WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives

Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: Surry Rural Hall Surry Garden Club Surry Historical Society 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 add...

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 FMI: Bats Maine CDC Rabies page Maine IF&W Bats page Maine CDC’s disease reporting & consultation line: 1-800-821-5821 (available 24/7) Maine IF&W Game Warden Dispatch Centers (for bat pick-up and delivery) Augusta: 1-800-452-4664 Bangor: 1-800-432-7381 Houlton: 1-800-924-2261 Public comment period on Maine’s Draft State Wildlife Action Plan About the...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Tomorrow, Tuesday, August 5th at 6:30 p.m. the Bangor Band will hold a special event for families with a free, kid-centric concert at Chapin Park, Bangor. This Wednesday (8/6) the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine and Pax Christi Maine will hold an event in observance of the 80th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski. Messages, music and c...

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 After being temporarily stranded across Moosehead Lake’s Northwest Cove, Logan sets out to Seboomook Island and the conclusion of his multi-trip effort to document Red-breasted Merganser breeding in Maine. This essay, written and read by Logan Parker, was originally published in The Observer, an online natural history journal published by Maine...

Andree Bella | Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 8/3/25: The Listener 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: weru.org johnjohnbrown.com schoodicartsforall.org cannerysouthpenobscot.org peninsulapotters.com artwavesmdi.org swhplibrary.org leftbankbookshop.com About the host: Sarah Pebworth leads the steering committee for Word—a...

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...

About the Host: Tom Yaroschuk is a Vedic Astrologer. His intention is to help people understand their karma and the issues they may confront to cultivate more fulfilling lives. Tom is writing a memoir of the spiritual lessons derived from his work in a Homeless Day Center in between a career as an award winning television and documentary producer. The post The Cosmic Curator 8/2/25 first appeared...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne -Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responds to the Trump DOJ’s request for Maine citizen’s voter records –Goodlife Center events this weekend –Urban farm tours in the Bangor/Brewer area tomorrow 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...

Host/s: Rob Ruffner Production Coordinator: Daria Cullen Other credits: TECHNICAL SUPPORT – Aaron Pyle and 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: Rob’s follow up interview with Frayla Tarpinian from the Capital Region Public Defenders Office, as they continue the c...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne New York and Maine based award-winning writer/artists Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer are here with a “save the date” for their return to the Blue Hill Library to present excerpts from three decades of book and performance projects. As co-founders of EarSay, a non-profit dedicated to nurturing and portraying stories of uncelebrated individuals, the couple have...

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE Is there no time left to explore other ways of seeing, being, solving, and surviving? Where can we place our energy and imagination to serve as functions of invention? What if there are new ways of thinking about what and how we invest for the future? WORLD OCEAN RADIO 5-minute weekly insights dive into ocean science, advocacy...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Shaina Fraser, Executive Director at Families First, is here with information about their services, the upcoming annual dinner and auction that help support their programs, and ways those who are interested can help. 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 D...

Word Festival: Lorne – In a year of anniversaries, Saturday Night Live turned 50, and The New Yorker celebrated its first century. To mark the occasion, Word and Working Loose, the Blue Hill “concept shop” and art gallery, hosted a conversation between two New Yorker editors, one of whom has written the definitive biography of SNL founder Lorne Michaels. The event took pl...

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 Ara and Kai Bravesnow return to invite you all to the Midcoast Gem and Mineral Fair. It starts Friday evening and runs through the weekend at the Bayview Point Event center in Belfast on the waterfront. You can find them on facebook at “Midcoast Gem and Mineral Fair”. Earlier this month they joined Around Town to talk about the Midcoast Mineral Collectors Club...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne College of the Atlantic Summer Institute 2025 ACLU-Maine What Happened in Augusta: Looking Back on the 2025 Legislative Session 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’...

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 The final opportunity to document breeding Red-breasted Mergansers arrives, but events take an unexpected turn with the shifting of the wind. This essay, written and read by Logan Parker, was originally published in The Observer, an online natural history journal published by Maine Natural History Observatory. More information about Maine Natural Hist...

CJ Kenna | Producer + Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 7/27/25: Acceptance Is Freedom 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: michaelchabon.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-chris-doyle castineart.com eastbluehillpubliclibrary.org workingloose.com wordfestival.org bhpl.net surrybarn.com americanswhotellthetruth.org belfastpoetryfestival.com mainewrit...

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...

About the Host: Tom Yaroschuk is a Vedic Astrologer. His intention is to help people understand their karma and the issues they may confront to cultivate more fulfilling lives. Tom is writing a memoir of the spiritual lessons derived from his work in a Homeless Day Center in between a career as an award winning television and documentary producer. The post The Cosmic Curator 7/26/25 first appeared...