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Producer/Hosts: Ron Beard and Liz Graves 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: – Many towns, business owners and home owners think about and plan for the future in some way… how has the issue of climate sharpened focus on the need to plan for and adapt to sea level rise and warming? – What does “climate resilience” look like from each of yo...

Producer/Hosts: Ron Beard and Liz Graves Theme music for Talk of the Towns Theme music for Talk of the Towns is a medley from Coronach, on a Balnain House Highland Music recording. Talk of the Towns: Local Community concerns and opportunities This month: Profiles of three community music organizations: Bagaduce Music, Ellsworth Community Music Institute, and Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine. – Signature programs of each organization? How has each organization evolved? – Make up of “fa...

Producer/Hosts: Ron Beard and Liz Graves Theme music for Talk of the Towns Theme music for Talk of the Towns 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 the history and mission of Island Readers and Writers (IRW)? Offer some examples of how authors have connected with student readers, using their books to inspire student readers to become writers as well. Where does reading and writing f...

Producer/Hosts: Ron Beard and Liz Graves Theme music for Talk of the Towns Theme music for Talk of the Towns is a medley from Coronach, on a Balnain House Highland Music recording. Talk of the Towns: Local Community concerns and opportunities This month: Overview of College of the Atlantic’s Summer Institute, in collaboration with the National Geographic Society Reflections on what “exploration” means in the 21st century Preview of sessions led by Nadia Rosenthal on the science of viruses ...

Producer/Hosts: Ron Beard and Liz Graves Theme music for Talk of the Towns Theme music for Talk of the Towns is a medley from Coronach, on a Balnain House Highland Music recording. Talk of the Towns: Local Community concerns and opportunities This month: Advocacy and Non-violent Direct Action: A conversation with George Lakey and Sue Inches. How do we make change in the face of policies that seem wrong, either because they harm people or the earth? Some situations call for building relationships...

Live & local call-in on civic issues. Happens on the third Friday of every month from 10 – 11 AM.

The Halifax Mooseheads will honour timekeeper Ron Beard in a pre-game ceremony tonight at Scotiabank Centre. Beard kept the time for more than 5,000 games in the arena, including more than 1,000 Mooseheads' games.

Michael Socolow, media historian and associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, was a guest on the WERU 89.9 show “Talk of the Towns”, during which he and producer and host Ron Beard talked about the changing media landscape in Maine and elsewhere.

The town is working with the National Park Service and scientists at College of the Atlantic and Schoodic Institute to assess conditions in the inner harbor.

The Mumfords had been friends of the Beards but lost contact long ago. Al, a carpenter, said he met English-born Ron, a painter, on a building site in Bewbush, Crawley, England, in 1979. “Ron had a very long face; he was miserable he was not long back from New Zealand and wanted to return there.” Al had spent time in New Zealand also where he had met and married Jenny. With their connection to New Zealand the two men and their wives struck up a friendship. For a year they socialised t...