Weru 89.9 Fm Blue Hill, Maine Local News And Public Affairs Archives

Host/Producer: Amy Browne John and Courtney Jurcheck from the Counter Current Collective in Belfast join us to talk about their production of Annie Baker’s The Aliens which is running on weekends thru mid-August — in an undisclosed location… FMI: www.becountercurrent.com/ 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, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the rec

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 — though not always! Sometimes in addressing issues affecting our day-to-day lives, in this age of vagary and ambiguity, when chronological time is punctuated elliptically, things can quickly turn edgy and controversial, as we search for understanding amid our dialectic. Tune in Monday mornings at 7:30 a.m. for an exciting journey through space and time with a few notable birthdays thrown in for good measure during A Word in Edgewise . . . About the host: RW Estela was raised as a first-generation American in Colorado by a German mother and a Corsican-Basque father who would become a three-war veteran for the US Army, s

CJ Kenna | Producer + Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 7/21/24: What’s Your Story? first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Good Morning, People! This is your cosmic curator, Tom Yaroschuk, with a look at the stars for the week of July 20 and the days ahead… 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 7/20/24: Intensity and Drama first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Author Talk with Noa Silver: California Dreaming at the Ellsworth Public Library on Saturday afternoon, 2-3:30pm.  Berit Becker joins us with the details.  FMI & to reserve a seat: www.ellsworthlibrary.net/summer-at-the-library-2024/ Native Gardens of Blue Hill Open House/Open Garden, Saturday 9am-1pm  FMI: www.nativemainegardens.org/upcoming-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 to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacific

Producer/host: Adina Salmansohn Other credits: Theme music written and performed by Ariel Chapman.   A monthly show exploring Maine‘s culture, art and crafts that enrich our lives and bring us joy.   This month: Astrig Tanguay, the founder of the Maker’s Guild of Maine in Searsport, Rich Hewitt, from the Signatures Online Gallery from the Witherle Memorial Library in Castine, and Silas Yates, the musician who is  the subject of the current Signatures Online Gallery exhibition.   About the Host: Adina Salmansohn started learning to play the trombone at the age of 8.  Her undergraduate years were at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Robert F. Boyd of the Cleveland Orchestra.  After returning to her native New York, she played freelance in the NY Metro area, including multiple orchestras, big bands, and a 17 year stint with The Soundview Brass Quintet, which she founded in 1980. In addition, she had a busy career as an arts administrator, directing

Host: Brianna Cunliffe Description: Climate & Community speaks with illustrator and designer Maisie Richards on her work helping communities visualize a future where we move towards a healthier relationship with our rivers and with the cycling of water that connects us all.  From specific projects related to dam removal to working with students thinking about biodiversity to collaborating with Penobscot colleagues to check the influence of western scientific biases in representations of landscapes, Maisie’s work strives toward expanding our imagination, and demonstrates the power of art in drawing us with excitement and hope towards the kind of world we want to create. Our conversation will continue next week.  For updates on current projects, you can follow her at www.instagram.com/roundwaterdesign/ and to learn more about her work, visit  www.maisierichards.com/. Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team a

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Chris Battaglia from Torchlight Media in Belfast joins us to talk about an upcoming training opportunity. FMI:  torchlightmaine.com 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, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for

Host: Peter Neill Producer: Trisha Badger ABOUT THIS EPISODE As we review the state of climate change challenge and response, it becomes clear we are not succeeding. Is it possible to craft a new economic system that values natural resource sustainability over depletion of those resources? Can we conceive a new economics, a forward-directed system of financial valuation and exchange based on the asset value of Nature? We’re discussing this and more this week on World Ocean Radio. WORLD OCEAN RADIO 5-minute weekly insights dive into ocean science, advocacy and education hosted by Peter Neill, lifelong ocean advocate and maritime expert. A catalog of more than 700 episodes offer perspectives on global ocean issues and viable solutions, and celebrate exemplary projects. Available for RSS feed and for broadcast by college and community radio stations worldwide. You will also find this week’s World Ocean Radio episode at Exchange.prx.org, at Audioport.org, WorldOceanObservatory.org where

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Food AND Medicine Urban Garden Tours and Workshops. Guests: Tamra Benson, Community Organizer and Johnny Sanchez, Volunteer Coordinator. FMI: foodandmedicine.org/greenhouse/urban-garden-tour/ 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, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of

