Around Town 3/18/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

An interview with Peter Dietrich of Blue Hill about an interactive climate workshop at Blue Hill Public Library tomorrow (Tuesday) evening at 6. The event will kick off organizing for a new Citizen’s Climate Lobby for Hancock county. And we fire up the Maine news time travel machine.

To attend the 3/19/24 workshop via zoom: Topic: Citizens’ Climate Education — MIT EN-ROADS Presentation
Time: Mar 19, 2024 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 860 9737 3431
Passcode: 275227

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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