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Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responds to Trump’s latest attempt to federalize elections
The Maine Department of Marine Resources Bureau of Sea-Run Fish and Habitat (BSRFH) is announcing the return of Alewife Days, a spring program that connects students with Maine’s annual alewife run through hands-on field trips timed with peak alewife migration in local rivers and streams. FMI and to register Alewife Days coincides with World Fish Migration Day, with events happening globally leading up to May 23. Participating schools are encouraged, but not required, to register their trip as part of this international effort, themed “We Are River People.”
Registration is open for the American Lung Association’s 42nd annual Trek Across Maine in June. Organizers say they expect about 1000 participants this year, for the 3-day, 180-mile mile trek that will start and end at Pineland Farms in Gloucester. FMI and to register
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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