WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives

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...

Host: Tiegan Paulson Coastal Conversations: Conversations with people who live, work, and play on the Maine coast, hosted by the University of Maine Sea Grant Program. Matt McKenzie saw the cod fishery collapse from the window of a school bus. He watched day after day on his way to school as the boats accumulated in the harbor. But that was only the culmination of a story that began over five hund...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Pete Nichols, Penobscot Bay Waterkeepers joins us to talk about the group, their efforts to purchase the parcel of land that was targeted for development by the defeated Nordic Aquafarms proposal, and Bay Bash, an upcoming celebration! Contradance at the UU Church in Bangor. FMI: uubangor@gmail.com Maine Open Farm Day/s this weekend About the host: Amy Browne started out...

Host/s: Linda Small and Mackenzie Kelley 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: Linda and Mackenzie’s follow up interview with Meghan Reedy, Program Coordinator for the Maine Hum...

Host: Wilson Haims Description: Climate and Community builds upon last week’s conversation with Dani Robbins, learning about her perspective with rural organizing, youth involvement in justice movements, and how to get involved in strengthening local communities. About the Host: Wilson Haims is from Portland, Maine and earned her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from Wellesley College in...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine ACLU webinar: What Happened in Augusta: Looking Back on the 2025 Legislative Session July 30, 2025 @ 7:00 pm –8:00 pm Congresswoman Chellie Pingree speaking out against recent budget cuts — and more proposed for the 2026 budget. Watch on youtube About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting...

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE On June 8th, World Ocean Day, the new film OCEAN, presented by Sir David Attenborough, debuted in theatres and maritime museums around the world, a celebration of the ocean’s beauty and distress, and a passionate call for urgent protection. Who cares about the ocean? What will it take to reverse perspective and increase engagement? How d...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne -Art Under the Elms, Saturday, 7/26/25, 10am-4pm, on the Commons, Court Street, Castine. Roberta brings us the details. -A sampling of the news reported in Maine newspapers 100 years ago today 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 t...

Producer/Host: Donna Loring Other credits: Technical assistance for the show was provided by Joel Mann of WERU, and Jessica Lockhart. Music by Ralph Richter, a track called little eagles from his CD Dream Walk. Wabanaki Windows is a monthly show featuring topics of interest from a Wabanaki perspective. This month: The historic background of Korean and WWII, and some stories of Wabanaki Veterans an...

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: Grow Smart Maine webinar Jesup Memorial Library events 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...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Upcoming event, Social Security offices in Maine negatively impacted by Trump/Doge, according to the Maine AFL-CIO, and the headlines on Maine newspapers 100 years ago today (hint: a verdict had been reached following an infamous trial) About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioAc...