Host/Producer: Amy Browne Indivisible Bangor‘s weekly No Kings vigil is today (and every Tuesday) from 11 am – 1pm at the Federal Building on Harlow Street, where Susan Collins’ has her Bangor office. Organizers say “Drop in any time between 11 am and 1pm. Bring signs, bring flags, bring your voices for chants and songs” Dr Nirav Shah, former Maine CDC director- now running for Governor, will have a Town Hall at the Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow Street in Bangor later today. The event will double as a food drive for local food pantries. The town Hall begins at 6:00 PM (doors open at 5:30 PM) Click here for more information and to register or email kira@shahformaine.com Ugly Sweater Day tomorrow in Belfast 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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