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News & Public Affairs Archive
About the Host:
Tom Yaroschuk is a Vedic Astrologer. His intention is to help people understand their karma and the issues they may confront to cultivate more fulfilling lives. Tom is writing a memoir of the spiritual lessons derived from his work in a Homeless Day Center in between a career as an award winning television and documentary producer.
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Host/Producer: Amy Browne
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]
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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The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.
This month: Maine Monitor Editor Kate Cough is joined by Monitor Housing Reporter Caitlin Andrews, Education Reporter Kristian Moravec and Report for America Corps Member Dan O’Connor, who covers rural government for The Monitor in partnership with the Bangor Daily News. We talk about their recent reporting on a fund that would help towns convert empty schools into housing, a new approach to teaching reading and a police department that is using AI to draft reports.
Guests:
Caitlin Andrews, Kristian Moravec, and Dan O’Connor.
FMI:
themainemonitor.org/
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Host/Producer: Amy Browne
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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Host/Producer: Rhonda Feiman
Co-Producer: Petra Hall
Technical Assistance: Joel Mann
Healthy Options: For Well-being & Being Well
This month:
– What exactly is healthy aging?
– How stress affects memory & brain function, & how we can reduce the negative effects of cortisol.
– Mild cognitive impairment, dementia, & Alzheimer’s disease explained.
– How sleep affects the brain.
– How does exercise (such as Tai Chi, walking, dance & yoga) affect our cognition & help our brain & body as we age?
– Awareness of the effects of multiple medications on the brain.
– What health care workers are learning about healthy aging.
– Why “Forest bathing” and being in nature is so helpful to brain health & our sense of well-being.
Guest(s):
Geriatric psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Wehry, has been a passionate advocate for older people throughout her 40 plus year career, during which she has held a variety of clinical, administrative, academic and consulting roles across the country.
Dr. Wehry had served as Chief of Geriatrics at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, and for several years had been the Commissioner of Vermont’s Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living.
As a clinician, educator, policy maker, advocate and advisor, Dr. Wehry has shared her work with students, professionals, older adults and family caregivers, throughout the United States and abroad.
FMI:
Opinion: The Nature Pill 12/22/23 By Elizabeth Luo
www.nuscimagazine.com/opinion-the-nature-pill
Healing ourselves through nature: “The Nature Fix- Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative” (Florence Williams, author)
archives.weru.org/healthy-options/2017/11/healthy-options-11117/
Previous Healthy Options interview with Dr. Susan Wehry
archives.weru.org/healthy-options/2023/12/healthy-options-12-6-23-brain-health-and-aging-well/
About the host:
Rhonda Feiman is a nationally-certified, licensed acupuncturist practicing in Belfast, Maine since 1993. She primarily practices Toyohari Japanese acupuncture, using gentle and powerful non-insertion needle techniques, and also utilizes Chinese acupuncture and herbology. In addition, Rhonda is a practitioner of Qi Gong and an instructor of Tai Chi Chuan in the Yang Family tradition.
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Host: Peter Neill
Producer: Trisha Badger
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
As we address the social and environmental challenges of the day, we are prone to double down on past ideas and approaches. This week on World Ocean Radio we’ll argue for invention as a primary way forward: to embrace change in technology, financial valuation, political cooperation, and affirmation of the social contract as a way toward new, inventive, and innovative ways of thinking.
WORLD OCEAN RADIO
5-minute weekly insights dive into ocean science, advocacy and education hosted by Peter Neill, lifelong ocean advocate and maritime expert. A catalog of more than 730 episodes offering perspectives on global ocean issues and solutions, and celebrating exemplary projects. Available for RSS feed and broadcast by college and community radio stations worldwide via Exchange.prx.org and Audioport.org. Visit WorldOceanObservatory.org for the full catalog, searchable by theme.
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Host/Producer: Amy Browne
Chrissy Fowler from Belfast Flying Shoes with events over the next two weekends to get YOUR shoes flying!
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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Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger
About the host:
Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land trust for 23 years, and met a wonderful partner whom Larry has loved for over 40 years. Larry has produced Outside the Box features on WERU since 2007 and continues to look for unique ways of seeing almost any problem or situation.
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