Around Town 9/19/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

-Department of Environmental Protect is issuing a draft Public Benefit Determination for the expansion of the Juniper Ridge Landfill. Public comment period ends tomorrow (Friday) at 5pm.

-Rebecca Goldfine, the creator of the Maine by Foot online trail guide, will be talking about her work tonight at an event sponsored by the Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust, at Half-Mile Field in The Wildlands.

FMI:
www.greatpondtrust.org/
www.facebook.com/events/3154902604651896/

-The Walden Woods Project and RESTORE: The Maine Woods presentation by wilderness activist and author Jamie Sayen via zoom tonight from 7-8.

FMI and to register for the zoom link, go to: www.walden.org/events/

-Bangor Historical Society’s “Ghostly Bangor Tours” in October.

FMI and tickets: www.bangorhistoricalsociety.org

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 her work in 2017 and 2021.

Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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