WERU Community Radio

WERU Community Radio

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Join the Morning Maine Team on Tuesdays!

Join the Morning Maine Team on Tuesdays!

October 10, 2025

Are you a fan of Morning Maine on WERU? It airs every weekday from 6-9am. If you appreciate the great mix of music and spoken features, perhaps you’d be interested in becoming the new Tuesday Morning Maine DJ. Current host Mel is leaving, and we need a dedicated early-rising volunteer to take over the show. For more information on how to get involved, please email Joel Mann, Program Director, at joel@weru.org. He’d love to talk with about joining the Morning Maine team! And many thanks to Mel for all the great music!

Nature Notes: A Maine Naturalist Afield – Sailing the Maine Coast

Nature Notes: A Maine Naturalist Afield – Sailing the Maine Coast

October 8, 2025

Nature Notes: A Maine Naturalist Afield is a 5-minute, spoken-word program produced by staff of the Maine Natural History Observatory (MNHO) that discusses natural history topics relating to Maine’s flora and fauna from the perspective of field biologists and naturalists.

Listen to the recent 7-part series produced by MNHO executive director, Glen Mittelhauser, about sailing the Maine Coast and discussing the natural history he sees on the way. Along the trip, Glen encounters coastal seabird colonies, moon jellyfish, and clouds of bioluminescent plankton. Listen through the WERU archives, or wherever you listen to podcasts!

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Volunteer Profile: Tim Parson

Volunteer Profile: Tim Parson

October 2, 2025

Back in November. you might have chanced upon and listened to a surprise on-air collaboration between Tim Parson, one of the hosts of On the Wing Monday, and his sister, Anne. What a show it was! Tim and Anne together played a selection from their family collection of 45s, all old vinyl spun on the studio’s two turntables. Listening to that amazing show made us want to know more about this co-host of Monday’s edition of On the Wing. Meet Tim Parson.

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Democracy Forum: What’s On Your Ballot?

Democracy Forum: What’s On Your Ballot?

October 2, 2025

This month, Democracy Forum discusses the two ballot questions that appear on the November 4 state ballot in Maine. How does the citizen initiative process work in Maine? What are the two ballot questions this year? What the new laws would do, if passed? What are the proponents saying; what are the opponents saying? Who’s funding the campaigns? Join host Ann Luther from the League of Women Voters of Maine, along with guests Mark Brewer, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Maine, Amy Fried, Professor Emerita of Political Science, University of Maine, and Michael Shepherd, Political editor at the Bangor Daily News.

Listen to the most recent episode of Democracy Forum from the League of Women Voters of Maine in the WERU archives here!

Participatory Democracy, encouraging citizens to take an active role in government and politics. Tune in every 3rd Friday of the month at 4pm!

A World of Music Ukrainian Special Guest

A World of Music Ukrainian Special Guest

October 1, 2025

On Sunday, July 27 from 6 to 8 pm, A World of Music host Greg Rossel welcomed Anna Dovhanych, a foreign exchange student from Ukraine attending high school in Blue Hill. Anna shared a range of music from her country, from traditional wedding songs to contemporary rock and pop, including several of her favorite artists. She even received a text from her parents back home, where it was 2 am! You can listen to the entire program here.

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Featured Artist of the Week

“Morning Maine” Featured Artist of the Week:  TRAVIS LLOYD

“Morning Maine” Featured Artist of the Week: TRAVIS LLOYD

Travis Lloyd is our “Featured Artist of the Week”!  Tune in each weekday morning at 7:45 AM (ET) to hear our volunteer disc jockey play at least one song from his new album Ferns.

DJ Denis will interview Travis and his father Russ live in our On-Air Studio at 8:30 AM on Friday, October 24th!

Travis Lloyd grew up in Brooks, Maine.  He moved around the country after school, worked in the music industry briefly and played in various groups before returning to Waldo County in 2008.  Since then he has written and performed music with The Rugged, The Leaky Boot Jug Band and The Hot Suppers.  His first solo album Ghost Flower was released in 2018.  The new album Ferns was self-recorded in his home in Jackson and mastered by Lincon Clapp in Belfast.

travislloyd1.bandcamp.com is the site where people can get in touch, get the album for FREE or name their price. 

 

Wabanaki Land Acknowledgement

WERU Community Radio acknowledges that the radio station exists in the place we now call Maine, which is home to the sovereign Wabanaki people. We are very grateful to be here and honor the ancestral and contemporary Wabanaki peoples indigenous to these places in the Dawnland.

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Top Albums of the Week

Top Albums 10/14/2025

1 BEWARE WOLVES Beware Wolves Volume 10
2 FAR WEST Everything We Thought We Wanted
3 ANNA TIVEL Animal Poem

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Meetings of the WERU Board of Directors take place on the third Monday of each month at 5:00 p.m., unless the meeting falls on a holiday. Meetings are open for public observation and there is a fifteen-minute public comment period at the beginning of each meeting. Most meetings are held virtually. For more information please call 469-6600 or email info@weru.org.

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P.O. Box 170
1186 Acadia Highway
East Orland, Maine 04431
89.9 FM Midcoast, Downeast and Bangor

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