Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Governor Janet Mills’ statement on the passing of Penobscot tribal elder & WWII hero Charles Norman Shay this week. Indivisible calls for a boycott of Spotify. Demands include that they stop running ICE recruitment ads. A quick recap of the weekend events we’ve covered this week on Around Town (see archives for previous days fmi and links) a quick recap of the weekend events we’ve mentioned this week on AT: Tomorrow/Saturday, 12/6/2 Bangor’s annual Festival of Lights Parade, 4:30 PM in downtown Bangor 45th Annual Downtown Ellsworth Christmas Parade of Lights will kick-off at 4:00pm, followed by the tree lighting Annual Northeast Harbor Christmas Festival , 8:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m, Main Street, Northeast Harbor and the Northeast Harbor Marina All weekend The Island Arts Association’s 50th Annual Holiday Craft Fair starts today from 10:00 am-5:00 pm; and continues on Saturday & Sunday 9:00 am-4:00 pm, at the Atlantic Oceanside on Eden Street in Bar Harbor Sunday The 5th annual Festival of the Trees, Sunday, 12/7 from 2-5pm at Rural Hall on Rt. 172 in East Surry. 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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