Around Town 5/28/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

If you visit a grocery store in Hancock or Washington county this coming Friday, you have a good chance of meeting someone from Downeast Community Partners, the community action program for that area. DCP’s mission is “to improve the quality of life and reduce the impact of poverty in Downeast communities”. One of the needs they have identified is for cleaning and personal care items. Which is why you may meet them at your local grocery store on Friday.

Guest:

Tawney Jacobs, Supportive Services Director at Downeast Community Partners. FMI: downeastcommunitypartners.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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