Around Town 12/2/25: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Dave Hollenberg, President of the Rural Hall in Surry, is here with an invitation to their 5th annual Festival of the Trees on Sunday, 12/7 from 2-5pm at the hall on Rt. 172 in East Surry. FMI: Surry Rural Hall on facebook

Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC)’s Rad Reading Group will be meeting via zoom on Wednesdays from noon to 1pm, starting this week. December’s book is Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi. Email [email protected] for more information and the zoom link

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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