Around Town 4/10/25: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

The Rockland Public Library presents Eric Darling, Thursday, April 10, at 2:00 PM. This event is free and open to all.
The Rockland Public Library is located at 80 Union St. For more information or for Zoom links, please email [email protected].

Applications are now open for the 2025 Immigrant-Led Organizations (ILO) Fund.
The ILO Fund at Maine Initiatives is a participatory grantmaking program that funds, strengthens, and convenes immigrant, refugee, and migrant non-profit organizations in Maine, unceded Wabanaki Territory.
FMI: www.maineinitiatives.org/grantmaking/immigrant-led-organizations-fund

The Friends of Sears Island is currently taking registrations for free Earth Explorers grab-and-go activity kits for children.
To request a kit for your child, please email [email protected].

Our locally-produced public affairs program today, 4-4:30p.m. is Common Ground Radio w/ host Holli Cederholm of MOFGA Today’s topic will be Resilient Gardening.

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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