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Around Town 4/23/24: Local News, Culture and Events WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
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Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: www. greatpondtrust.org www.mainesalmonrivers.org/events www.disasterassistance.gov , 1-800-621-3362 or go to a FEMA office. In Hancock County the FEMA office is in Ellsworth at the Moore Community Center, and in Washington County there is now a FEMA office at UMaine Machias. 9-5, Monday thru Saturday www.maineinitiatives.org/ www.weru.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
Host/Producer: Amy Browne FMI: www. greatpondtrust.org www.mainesalmonrivers.org/events www.disasterassistance.gov , 1-800-621-3362 or go to a FEMA office. In Hancock County the FEMA office is in Ellsworth at the Moore Community Center, and in Washington County there is now a FEMA office at UMaine Machias. 9-5, Monday thru Saturday www.maineinitiatives.org/ www.weru.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
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