Weru 89.9 Fm Blue Hill, Maine Local News And Public Affairs Archives

Producer/Hosts: Ron Beard and Liz Graves College of the Atlantic provides help with production. Engineering by Joel Mann of WERU Community Radio. Theme music for Talk of the Towns Theme is a medley from Coronach, on a Balnain House Highland Music recording. Talk of the Towns: Local Community concerns and opportunities This month: What is a town meeting in Maine? What decisions are made at town meetings? Who moderates town meetings and how are they elected? What is the town meeting warrant and how is the warrant created? Guest/s: Merton Brown, Kennebunk Town Clerk Harvey Kelley, former Town Meeting Moderator Ethan Andrews, Bangor Daily News FMI: www.memun.org/Media-Publications/Town-Meeting- About the hosts: Ron Beard is producer and host of Talk of the Towns, which first aired on WERU in 1993 as part of his community building work as an Extension professor with University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Sea Grant. He took all the journalism courses he could fit in while an undergraduate student in wildlife