Around Town 5/1/25: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

May Day events in Maine: the Maine AFL-CIO’s website and ActiveMaine have listings

Ed Spencer joins us to talk about the Water Ceremony and Rally for the Penobscot river, coming up on Sunday, hosted by Citizens of the Penobscot Nation, Sunlight Media Collective, Don’t Waste ME. and sling shot and allies. Organizers say “This will be an opportunity to be in ceremony with the River, call out the injustice of the Juniper Ridge Landfill, and rally for solutions”.

The Water Ceremony and rally for the Penobscot River starts at 11 a.m., Sunday, May 4th at Binette Park on Main Street in Old Town.

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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