Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger About the host: Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land trust for 23 years, and met a wonderful partner whom Larry has loved for over 40 years. Larry has produced Outside the Box features on WERU since 2007 and continues to look for unique ways of seeing almost any problem or situation.

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Host: Galen Koch Production Support and Advising: Natalie Springuel Theme Music: Paul Anderson – A Following Sea All other music from Cueshop.com Coastal Conversations: Conversations with people who live, work, and play on the Maine coast. Imagine a construction crew that can’t move, takes no lunch break, and still somehow gets the job done. Meet the oyster. Oysters are native to Maine, and throughout history ranging from 30,000 years ago to present day, they’ve had unique experiences on our coast. We used to have huge, complex living ecosystems known as oyster reefs that inhabited our coast, providing water quality benefits, habitat for a wide variety of marine organisms, and coastal erosion mitigation. For the last thousand years, those benefits from wild populations of oysters have been absent, but with the help of the Basin Oyster Project, the coastal ecology of Maine is slowly being brought back to what it once was thousands of years ago. This is Keegan Claunch, assistant producer for Coastal Conversations and student at College of the Atlantic. Coastal Conversations is supported by Maine Sea Grant in partnership with the Schoodic Institute and The First Coast. Guest/s: Sarah Risley – PhD Graduate from UMaine Sarah Zuidema – Bar Harbor Oyster Company Facilities Manager, Marine Biologist Dot Kelly – Basin Oyster Project participant, Phippsburg Conservation Commission member FMI: The Basin Oyster Project – northeastsaltwater.com/basin-oyster-project Bar harbor Oyster Company – www.barharboroysterco.com/ About the hosts: Natalie Springuel has hosted Coastal Conversation’s since 2015, with support from the University of Maine Sea Grant where she has served as a marine extension associate for 20 years. In 2019, Springuel received an award for Public Affairs programming from the Maine Association of Broadcasters for the Coastal Conversations show called “Portland’s Working Waterfront.” Springuel is passionate about translating science, sharing stories, and offering a platform for multiple voices to weigh in on complex coastal and ocean issues. She has recently enrolled in audio production training at Maine Media Workshop to dive deeper into making great community radio.

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Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows issues statement regarding lawsuit filed by coalition of states regarding USPS anti-mail voting rule Indivisible Bangor says there have been reports of ICE in Bangor in recent days. They recommend Maine Immigrant Defense Resource Hub We’ve received a report and photos of flock cameras in the Unity, Maine area. This report describes how an add on for the cameras gives them the capacity to pick up devices in passing vehicles: Reporting on Leonardo SignalTrace, an add-on for flock cameras, by Rivo Raphaël Chreçant, a sociologist and web journalist at Cambridge Analytical Privacy Watch Colby College environmental science professor Gail Carlson will speak on Human Health and the Climate Crisis, at the Blue Hill Library on Thursday, September 3rd from 4:30-6:00 PM The Eastern Maine Labor Council will hold their 23rd Annual Labor Day Celebration at the Solidarity Center in Brewer with Special Guest AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

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Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine DEP Initiates Legal Action Against Mallinckrodt US LLC to Address Cleanup Failures at Orrington Site Greenfield Penobscot Estuary Remediation Trust, LLC, the court-approved Trustee of Penobscot Estuary Mercury Remediation Trust is testing capping in the river Those interested can sign up for email updates on their website. They also have a hotline with recorded updates: (207) 352-3122 Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

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Host/Producer: Amy Browne Native Gardens of Blue Hill’s Native Fall Plant sale, Saturday, September 12th, 9-noon Sneak preview of the plants online on August 27th, 7-8:15pm Email [email protected] for more information or to register for the link Maine Data Center Advisory Council public listening sessions (via zoom) today from 1-2:30pm, and September1st from 5-7pm Heart of Ellsworth hosts the Maine Outdoor Film Festival Selects Tour tonight from 6 to 9 p.m, at Knowlton Park, 160 State Street Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

