Around Town 11/23/23: Local News, Culture and Events




WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives show

Summary: Host/Producer: Amy Browne Speakers: Jack McKay, Executive Director, Food AND Medicine; Maulian Bryant, Penobscot Nation Tribal Ambassador; Rev. Andrew Moeller, Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor – at last week’s kick off of  Food AND Medicine’s 21st Solidarity Harvest.   FMI: foodandmedicine.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 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License