Around Town 10/1/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Maine Department of Marine Resources has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the 2024-2025 Scallop season, and the deadline for public comment is Friday. The DMR’s proposed changes impact draggers and divers, the dates that the season will start and end by zone, and targeted closures. Lower Sheepscot and Damariscotta Rivers in Zone 1 along with Upper Machias Bay, Moosabec Reach and Upper Cranberries in Zone 2 are new proposed targeted closures for recovery and rebuilding. Gouldsboro and Dyers Bay along with Upper Blue Hill Bay are proposed as new limited access areas. FMI: www.maine.gov/dmr – on the Proposed Rulemaking page.

The League of Women Voters, Downeast Chapter, is holding a weekly series of Hancock County Candidates Nights starting next Monday, October 7th. The meetings will be held via zoom and there will be a chance to ask questions. Details about the schedule and candidates — and how to register to attend– can be found at www.lwvme.org and on the League of Women Voters Maine chapter’s facebook page.

At the Witherle Memorial Library in Castine this week, the Foreign Affairs Discussion group will look at the foreign policy views of the Presidential candidates from the Democratic, Republican, Green and Libertarian parties, as well as the candidates’ key foreign policy advisers. All are welcome to join them on Wednesday, October 2nd at 5pm. You can register for the zoom link — and find links to suggested reading — at www.witherlelibrary.net.

Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry in Ellsworth and Darling’s Chevrolet invite the public to their Darling’s Drives Out Hunger auction and fundraiser this week. The event will feature live and silent auction items, raffles, live music, cash bar and heavy hors d’oeuvres. Loaves & Fishes is counting on the auction and celebration to help raise operating funds, build and nourish community partnerships, and spread the word about the pantry’s mission. Thursday evening, 5-7pm at Darling’s in Ellsworth. Details and tickets at loavesandfishesellworth.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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