Weru 89.9 Fm Blue Hill, Maine Local News And Public Affairs Archives

Host/Producer: Amy Browne An audio postcard from the Alewives Festival in Pembroke, Maine in May 2025. Produced by IDEA homeschool student Beatrice Alsop-Cheeney, with assistance from Kate Blofson, beekeeper and community radio organizer at WRUJ in Richmond, Vermont, along with the Greenhorns parents group and Downeast Salmon Federation. 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 WBA