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Host: Donna Loring Other credits: Technical assistance for the show was provided by Joel Mann of WERU, and Jessica Lockhart. Music by Ralph Richter, a track called little eagles from his CD Dream Walk. Wabanaki Windows is a monthly show featuring topics of interest from a Wabanaki perspective. This month: American Revolution, the treatment of Wabanaki after the Revolution. Guest/s:  Prof Harald Prins, Emertus at Kansas State University, PhD. Darren Ranco, a member of the Penobscot Nation and Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Native American Studies at the University of Maine. Osihkiyol Crofton-Macdonald, Ambassador for the Maliseet Nation. About the host: Donna M Loring is a Penobscot Indian Nation Tribal Elder, and former Council Member. She represented the Penobscot Nation in the State Legislature for over a decade. She is a former Senior Advisor on Tribal Affairs to Governor Mills. She is the author of “In The Shadow of The Eagle A Tribal Representative In Maine”. Donna has an Annual lecture series in her name at the University of New England that addresses Social Justice and Human Rights issues. In 2017 She received an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Humane Letters from the University of Maine Orono and was given the Alumni Service Award. It is the most prestigious recognition given by the University of Maine Alumni Association. It is presented Annually to a University of Maine graduate whose life’s work is marked by outstanding achievements in professional, business, civic and/or Public service areas. Donna received a second Honorary Doctorate from Thomas College in May of 2022.

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Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger About the host: Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land trust for 23 years, and met a wonderful partner whom Larry has loved for over 40 years. Larry has produced Outside the Box features on WERU since 2007 and continues to look for unique ways of seeing almost any problem or situation.

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Host/Producer: Amy Browne Thursday afternoon, Friends of Sears Island presents A Sears Island Herb walk, exploring wild and nourishing medicinal plants, with Diana Chapin and Kerri Vacher, from 3-5pm No Sleep ’Til Brooklin: Pack Dodge and the Haven Colony, 1900–1930 Friends of Camden Hills State Park “You Teach the Machines” AI Literacy Workshop with author Jeff Pennington, Wednesday at the Somesville Library Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

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Host/Producer: Amy Browne Mike Hurley and a team of volunteers are offering free pontoon boat rides in Belfast Harbor this coming weekend, for people with disabilities. FMI contact Mike Hurley at mike(at)pilut.com or 207-338-1975 Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

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Host: Glen Mittelhauser Producers: Glen Mittelhauser and Daaby Tingle Continuing a botanical inventory of Little Spruce Island off the coast of Downeast Maine, Glen explains why each island supports a unique plant community shaped by its history and environment. He reflects on the importance of documenting these remote floras today to provide the baseline data needed to understand ecological change in the future. More information about Maine Natural History Observatory can be found on our website at mainenaturalhistory.org/. About the hosts: Glen Mittelhauser founded Maine Natural History Observatory (MNHO) in 2003 to fill the need for an organization that specializes in collecting, interpreting, and maintaining datasets for understanding changes in Maine’s plant and wildlife populations.  Glen received his Bachelor’s in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic in 1989 with a focus in the biological sciences and received his Master of Science degree in Zoology (with a focus on ornithology and statistics) from the University of Maine in 2000. Glen was the Managing Editor for Northeastern Naturalist and Southeastern Naturalist for 18 years and has served as external graduate faculty for 3 graduate student committees at the University of Maine.  Glen currently serves on the Baxter State Park Research Committee. Logan Parker is an Ecologist residing in Waldo County, Maine. Logan started the Maine Nightjar Monitoring Project in 2017 and brought the project (and his passion for bird conservation) to MNHO when he joined the team in 2018. Logan is heavily involved in the ongoing Maine Bird Atlas where he both coordinates and participates in the project’s special species surveys. When “off the clock”, Logan enjoys birding, writing, gardening, and working alongside his wife, Hallee, on their off-grid home in the Maine woods. Logan is also a wildlife photographer and shares photos and field notes through his project, Here In The Wild.

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