Around Town 3/4/25: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Nancy Galland and David Italiaander- veteran advocates for protecting Sears Island from industrial development- are here with news about a public hearing on two proposed bills* to protect the island. The public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, March 12, 2025, starting at 10 am in the State Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.

*LD 266, An Act to Protect the Cultural Resources and Historical Heritage of Sears Island in Searsport by Extending Conservation Easement Protections, and LD 735, An Act to Protect Sand Dunes on Sears Island and to Establish Criteria for Legislation Regarding Land Development

FMI:
www.legislature.maine.gov/committee/#Committees/ENR
Legislature Clerk: 207-287-1400
www.protectsearsisland.org/
www.upstreamwatch.org/sears-island
www.friendsofsearsisland.org/
www.islesboroislandstrust.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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