WERU Community Radio

WERU Community Radio

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

Serving Midcoast,
Downeast & Central Maine
A Voice of Many Voices

Station News

Community Wellness Watch – Food Insecurity

Community Wellness Watch – Food Insecurity

Community Wellness Watch is a public health project of WERU that has included a series of brief recorded announcements as well as hour-long programs produced and hosted by WERU intern Emma Weiss. The final edition featured a conversation with local service providers who work in the field of food security issues, and was on the radio on November 30.

Thank you to the Maine Community Foundation for financially supporting this project. Thanks as well to Shane Weiss, designer of the  CWW logo. And of course, many thanks to Emma Weiss for her outstanding work over the past eight months!

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Dawnland Signals: Truth-telling and Thanksgiving

Dawnland Signals: Truth-telling and Thanksgiving

What if you lived when the English colonists and the Wamponoag people shared a feast at Plimoth? What would you have worn? What would you have eaten? What is the true story of the feast that we now know as the first Thanksgiving and how did it become a national holiday? Listen to the most recent edition of Dawnland Signals to find out.
Join co-hosts Maria Girouard and Esther Anne when they talk with Chris Newell, Passamaquoddy, to get answers to these questions and more. During this holiday special, Chris will discuss and read excerpts from his newly released Scholastic children’s book If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving. We hope you’ll join us for truth-telling with your family. This program aired originally on November 25.
Dawnland Signals highlights indigenous topics not immediately represented in mainstream media and is meant to share, inspire, and inform.
Politics and Religion on the Democracy Forum

Politics and Religion on the Democracy Forum

“There is a difference between exercising religious beliefs and imposing them on others. Our Constitution fiercely protects the former and expressly prohibits the latter.”  ― Joseph Kennedy III, former Congressman from Massachusetts

On the November 19 edition of the Democracy Forum, host Ann Luther and her guests talked about politics and religion. What is the constitutional foundation of the separation of church and state? Is freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights? How did the doctrine emerge and develop from the prohibition on the establishment of religion? How is the interpretation and practice affecting modern politics? What is the intersection of political activism and religious groups, now and in our history?

If you missed the program on the air, listen to it now on our public affairs archive. Democracy Forum is produced by the League of Women Voters of Maine in partnership with WERU.

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WERU Board Meeting Executive Session

The WERU Board of Directors meeting that took place on November 15, 2021 included a closed executive session. The reason was that the Board discussed a personnel matter of a confidential nature. – Matt Murphy, General Manager

FCC Regulatory Documents

The following links document WERU compliance with FCC Regulations:

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

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: KAT EDMONSON

“Morning Maine” Featured Artist of the Week: KAT EDMONSON

Kat Edmonson 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 a cut from her album and then give away a FREE pair of guest list passes to her local appearance at The Strand Theatre (345 Main Street in Rockland) on Saturday, December 4th at 7:30 PM.

DJ Denis will interview her live via telephone at 8:30 AM on Friday, December 3rd.

Recent Archives

Daydream Nation – December 4, 2021

High on a Mountain – December 4, 2021

At The Hop – December 4, 2021

Medium Rare – December 4, 2021

Reggae Reprieve – December 4, 2021

Soundings – December 4, 2021

Radio Ecoshock – December 4, 2021

Family Radio Hour – December 4, 2021

Flashpoints – December 4, 2021

Writer's Voice – December 4, 2021

Democracy Now! Headlines

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

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Office: (207) 469-6600
Studio: (207) 469-0500
Email: [email protected]

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