Around Town 12/31/25: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Kids’ Noon Year’s Eve Party today, 11:00AM – 12:00PM at the Ellsworth Public Library

Family friendly New Year’s Eve celebration in Blue Hill at the Shaw Institute, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm today. Space is limited, so registration is required

The Carver Memorial Library in Searsport family/kids mid-day New Year Eve event, today at 11 with “countdown” to noon. FMI: Carver Memorial Library’s facebook page

Rockland Public Library kid’s new year party, starts at 11 this morning.

Rockport’s Holiday on the Harbor festivities will begin in the village as the sun sets at 4:30 p.m

The Maine Outdoor School’s 5th Annual New Year’s Eve Sunset Hike starts at 2:30 this afternoon. Free, but registration is required

Eastport’s 21st annual New Year’s Eve Great Sardine and Maple Leaf drop at midnight (will also be live streamed through Tides Institute & Museum of Art’s Facebook and Instagram pages– starting a little before midnight in the Atlantic time and Eastern time zones.)

The Winter Harbor Music Community Opera and the Downeast Chamber Orchestra perform Johann Strauss II’s Opera die Fledermaus at 7:00 tonight at Hammond Hall, 427 Main Street, Winter Harbor

Last Night Belfast kicks off at 3:30 in locations around the downtown area.

Bangor’s annual “Downtown Countdown” is one of Maine’s largest, free public New Year’s Eve celebrations. The beach ball drops at midnight. Associated activities throughout the day and an afterparty.

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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