Around Town 11/14/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Cathy Rees, Executive Director of Native Gardens of Blue Hill joins us with information about their “Sustainable Landscaping and Garden Maintenance” certificate course. It starts in January, but spaces are limited and registration is open now. There are some scholarship funds available.

FMI:
www.nativemainegardens.org/
email: [email protected]
To register: kvcc.me.edu/workforce

Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry, which serves people in need throughout Hancock County, is seeking new volunteers to help staff its market in Ellsworth. Prospective volunteers can learn more about available volunteer opportunities and apply on their website

FMI:
www.loavesandfishesellsworth.org/volunteer

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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