Around Town 11/8/23: Local News, Culture and Events




WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives show

Summary: Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: LD1111 Work Session: legislature.maine.gov/billtracker/#Paper/1111?legislature=131   Age Friendly Sullivan: https://sullivanmaine.org/age-friendly-sullivan/   “CRISIS IN MIDDLE EAST: AN UPDATE ON ISRAEL, PALESTINE, AND THE KEY ISSUES” with Alex Grab, Professor Emeritus of History, The University of Maine  The program in the Bangor Room is scheduled for 12:30-1:45 and will probably continue until 2:00 p.m. Those using the Zoom will be able to access the above link starting at 12:25. The program will begin at 12:35. maine.zoom.us/j/81882242696?pwd=UlBqYjd4RFVHQll1cDE4QS80azhaQT09 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