Host/Producer: Amy Browne The Annual Festival of Lights Parade in Bangor FMI: www.bangorrotary.org Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Winter Programming, CAMPS – Community Artist and Maker Program Series –Holiday Open House FMI: www.haystack-mtn.org Making Victorian-inspired ornaments with the Ellsworth Historical Society, at the Chamberlain House at Ellsworth Falls FMI: www.ellsworthhistory.org/events Nature-Friendly Ornament Making Workshop with the Wilson Museum, in collaboration with the Castine Arts Association, and Castine Arts Association’s fifth annual Holiday Tree Trail FMI: www.wilsonmuseum.org/calendar & www.castinearts.org 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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