Host: Carrie Clark (she, hers) Youth Educator and Advocate at NextStep Domestic Violence Project. NextStep 24/7 Helpline: 1(800) 315-5579 Music credit: Megan Light and Nathan Spears, local musicians, donated theme music for the show. Relationship Rewind: Rewinding relationships in popular media and breaking down behaviors based in power, control, and abuse. This episode: Discussing unhealthy behaviors in relationships shown in the tv show How I Met your Mother. Discussing how media normalizes these behaviors. Discussing the impacts of these messages about relationships on young people. Guest/s: Maeve (she/her), local high school student. About the hosts: Alli Williamson (she, her) is the youth educator and advocate for NextStep Domestic Violence Project based in Hancock and Washington County, ME. She teaches young people from Kindergarten to College about what power and control looks like in friendships and relationships, what resources are available to support those experiencing this, and how we can work to

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 cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land trust for 23 years, and met a wonderful partner whom Larry has loved for over 40 years. Larry has produced Outside the Box features on WERU since 2007 and continues to look for unique ways of seeing almost any problem or situation. The post Outside the Box 7/16/24: “Limitarianism” first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Public hearing on Casella / Juniper Ridge Landfill, at the Wells Conference Center at the University of Maine today in 2 sessions- 1-3pm or 5:30-7:30pm FMI: www.facebook.com/dontwastemaine/   Funding for public media is once again under attack.  FMI: www.protectmypublicmedia.org    Barcelona at the Alamo Theatre in Bucksport this week, a Wednesdays on Main event, has sold out  Road work today near the West Gardiner toll plaza 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, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs inc

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Summer is in full swing, and the annual event series sponsored by Wednesdays on Main in Bucksport is so busy this year that this week they have an event on Thursday as well: Guest: Paula Kee. Wednesdays on Main   FMI: www.bucksportmaine.gov/community/wednesday_on_main.php www.facebook.com/bucksportme/ 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, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News

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 — though not always! Sometimes in addressing issues affecting our day-to-day lives, in this age of vagary and ambiguity, when chronological time is punctuated elliptically, things can quickly turn edgy and controversial, as we search for understanding amid our dialectic. Tune in Monday mornings at 7:30 a.m. for an exciting journey through space and time with a few notable birthdays thrown in for good measure during A Word in Edgewise . . . About the host: RW Estela was raised as a first-generation American in Colorado by a German mother and a Corsican-Basque father who would become a three-war veteran for the US Army, s

Andree Bella | Writer/Reader The post Esoterica 7/14/24: Synchronicities first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Good Morning, People! This is your cosmic curator, Tom Yaroschuk, with a look at the stars for the week of July 13 and the days ahead… 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 7/13/24: Easy Does It first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa Music: Jackie Lee McLean Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse He strangled her, tried to smother her, forced her at gunpoint to take a bottle of sleeping pills and a judge lowered his bail so he could be released from custody. Topics: 1. Domestic violence murder hidden as suicide 2. Puffball sentencing of domestic abusers 3. Reckless Maine judges Guest: Anonymous About the host: Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine. The post Let’s Talk About It 7/12/24 first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Host/s: Catherine Besteman 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: Don’t miss Catherine’s interview this Sunday, 5/5 at 1:30pm with Martina Kartman and Devon Adams, cofounders of Collective Justice, as they talk about what their organization does, how and why it was founded, what it offers to those who have caused or experienced harm, and if something like this can be replicated in Maine. Guests: Martina Kartman and Devon Adams, cofounders of Collective Justice. About the hosts: The Justice Radio team includes: Leo Hylton is currently incarcerated at Maine State Prison, yet is a recent Master’s graduate, a columnist with The Bollard, a restorative and transformative justice advocate and activist, a prison abolitionist, and a Visiting Instructor at Colby College’s Anthropology Department, co-te

Host: Brianna Cunliffe Description: Climate & Community speaks with illustrator and designer Maisie Richards on her work helping communities visualize a future where we move towards a healthier relationship with our rivers and with the cycling of water that connects us all.  From specific projects related to dam removal to working with students thinking about biodiversity to collaborating with Penobscot colleagues to check the influence of western scientific biases in representations of landscapes, Maisie’s work strives toward expanding our imagination, and demonstrates the power of art in drawing us with excitement and hope towards the kind of world we want to create. Our conversation will continue next week.  For updates on current projects, you can follow her at www.instagram.com/roundwaterdesign/ and to learn more about her work, visit  www.maisierichards.com/. Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team a