WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives

Host/Producer: Rhonda Feiman Co-Producer: Petra Hall Technical Assistance: Joel Mann Healthy Options: For Well-being & Being Well This month: – What exactly is healthy aging? – How stress affects memory & brain function, & how we can reduce the negative effects of cortisol. – Mild cognitive impairment, dementia, & Alzheimer’s disease explained. – How sleep a...

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE As we address the social and environmental challenges of the day, we are prone to double down on past ideas and approaches. This week on World Ocean Radio we’ll argue for invention as a primary way forward: to embrace change in technology, financial valuation, political cooperation, and affirmation of the social contract as a way t...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Chrissy Fowler from Belfast Flying Shoes with events over the next two weekends to get YOUR shoes flying! 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 Af...

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 Hungry Now screening and discussion at the Colonial Theatre in Belfast tonight, a benefit for Waldo County Bounty “Get Them Out of the Attic! Caring for Family Photos and Papers with Archivist Jules Thomson, tonight at the Wilson Museum’s Hutchins Education Center on Perkins street in Castine, or go to tje museum’s calendar for the zoom link. League of W...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne No Kings Day #3, March 28th, 2026 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 to RadioActive, Voices, M...

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 winter irruption of Bohemian Waxwings into Maine, where flocks descend from boreal breeding grounds in search of lingering fruits such as crabapples and mountain ash. He describes their gregarious behavior, fruit-based courtship rituals, and surprising presence in towns and cities, reminding us that even in winter’s...

Andree Bella | Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 3/29/26: Coleman Barks & Rumi first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs 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: Steve Kahl Power for the People: Energy education and solutions for Mainers and Maine communities This month: Update on MDI’s A Climate to Thrive. Guest/s: Johannah Blackman, Executive Director. Wilson Haims, Manager of COmmunity Engagement and Resilience. FMI: www.aclimatetothrive.org/ About the host: Steve Kahl developed and has hosted Power for the People since 2015. He ret...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne No Kings Day #3, March 28th, 2026 No Kings info and event calendar 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 a...

Host/s: Rob Ruffner 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: Rob and Valerie talk about her work, as former defense attorney, prosecutor, and in immigrant law. Guest: Valerie Adams The post Justice Radio 3/26/26: District Attorney candidate Valerie Adams first appear...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Mary Ann Larson with the details about No Kings Day in Bangor (Saturday 3/28, 12-1 pm), and an Empty Chair Town Hall (Susan Collins has declined to attend), next Monday, 3/30, doors open at 5:30pm) at Jeff’s Catering in Brewer FMI: Indivisible Bangor Maine People’s Alliance No Kings info and event calendar About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a vo...

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE This week Peter Neill is spending time with his library of books, sharing three titles that quietly evoke the emotion of loss, and the paradox of things lost. “An Exaltation of Larks”, by James Lipton; “A Calendar of Saints for Unbelievers”, by Glenway Wescott; and “The Atlas of Remote Islands” by Judith Shalansky each sit light in the h...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne “Youth Ask the Questions: Gubernatorial Primary Candidate Forum” tomorrow evening, 6-8pm, at the Portland Media Center, hosted by Community Organizing Alliance, Maine Youth Power, and Young People’s Caucus. Click here FMI and to register for link to watch remotely There will be a watch party in the basement stacks at the Jesup Library in Bar Harbor. Points Nor...

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: Research conclusions by Evan Richert and Roger Milliken Jr. They find the Wabanaki Tribes und...

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 Maine Monitor investigation by reporter Josh Keefe has found that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has a new internal affairs office in Bangor, strike at BIW, EMMC nurses cancel strike and vote on new contract tomorrow, No Kings Day, “Empty Chair”/Susan Collins town hall About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affair...

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Tomorrow evening, 6-7:30PM, the group “No Penobscot County Jail Expansion” is offering a virtual community presentation called Rethinking Incarceration: The Myth of Public Safety Register for zoom link The 3rd No Kings Day is coming up on Saturday the 28th. For more information and to find an event near you: NoKings Mobilize Activate Maine About the host: Amy...

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 Logan explores the hidden world of Eastern Meadow Voles living within the subnivean zone beneath Maine’s winter snowpack. He describes their tunnel networks, grass-lined nests, and winter survival strategies, placing these small mammals within the broader ecology of predators, seed dispersal, and seasonal population cycles. More information about Main...

CJ Kenna | Producer & Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 3/22/26: St Patrick 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: villagercafe.com belfastlibrary.org friendml.org bhpl.net ellsworthlibrary.net About the host: Sarah Pebworth leads the steering committee for Word—a Blue Hill Literary Arts Festival, founded in 2017 and held each Octobe...

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...