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WERU Community Radio 89.9 FM - diverse and grassroots radio serving Midcoast, Downeast & Bangor, a voice of many voices!

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NextWave Radio Hour Listening Session

NextWave Radio Hour Listening Session

June 26, 2022

NextWave Radio Hour is a new program coming to WERU featuring folks in their 20s and 30s, often referred to as Millennials, from all across Maine. In this program we will be discussing issues, news, and current events both locally and nationally, and featuring young creators who trail blaze their own paths in our modern political, economic, and social climate. Over the next few months, your host, Pepin Mittelhauser, hopes to provide you with unique perspectives of life from the next generation working to create the future they hope to lead, and the struggles they can encounter in reaching it.

WERU wants your input to help us look at important topics you hope to be covered! What issues do you think are the most important to the next wave of Mainers trying to make a life in our state?

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Fritz Homans, Rest in Peace

Fritz Homans, Rest in Peace

June 25, 2022

It is with profound sadness that we inform the WERU community that volunteer music programmer Fritz Homans, host of The Blues Station, passed away on June 16, after a brief battle with cancer. Fritz was a wonderful person who will be missed terribly by everyone. There will be a celebration of Fritz’s life on Saturday, July 9, 1 pm, at the Belfast Boathouse on the waterfront in Belfast. Thank you, Fritz, for the gift of great friendships and music!

The full obituary can be found here: obituaries.bangordailynews.com/obituary/frederick-west-fritz-homans-1085542340

GoldenOak w. Caroline Cotter – July 8th, Ellsworth – WERU Summer Concert Series

GoldenOak w. Caroline Cotter – July 8th, Ellsworth – WERU Summer Concert Series

June 24, 2022

Join us in downtown Ellsworth on July 8th from 7:00 – 9:00 pm for a live music event in the Franklin Street Parklet. This FREE outdoor concert will feature music by Maine-grown folk group, GoldenOak, with an opening set by local singer-songwriter, Caroline Cotter.

This event is brought to you by the WERU Summer Concert Series in partnership with Artsworth, Heart of Ellsworth, Loaves & Fishes and will take place in the Franklin Street Parklet, 124 Main Street, between Elizabeth’s and Sugar Mags Central in downtown Ellsworth.

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WERU Summer Concert Series!

WERU Summer Concert Series!

June 23, 2022

Mark your calendar for WERU’s Summer Concert Series featuring Maine musical talents in different locations around the state! These performances are funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission and are supported by some wonderful partner organizations. Sponsorship support comes from Herbal Revolution, GO Logic, 44 North Coffee, and Barncastle. Follow the links below for info on the artists. Let’s get together!

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Healthy Options: Yearly Update on Ticks, Lyme, and Tick-borne Illnesses

Healthy Options: Yearly Update on Ticks, Lyme, and Tick-borne Illnesses

June 22, 2022

Ticks are out and biting, so it’s time for our yearly update on ticks, Lyme Disease, and other tick-borne illnesses, with tick and Lyme specialist, Dr. Beatrice Szantyr. If you go outside at all, tick and Lyme awareness and prevention is a must! Click here to listen to this episode of Healthy Options, hosted by Rhonda Feiman.

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Maine: The Way Life Could Be

Maine: The Way Life Could Be

June 21, 2022

In previous programs in this series, we looked at some of the possible effects of climate change on the way life could be in Maine in the not too distant future.  On May’s program, we look at some forces already at work today – climate change as well as the recent rediscovery of so-called “forever chemicals” in Maine soil and water – and what these forces may mean for people who grow food, both as professional farmers and as backyard gardeners.

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Volunteer Profiles: Day Dream Nation

Volunteer Profiles: Day Dream Nation

June 20, 2022

Day Dream Nation, Saturday evenings 6:00-8:00, is a lively program featuring many genres presented by three fine DJs: Kristie, Zoe and Jack Fonchezzz. Click read more to meet them!

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Newly Updated Smartphone App!

Newly Updated Smartphone App!

June 19, 2022

“I wander around the coast a lot—from Kittery to Eastport… No matter where my adventures take me on the coast of Maine, I can count on the WERU app to access my favorite shows—live and on-demand!” – Jack Sullivan

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FCC Regulatory Documents

October 21, 2019

The following links document WERU compliance with FCC Regulations:

  • Salt Pond Community Broadcasting 2021 EEO Public File Report
  • Public Inspection File

For assistance accessing our FCC Public Inspection File, persons with disabilities or special needs may contact Matt Murphy ([email protected]), WERU General Manager.

Also, meetings of the WERU Board of Directors take place on the third Monday of each month at 4:00 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. Board meetings currently are conducted virtually/online. For more information on how to attend please call 469-6600 or email [email protected].

Dawnland Acknowledgement

January 19, 2019

WERU Community Radio acknowledges that the 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.

Featured Artist of the Week

“Morning Maine” Featured Artist of the Week:  ROGER SALLOOM

“Morning Maine” Featured Artist of the Week: ROGER SALLOOM

Roger Salloom is our “Featured Artist of the Week”!  Tune in each morning (Monday through Friday) at 7:45 AM (EDT) to hear our volunteer disc jockey play at least one cut from his album and mention his FREE SoundCheck performance on Friday, July 1st from 7:30 – 8:30 PM at the Camden Opera House (29 Elm Street).

 

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Top Albums of the Week

Top Albums 6/21/2022

1 BART MOORE Graveyards, Wind And War
2 ENVY OF NONE Envy Of None
3 KURT VILE (watch my moves)

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