Around Town 8/1/23: Upcoming Events at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Lila Miller, Director of Advancement and Community Relations at Jesup Memorial Library invites you to join them for An Evening with Ann Patchett for her new novel, “Tom Lake” this Saturday (pre-registration required) and their 53rd Annual Book Sale coming up on the 19th.

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.