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People and sounds that are important parts of Penobscot Bay : its wild gulls, and bouldery landwash, the call and chant refrains of Penobscot Bay foghorns hard at work on fishing boats and lighthouses, on a socked-in morning. The thoughts, memoirs and plans of the people of the bay, from retired highliners to busy harbormasters and state and federal government officials under whose stewardship some aspect of Maine's biggest bay falls.

11/27/2015

Rockland Maine poet laureate emeritus Kendall Merriam reads from his recent and past works

On November 21, 2015, Rockland poet Kendall Merriam visited WRFR's studio and read three poems and the introduction to his 1980s work Medvedb's Journal The reading starts with the recenty written "Bear Dance" a poetic tribute to Merriam's long time friend the late Gunnar Hansen. This is followed by a reading of Hansens introduction to Merriam's book "Medvedb's Journal". It is entitled Medved dances. Next: "An open Poem to ISIS" written in Thomaston in 2015. Followed by "At the cafe" written in paris in 2013. Medved's Journal was published by Blackberry Books of Nobleboro Maine A reviewer at the Bollard wrote: "I suppose one would call Medvedb’s Journal a novel, though there’s no plot, hardly any dialogue, and really only one character: Medvedb, a very horny, schizophrenic poet who thinks he’s both a bear and the president of the United States."

18 min
05/23/2012

Maine Task force answers questions about Norwegian floating windpower plan

On May 23rd the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held a two hour virtual meeting of the Maine Ocean Energy Task Force to discuss next steps for reviewing energy giant Statoil's plan to deploy four deepwater wind turbines 12+ miles off Brunswick, Maine. The meeting was followed at 3pm by this 25 minute public conference call in which BOEM officialo Aditi Mirani led a question and answer session about the meeting and about where the Statoil plan presently stands

21 min
05/21/2010

Maine Windpower Forum Rockport Maine, May 20, 2010 Part 3

Part 3 of May 20, 2010 meeting at Rockport Opera House, Rockport Maine. 50 Minutes Long. Topics: Plan for windfarm on Camden Hills's Ragged Mountain, and a question and answer session, including Des Fitzgerald of Principle Power about his company's offshore windmill designs

51 min
05/21/2010

Maine Windpower Forum Rockport Maine, May 20, 2010 Part 2

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53 min
05/21/2010

Maine Windpower Forum Rockport Maine May 20,. 2010 Part 1

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43 min
09/07/2009

The Emperor Lays an Egg - read by Kalen Darney.

Emperors are known for many things, but only an amazing emperor - the Emperor Penguin- lays eggs. Find out how and why in this fascinating book by Brenda Z. Guiberson, illustrated by Joan Paley. Read to you by Kalen Darney, on WRFR Community Radio's Penobscot Bay Report for September 3, 2009

14 min
06/16/2009

Energy Ocean: Obama's Dept of Interior sets course for US wave & tidal energy

On June 15, 2009 Maureen Bornholdt of the federal Office of Offshore Alternative Energy Programs gave this 40 minute keynote speech to the participants of Energy Ocean 09, at the Samoset Resort in Rockport Maine. Bornholdt describes how her office (a branch of the US Interior Department) has been given the mandate of rationalizing the exploitation of alternative ocean energy in federal and US EEZ waters. To that end she and her staff have put together a Framework to guide the granting of leases, easements and rights of way for renewable energy on the Outer Continental Shelf. Bornholdt's talk was followed by a lengthy Q & A session, that is being uploaded seperately.

42 min
05/31/2009

Weekend Roundtable - Maine state prison warden, officials under self-investigation

Today's 30 minute podcast reviews an recent article by Kim Lincoln of Village Soup's Rockland Herald Gazette on the interim results of an investigation by OPEGA, Maine's Office of Program Evaluation & Government Accountability, into the wrongdoings of Maine state prison officials, including Warden Jeffery Merrill and assistant corrections commissioner Denise Lord. Interlaced with a few choice excerpts of Jimi Hendrix music Regrettably, the Legislature voted a few days ago to terminate the OPEGA investigation and leave it up to Maine Department of Corrections to investigate themselves. In their words: "...allow the Department of Corrections to address these questions in continuing the cultural change work it has initiated in a more deliberate, coordinated and accelerated fashion. OPEGA, the Government Oversite Committee and/or the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee would receive periodic updates from the Department on the status of its cultural change efforts and the results achieved. In this way, the Department would be held accountable to pursue necessary change." Uh huh. 'held accountable'? Magnusson, Merill and Lord must have laughed all the way back to their prison fastness. See recent meeting minutes about the maine state prison review at http://www.maine.gov/legis/opega/GOC/GOC_meetings/Current_handouts/5-22-09/Meeting%20Summary-Tab%201.pdf

30 min

People and sounds that are important parts of Penobscot Bay : its wild gulls, and bouldery landwash, the call and chant refrains of Penobscot Bay foghorns hard at work on fishing boats and lighthouses, on a socked-in morning. The thoughts, memoirs and plans of the people of the bay, from retired highliners to busy harbormasters and state and federal government officials under whose stewardship some aspect of Maine's biggest bay falls.

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2009 - 2015
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