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!

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Wabanaki Windows Wins Award!

Wabanaki Windows Wins Award!

May 25, 2025

WERU is thrilled to announce that Wabanaki Windows and host Donna Loring have received a 2025 Hometown Media Award in the category of racial justice and civil rights, presented by the Alliance for Community Media Foundation! Wabanaki Windows airs on WERU on the 4th Tuesday of every month from 4 to 5 pm, and also airs on WMPG Community Radio in Portland. Congratulations, Donna, on this recognition and thank you for your many years of excellent programming! “Read more” to see the full press release.

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Vote for WERU as the Best Radio Station in Maine!

Vote for WERU as the Best Radio Station in Maine!

May 21, 2025

WERU has once again been nominated for a Down East Best of Maine award, for Best Radio Station in Maine! Now it’s up to us to get out the vote! Voting runs through June 12th and the resulting winners will be published in the September issue of Down East magazine and online. Vote here. And thanks!

WERU Benefit Concert featuring Casey Neill – June 14 at Barncastle in Blue Hill

WERU Benefit Concert featuring Casey Neill – June 14 at Barncastle in Blue Hill

May 20, 2025

Join us for a WERU benefit concert on Saturday, June 14 with critically acclaimed indie folk singer-songwriter Casey Neill, at Barncastle in Blue Hill!

Doors open at 6:30pm to access the bar and seating, and the show begins at 7:00pm. Space is limited, so get your tickets now by clicking here!

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Listen In-person to Taproom Tales

Listen In-person to Taproom Tales

May 20, 2025

Love a good story? Love science? Then you will likely love Taproom Tales, at Fogtown Brewing on Tuesday, June 11th from 6:00-7:30PM. Hear local storytellers and neighbors share personal, real-life stories about how science shows up in the most unexpected ways. You may even consider sharing a story of your own! Fogtown Brewing is located at 25 Pine Street, Ellsworth. This event is presented by Fogtown Brewing, MDI Biological Laboratory, and WERU Community Radio.

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Americans Who Tell the Truth: Rivera Sun

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Rivera Sun

April 17, 2025

Since 2002, Maine artist Robert Shetterly and Americans Who Tell the Truth have created and presented 280 portraits of Americans they describe as “Models of Courageous Citizenship.” Shetterly’s most recent portrait subject is Rivera Sun, activist and award-winning author of The Dandelion Insurrection and many other books, whose portrait was unveiled at the Bay School in Blue Hill on May 4. She was introduced by her dear friend and previous portrait subject, renowned activist, lawyer, and Penobscot Nation member Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset. You can listen to Rivera Sun’s inspiring talk that aired on WERU on Tuesday, May 13, 5-5:30pm here, and audio from the entire unveiling event here.

Democracy Forum: Constitutional Crisis – Is Our Government Making Us Sick?

Democracy Forum: Constitutional Crisis – Is Our Government Making Us Sick?

April 10, 2025

The effects of the federal administration’s policies on health and science research and delivery nationally and here in Maine.

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!

Public Affairs Program: We Are Queer

Public Affairs Program: We Are Queer

December 1, 2024

We Are Queer, hosted by Olivia Paruk, is a monthly half hour show discussing being LGBTQ+ in Maine and beyond! We Are Queer, highlights the touching experiences from Maine’s diverse LGBTQ+ community that builds empathy and understanding in our greater community. If you have feedback for the show or want to get in touch email info@weru.org with WERQ in the subject line.

Episode 1 – Pepin: Discovery of Self
Episode 2 – Father Douglas: God Does Not Create Junk
Episode 3 – Bo Dennis: Finding Queer Joy Through Farming
Episode 4 – OutMaine: Looking Out for Our Queer Children
Episode 5 – Lori: Art Can Change Hearts and Minds
Episode 6 – Benjamin: Live and Let Live
Episode 7 – Zoe: The Intersection of Science and Queerness
Episode 8 – Olivia: Perspective on Queerness

You can also listen to all the episodes wherever you get podcasts!

Check out WERU’s App!

Check out WERU’s App!

April 14, 2023

Have you heard about the WERU mobile phone app? Available on iOS and Android! We’re always trying to improve this service, and two new features under the menu icon are pretty cool. One is called “station news,” which you can select to get articles about the latest goings on at WERU. The other is labelled “your voice,” which gives you the ability to record a station identification or tell us why you listen to WERU, both of which could be broadcast on the station. So, if you want to add your voice to the “Voice of Many Voices,” use this feature and we’ll give it a listen, and you never know, you might hear yourself over the airwaves or on the internet. That’s the every-improving WERU app for your phone or other mobile device, available for free at your favorite app store. Check it out!

Featured Artist of the Week

“Morning Maine” Featured Artist of the Week:  10,000 MANIACS

“Morning Maine” Featured Artist of the Week: 10,000 MANIACS

10,000 Maniacs are our “Featured Artists 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 the group and then give you a chance to win a FREE pair of guest list passes to see them perform live on Friday, May 30th at 8 PM (Waterville Opera House at One Common Street)! 

 

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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  • Casey Neill – June 14

    Blue Hill – WERU benefit concert on Saturday, June 14 with critically acclaimed indie folk singer-songwriter Casey Neill, at Barncastle in Blue Hill. Tickets  

Top Albums of the Week

Top Albums 5/27/2025

1 ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION Arcadia

2 I’M WITH HER Wild And Clear And Blue
3 VALERIE JUNE Owls, Omens And Oracles

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  • 2023 EEO Report
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For assistance accessing our FCC Public Inspection File, persons with disabilities or special needs may contact Matt Murphy (matt@weru.org), WERU General Manager.

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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