Donate to WERU Today!Host/Producer: Amy Browne
This coming Saturday will be busy day in Belfast — including the Belfast Pride celebration and a Climate Resilience Fair happening in close proximity. Brenda Harrington and Ellie Daniels of the Waldo County Climate Coalition join us with the details of that event. UPDATE 6/4/25: ORGANIZERS HAVE POSTPONED THIS EVENT DUE TO WEATHER. THEY PLAN TO HOLD THE EVENT THIS FALL
The Climate Resilience Fair is sponsored by the Belfast Free Library and Waldo County Climate Action Coalition. Saturday, June 7th, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM. at Steamboat Landing (adjacent to the Belfast Boathouse)
Belfast Pride, Saturday, June 7th, is hosted by the Belfast Area High School Gender and Sexuality Alliance and Our Town Belfast. Those who are planning to march in the parade should line up at 10:30 at the high school. The parade starts at 11 and ends at Heritage Park for a party from noon-2pm
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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