from Portland, Maine and...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne The state legislature’s Energy, Utilities and Technology committee held a work session this week for LD 343. The original title of the bill (and the title still posted on the legislature’s website as of Wednesday afternoon, was “An Act to Direct the Public Utilities Commission to Seek Informational Bids Regarding Small Modular Nuclear Reactors in the Sta...

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE In September, Morocco became the 60th country to ratify the UN High Seas Treaty, designed to protect marine biodiversity and establishing new high seas marine protected areas: a precedent and context for a giant step forward for ocean sustainability. This week on World Ocean Radio: part one of a four-part series...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Witherle Memorial Library‘s Foreign Affairs Discussion Group meets tonight from 5 to 6 pm over Zoom. The topic will be the Administration’s National Security Strategy dated November 2025 and released on December 4. Click here to link to more information and to register. Hollywood Factotum talk with author Celeste Donohue, Thursday evening, 6:30-7:30pm at the Jesup M...

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 Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Maine Congressional District 1, and Graham Platner, candidate for the Democrat’s nomination for Senate, hoping to unseat Senator Susan Collins in the next election, issued statements over the weekend in response to the situation in Venezuela. Indivisible Bangor’s weekly “No Kings” rallies at the Federal Building in Ba...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Applications open tomorrow / Tuesday for Haystack Mountain School of Crafts upcoming 75th season. “Supporting Older Mainers: A Legislative Conversation” will be held at the Durgin Center in Brewer on Saturday, January 17th from 11-1. Space is limited. Registration is required, and closes on January 9th For more details or to register, click on the link (above)...

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: Logan Parker Producer: Glen Mittelhauser In this episode, Logan explores the plant communities of Maine’s pitch pine–scrub oak barrens, from fire-adapted pines and dense thickets of scrub oak to rare wildflowers, grasses, and sandplain specialists. He highlights the insects and butterflies that depend on these habitats, including several rare species, and the management efforts that help mai...

CJ Kenna | Producer + Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 1/4/26: 12 Days of Christmas 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: toadhalleditions.ink schoodicartsforall.org deerislelibrary.org surrygatherings.org nehlibrary.org lilykingbooks.com mdihistory.org reversingfalls.org About the host: Sarah Pebworth leads the steering committee for Word—...

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: Peter Neill Producer: Spencer Albee Music by Casey Neill (Mock Turtle Music) 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-...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne LD 287- “An Act to Require and Encourage Safe and Interconnected Transportation Construction Projects” will have a public hearing at 10:30 Tuesday morning in the Maine Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee On Housing and Economic Development On Wednesday the Criminal Justice and Public Safety committee will hold a round of public hearings starting at 1p...

Host: Stephanie McFeeters, Deputy 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: We discuss Monitor Local, a new reporting initiative from the The Maine Monitor focused on what’s happening in...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne The regular schedule of public hearings and work session for proposed legislation resumes in Augusta next Tuesday. Here’s what the Joint Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology will be tackling first — and some ways you can listen in or participate About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, c...

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE In celebration of the New Year, here is a special reading of “At The Fishhouses” by poet Elizabeth Bishop. It offers a distillation of Bishop’s seaside meditations and an evocation of the clarity of meaning contained in personal encounters with the ocean. WORLD OCEAN RADIO 5-minute weekly insights dive into oc...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Kids’ Noon Year’s Eve Party today, 11:00AM – 12:00PM at the Ellsworth Public Library Family friendly New Year’s Eve celebration in Blue Hill at the Shaw Institute, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm today. Space is limited, so registration is required The Carver Memorial Library in Searsport family/kids mid-day New Year Eve event, today at 11 with “co...

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 College of the Atlantic’s new scholarship program – Pine Tree Scholars Maine Academy of Modern Music’s summer camps in Portland and Bangor in summer 2026 All are welcome to join a new book club at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor this winter. The Do the Work! Book Circle will meet on Thursday evenings from Jan 8th – March 5th For more infor...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), the top Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees the Kennedy Center and more than 70 of her colleagues in Congress have called on President Trump to reverse what they say is an illegal renaming effort The Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS’) Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) ur...