Host/Producer: Amy Browne Penobscot Bay Waterkeeper invites you to join them tomorrow, Tuesday, September 23 at 5:30 PM for a Zoom presentation to discuss the natural wonders of the 54-acre Little River property and efforts to permanently conserve this special land in Belfast. The next No Kings! national day of protest is coming up on Saturday, October 18th, and a location has been announced in Bangor The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Board of Pesticides Control, in partnership with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, reminds Maine home and family farm owners that pre-registration is required by Friday, September 26, 2025 to participate in their free, one-day obsolete pesticide collection events taking place in October in Presque Isle, Bangor, Augusta, and Portland. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021. Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

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