Around Town 8/27/25: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Campaign to Protect Sears Island / Wahsumkik invites those interested to join them for an update on what’s happening with the island, the proposed offshore wind facility, and efforts to protect the island permanently, tonight from 6:30 to 8 pm at the Bayside Community Hall. Jill Howell returns to Around Town this morning with the details. Parking/shuttles at Edna Drinkwater School 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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