WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Locally produced radio magazine on cultural & community events & people. Every Wednesday from 4:00 – 4:30 PM
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Denis Howard, Tommy Dean, Joel Mann (theme music)
Topics: Denis Howard interviews folk musician Bob Franke; Tommy Dean interviews country music’s Doug Kershaw; columnist Lawrence Reichard joins us for an update on the Gary Tyler murder case.
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Eric Olson, Matt Murphy, Carolyn Coe, Meredith DeFrancesco, Joel Mann (theme music)
Topics: Sounds from the “From Every Village Green” events in Winterport, Orland, and Bangor last weekend; proposed legislation to improve the lives of dogs “chained for life”; Cuba Solidarity; the re-publication of an important book on Penobscot history and culture.
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Topics/guests: An interview with columnist Lawrence Reichard about the Gary Tyler murder case; Karen Larsen with a celebration of the Vernal Equinox
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Production Assistance: Joan Federman (recording), Keith Fisher (editing)
Topic: Alan Caron, founder, President and CEO of GrowSmart Maine, speaking in January in Ellsworth at an event sponsored by the Downeast Chapter of the League of Women Voters. He describes the findings and recommendations of the GrowSmart report. FMI: www.growsmartmaine.org
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributing producer: Eric Olson
Topics: A speaker from Mexico describes the struggle of the Zapatistas to protect their communities from the impacts of so-called free trade, FMI: www.mexicosolidarity.org and www.defensorescomunitarios.org
and Kate Harris describes the upcoming “Who Owns Maine’s Water–A Symposium on Water Commons”, that will be taking place at the University of Maine Farmington on March 24th, FMI: www.defendingwaterinmaine.org)
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Meredith DeFrancesco, John McVeigh, Joel Mann (theme music)
Topics: An interview with Passamaquoddy tribal member and educator Wayne Newell, who was nominated by Maine’s governor last week to the University of Maine board of trustees. He will be the first Native American to serve on the University Board; and an inside look at the local contradance scene.
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Henry Owen, Paul Conte, Keith Fisher
Topics: An interview with “From Every Village Green” organizers, Ron Greenberg and Suzanne Fitzgerald (http://www.everyvillage-me.us) about the events that are planned across the state marking the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq on March 17th; An interview with Ann Luther from Maine Citizens for Clean Elections (www.mainecleanelections.org) and the League of Women Voters (www.lwv.org) about the check off box on the Maine tax form for contributions to the Clean Elections fund; And local computer guru/curmudgeon Al Scott offers his view on net neutrality.
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Andree Bella, Meredith DeFrancesco, Karen Ireland, Carolyn Coe, Matt Murphy, John Greenman
Topics: An interview with Larry Reynolds, a Belfast man who is starting a new high school there, and the premier of two new WERU short features: “The Radio Sumpul Sister Station Report” and “Going and Doing”–that will start airing on Morning Maine starting next week.
