Around Town 9/27/23: Local Elections Resources

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Description: 
20 years later, will opponents of big box developments near Stillwater Ave be proven right?

FMI:
www.vote411.org/
www.maine.gov/sos/news/2023/2023CitizensGuideOnline.html

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.

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Around Town 9/26/23: Bangor Studies Health of Penjajawoc Stream

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Description: 
20 years later, will opponents of big box developments near Stillwater Ave be proven right?

FMI:
www.bangormaine.gov/urbanimpairedstreams
Rich May at 992-4243 or by email to [email protected].

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.

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Around Town 9/25/23: Public Hearing on Mining Proposal in Katahdin Area

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Description: 
Melanie Sturm, Forest & Wildlife Director, Natural Resources Council of Maine talks about their concerns about the Wolfden mining proposal, and encourages those who can to come to LUPC public hearings on the issue in October.

FMI:
NRCM Mining Page: www.nrcm.org/programs/waters/metal-mining-pollution-maine/
LUPC Meetings 10/16-18 in Millinocket:  www.maine.gov/dacf/lupc/about/calendar/index.shtml

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.

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Around Town 9/22/23: Local News and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

FMI:
Maine Master Naturalist Program www.mainemasternaturalist.org
Castine Historical Society castinehistoricalsociety.org

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.

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Around Town 9/21/23: Local News and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

FMI:
Skate Bucksport: www.facebook.com/skatebucksport
Elm Street Congregational Church Bean Supper: www.facebook.com/events/975403443515295/?ref=newsfeed or call (207) 469-3333
Bangor Career Center: www.facebook.com/BangorCareers
Finding Our Voices: findingourvoices.net/
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners (MOFGA) Common Ground Fair info: www.mofga.org/the-fair/

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.

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Around Town 9/20/23: Local News and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

FMI:
MDI Hospital construction: www.mdihospital.org/featured/core-generation-renovation-project-construction-in-progress/
League of Women Voters information site: vote411.org (set to launch in early October)
GrowSmart Maine Summit: https://growsmartmaine.org/events/
Challenger Learning Center: www.astronaut.org/
Common Ground Fair info: www.mofga.org/the-fair/

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.

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Around Town 9/19/23: Local News with a Bit of History for Context

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

FMI:
Common Ground Fair:  www.mofga.org/the-fair/
Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife:  www.maine.gov/ifw/fish-wildlife/fisheries/aquatic-invasive-species.htm
Friends of Lower Kenduskeag Stream: facebook.com/groups/FOLKSbangor
Downeast Salmon Federation: www.mainesalmonrivers.org/
BDN article about Neo-Nazi Training Camp in Maine: www.bangordailynews.com/2023/08/07/news/penobscot/known-neo-nazi-building-training-ground-in-springfield-joam40zk0w/

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.

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Around Town 9/18/23: Upcoming (Free!) Events at Woodlawn in Ellsworth

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Kathy Young, Executive Director of Woodlawn Museum, Gardens and Park in Ellsworth joins us to talk about upcoming free events for all ages.

FMI:
Woodlawn (207) 667-8671
Ellsworth Chamber of Commerce

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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