Around Town 4/15/25: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Joe Neimczura with an invitation to join the band playing at the “Stand Up for Democracy” rally next Saturday at Steamboat Landing Park in Belfast. Musicians with instruments should arrive at 10 and check in with Joe (he says you’ll hear them) to prep for the rally (noon – 2pm). This is part of a national day of action. FMI: www.activatemaine.com/calendar * *As of when this program was produced, the time and location of the rally in Belfast had not been updated on the website. INDIVISIBLE Waldo County’s poster reads: “THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 12-2:00 Meet at Steamboat Landing for a peaceful protest. Stand up for Democracy. There will be a brass band. Bring drums or pots and pans! We will walk to the Pedestrian Bridge Marshalls, peacekeepers and medics on hand. Please cooperate for everyone’s safety and to protect private property. See you there.” 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 The post Around Town 4/15/25: Local News, Culture and Events first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.