WERU Community Radio

The Common Ground Country Fair will take place on September 20^th through the 22^nd, at the MOFGA fairgrounds in Unity, and WERU Community Radio will certainly be there! We’ll have an outreach booth adjacent to the Common, where you can visit with our volunteers and staff, learn about the radio station, and buy WERU T-shirts and hats. We’ll even gladly accept donations if you’d like to make one!

In addition, we’ll broadcast the keynote speeches live, over the airwaves and internet, each day from 11 to 12. The talk titles are as follows: Landscapes Lost on Friday; What if We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures on Saturday; and Farming in the Face of Climate Change on Sunday.

Join WERU at the Common Ground Country Fair – in-person, on the air, and online – live. All thanks to your support!

WERU’s One Small Step Project (undertaken in partnership with StoryCorps) has been recognized by the Maine Association of Broadcasters for excellence, and at the annual MAB Awards Gala on October 26, we will receive a News & Creative Award in the category of radio feature. Congratulations to us, especially our facilitators and producers Michele Christle and Chris Battaglia!

More good news: WERU has been accepted by StoryCorps as an alumni hub station for another round of One Small Step this fall! More information is available by emailing onesmallstep@weru.org, as well as at https://weru.org/one-small-step-2024.

Back in June 2023, we put out a call. We were looking for people who were willing to come together for an hour-long facilitated conversation with a stranger with different viewpoints, during which they would be invited to get to know each other as people, through listening to each other’s stories. As you can imagine, the response was mixed. But by the end of 2023, over a hundred people had signed up to participate…

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The International Maritime Film Festival returns to Bucksport’s Alamo Theatre on September 26-28, and on Friday, September 27, WERU, Bucksport’s Wednesday on Main, and the World Ocean Observatory, will present a concert of traditional maritime music with The Oystermen, featuring Carter Newell on fiddle and percussion, and Smokey McKeen on accordion and guitar and vocals. The evening will include special guest Kate McCann, performing shanties and other maritime songs. Doors open at 6:30pm and the music starts at 7:00pm. $10 suggested donation gladly accepted at the door. It’s an evening of great maritime musicMajor support for the concert and festival comes from Seaboard Federal Credit Union in Bucksport.

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WERU’s own summer intern Cecilia Ohanian took over NWRH’s August show, featuring two conversations with young Maine community members: Averi Varney, the Executive Director of the Hancock County Planning Commission, and Jack Sullivan, photographer and multimedia storyteller for the Island Institute.

NextWave Radio Hour is a program focused on and featuring folks around their 20s and 30s from all across Maine. In this program, regular host Pepin Mittelhauser talks with young people who trailblaze their own paths in our modern political, economic, and social climate, and provide unique perspectives and stories of life from the next generation working to create the future they hope to see.

Listen to the archives of this show here, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Creative Maine, hosted by Adina Salmansohn, is a monthly show exploring Maine‘s culture, art and crafts that enrich our lives and bring us joy!

You can listen to the three already aired full episodes by going to the WERU Archives here!