Around Town 5/8/26: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Justice Radio 5/7/26: Mental Health changes and Peer Support for Maine

Host/s: AJ Stash, Kage Johnson, and Hawo Mohamed
Editor: Sarah Johnson
Music: Samuel James
Justice Radio is a WMPG production.

Justice Radio: Tackling the hard questions about our criminal legal system in Maine.

This week: Tyrique, Mags, and AJ discuss how Mental Health program changes and Peer Support can help Mainers.

Guest: Tyrique and Mags

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The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 5/7/26

Host: Kate Cough, Editor at The Maine Monitor.

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: On this episode of the Maine Monitor Radio Hour, government accountability reporter Josh Keefe, elections and government reporter Matt Junker, and senior reporter Rose Lundy, who covers health care, join editor Kate Cough in discussing their most recent stories.

Guests:
Josh Keefe, Matt Junker, and Rose Lundy.

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/

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Healthy Options 5/6/26: Update: Lyme disease, tick-borne illnesses & how to avoid tick bites

Host/Producer: Rhonda Feiman
Co-Producer: Petra Hall
Technical Assistance: Joel Mann

Healthy Options: For Well-being & Being Well

This month:
– The spreasd of new tick species and diseases in Maine & the Northeast
– Prevention is the best medicine! Keep ticks from attaching. Create a barrier with clothes. Using permethrin on clothes & gear (embedded commercially, or sprayed on carefully).
– Use repellants on skin (deet, picaridin, lemon-eucalyptus)
– Essential oils not effective for very long & may cause skin irritation
– Symptoms of tick infections for Alpha-gal syndrome, Lyme, Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Borrelia miyamotoi, Powassan virus & which ticks carry them
– When doxycycline is used & most effective, & other treatments for tick illness
– How soon can disease be transmitted after a bite (Powassan virus within 15 minutes!)

Guest(s):
Dr. Beatrice Szantyr on Lyme disease & other tick-borne illness, for an update on tick diseases & new tick species which are spreading here in Maine (& beyond), how we need to be tick-conscious to try to prevent tick bites, & the challenges in identifying and treating tick-borne illness.

FMI:
EPA info on effective repellents
www.epa.gov/insect-repellents?

EPA tool to find the repellent that is right for you
www.epa.gov/insect-repellents/find-repellent-right-you

EPA info on repellent-treated clothing
www.epa.gov/insect-repellents/repellent-treated-clothing?

University of Maine Tick Lab?- Protect Yourself from ticks & tick-borne diseases?(Identify a tick for free; $20 to ID diseases the tick may contain)
extension.umaine.edu/ticks/

Tick testing Amherst MA. (tests for more diseases):
www.tickreport.com

Maine Tracking Network- Tickborne Diseases?Improving public health with better information:
data.mainepublichealth.gov/tracking/home

Columbia University Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center
www.columbia-lyme.org/

Powered by patients. Home of Lyme Times and My Lyme Data:
www.lymedisease.org/

TickEncounter  The University of Rhode Island Tick-borne Disease prevention Education
web.uri.edu/tickencounter/

This article is brief enough for a patient to bring to a doctor’s visit for them to consider:
The Management of Ixodes scapularis Bites in the Upper Midwest
wmjonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/110/2/78.pdf

ESPECIALLY FOR MEDICAL PROVIDERS:
VectorWise CME: “Empowering clinicians through vector-borne disease education – free, virtual, accredited CME”
vectorwisecme.org/

LymeCME: “Free, Evidence-based, AAFP-Accredited Courses that Physicians Can Trust”
lymecme.info/

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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World Ocean Radio 5/6/26: Climate and Defense

Host: Peter Neill
Producer: Trisha Badger

ABOUT THIS EPISODE
As we’ll demonstrate this week, climate denial is a foolish mistake. We’ll show the ways that denial allows us to ignore prospects of sea level rise, extreme weather, floods and coastal inundations, access and supply chain disruptions, hampered training and preparedness to meet conditions, denials that lead us into wars and conflicts to which we may be strategically unprepared to adapt.

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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Around Town 5/6/26: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

League of Women Voters of Maine’s June 9th Semi-Open Primary Voter Guide
The VOTER HOTLINE number is 207-558-3333

The Maine Dept of Environmental Protection has issued a Notice of Opportunity to File for intervenor status in an upcoming public hearing on the controversial Juniper Ridge Landfill expansion

Community Action has expanded their Walk-in-Wednesdays for heating assistance applications in Aroostook, Washington and Hancock counties as they encourage residents to apply for heating assistance as soon as possible. Walk-in appointments for the Home Energy Assistance (HEAP) program are available at their Ellsworth office on Avery Street from 9am to 4pm on Wednesdays through May. They recommend reviewing their list of helpful paperwork before coming in.

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

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Dawnland Signals 5/5/26

Hosts: Nolan Altvater and Nick Bear
Recording and Editing: Nick Bear
Original music: Nick Bear

Dawnland Signals highlights indigenous topics not immediately represented in mainstream media and is meant to share, inspire, and inform.

This month:
A conversation about the roles of running within indigenous communities as a way to connect to our homelands and build healthy communities. We are joined by Dustin Martin, a Dine runner and Chief Visionary Officer of WINGS of America, a Santa Fe based organization that works to build healthy Native communities by empowering youth through running, and Brian Altvater who is a Passamaquoddy elder with a deep experience in running and community organizing as the Wabanaki Wellness Coordinator for Wabanaki REACH.

Guests:
Dustin Martin and Buck Altavater.

FMI:
wingsofamerica.org

Links:
Wabanaki REACH: www.wabanakireach.org/
Dawnland Signals: www.wabanakireach.org/dawnland_signals

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