The Nature of Phenology 9/23/23: Northern Harriers Migration

Producers: Hazel Stark & Joe Horn
Host: Hazel Stark

These raptors have been spending the summer breeding season across most of northern North America, from Alaska to Nova Scotia. Right now, they’re migrating to their winter haunts as far south as northern South America.

Photos, a full transcript, references, contact information, and more available at thenatureofphenology.wordpress.com.

About the host/writers:
Joe Horn lives in Gouldsboro, is Co-Founder of Maine Outdoor School, L3C, and is a Registered Maine Guide and Carpenter. He is passionate about fishing, cooking, and making things with his hands. He has both an MBA in Sustainability and an MS focused in Environmental Education. Joe can be reached by emailing [email protected]

Hazel Stark lives in Gouldsboro, is Co-Founder and Naturalist Educator at Maine Outdoor School, L3C, and is a Registered Maine Guide. She loves taking a closer look at nature through the lens of her camera, napping in beds of moss, and taking hikes to high points to see what being tall is all about. She has an MS in Resource Management and Conservation and is a lifelong Maine outdoorswoman. Hazel can be reached by emailing [email protected]

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Earthwise 9/23/23: Mabon, the Harvest of Self

Producer/Host: Anu Dudley

About the host: Rev. Dr. Anu Dudley is an ordained Pagan minister and a retired history professor. She continues to teach classes, including the three-year ordination curriculum at the Temple of the Feminine Divine, and others such as History of the Goddess, Paganism 101, Ethical Magic, and Introduction to the Runes. Currently she is writing a book about how to cast the runes using their original Goddess meanings. She lives in the woods off-grid in a small homesteading community in Central Maine.

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The Cosmic Curator 9/23/23: Repair and Get Organized

Good Morning, People! This is your cosmic curator, Tom Yaroschuk, with a look at the stars for the week of September 23rd and the days ahead.
The day begins with the moon in the ever optimistic sign of Jupiter. The moon in Sagittarius is a welcomed relief after a three day transit through the dark and heartbroken sign of Scorpio. So enjoy it…

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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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.

Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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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.

Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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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.

Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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Relationship Rewind 9/19/23: Dolly Parton’s Biggest Hits

Host: Carrie Clark, Youth Educator and Advocate at NextStep Domestic Violence Project. NextStep 24/7 Helpline: 1(800) 315-5579
Music credit: Megan Light and Nathan Spears, local musicians, donated theme music for the show.

Relationship Rewind: Rewinding relationships in popular media and breaking down behaviors based in power, control, and abuse.

This episode:

Discussing unhealthy behaviors in relationships shown in the songs “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love you”, written by Dolly Parton.
Discussing how media normalizes these behaviors.
Discussing the impacts of these messages about relationships on young people.

Guest/s: Cory Budden

About the hosts:
Alli Williamson is the youth educator and advocate for NextStep Domestic Violence Project based in Hancock and Washington County, ME. She teaches young people from Kindergarten to College about what power and control looks like in friendships and relationships, what resources are available to support those experiencing this, and how we can work to make our schools and communities safer and more equal spaces where abuse may be less likely to happen.

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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.

Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

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