WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio 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...

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...

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 5/9/26 first appeared...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Andrea LaFlamme, write-in candidate for the Senate primary race on June 9th Past coverage: Graham Platner‘s opening remarks at Wabanaki Alliance Forum on Indian Island, 4/16/26 David Costello‘s opening remarks at Wabanaki Alliance Forum on Indian Island, 4/16/26 (Senator Susan Collins and Governor Janet Mills were invited but did not attend. Mills has since wi...

Host/s: AJ Stash, Kage Johnson, and Hawo Mohamed 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: Tyrique, Mags, and AJ discuss how Mental Health program changes and Peer Support can help Mainers. Guest: Tyrique and Mags The post Justice Radio 5/7/26: Mental Health changes a...

Host: Kate Cough, 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: On this episode of the Maine Monitor Radio Hour, government accountability reporter Josh Keefe, elections and government reporter Ma...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Check out all these great public affairs programs made possible by volunteer power and listener support! (Thank you!) Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License The post Around Town 5/7/26: Local News, Culture and Events first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine L...

Host/Producer: Rhonda Feiman Co-Producer: Petra Hall Technical Assistance: Joel Mann Healthy Options: For Well-being & Being Well This month: – The spreasd of new tick species and diseases in Maine & the Northeast – Prevention is the best medicine! Keep ticks from attaching. Create a barrier with clothes. Using permethrin on clothes & gear (embedded commercially, or sprayed...

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE As we’ll demonstrate this week, climate denial is a foolish mistake. We’ll show the ways that denial allows us to ignore prospects of sea level rise, extreme weather, floods and coastal inundations, access and supply chain disruptions, hampered training and preparedness to meet conditions, denials that lead us into wars and c...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne League of Women Voters of Maine’s June 9th Semi-Open Primary Voter Guide The VOTER HOTLINE number is 207-558-3333 The Maine Dept of Environmental Protection has issued a Notice of Opportunity to File for intervenor status in an upcoming public hearing on the controversial Juniper Ridge Landfill expansion Community Action has expanded their Walk-in-Wednesdays for hea...

Hosts: Nolan Altvater and Nick Bear Recording and Editing: Nick Bear Original music: Nick Bear Dawnland Signals highlights indigenous topics not immediately represented in mainstream media and is meant to share, inspire, and inform. This month: A conversation about the roles of running within indigenous communities as a way to connect to our homelands and build healthy communities. We are joined b...