Around Town 4/3/26: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Poetry Celebration at the Statehouse this afternoon, organized by the Maine Arts Commission in honor of National Poetry Month

Witherle Library and Castine Arts Association invite you to join them on Saturday afternoons in April for A Little Afternoon Music, from 1:30-2:30 in the Witherle’s Reading room

The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is looking for seasonal workers including life guards, rangers and customer service representatives to fill jobs at state parks and historic sites this summer

The Department of Marine Resources is looking for a volunteer island caretaker duo for the 2026 season, at Burnt Island Light in Boothbay Harbor. For more information or to apply, send a letter of interest to: [email protected]

The Maine Association of Broadcasters is accepting applications for $2000 scholarships for Maine students enrolled in a college communications-related field.

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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