The chief covered a number of topics in his monthly visit to The Buzz, and notably said that he endorses Cumberland County District Attorney Jackie Sartoris' call for a state law mandating safekeeping of firearms in homes, but questions whether such a bill could pass...
Jim Bleikamp here. The major and the mundane. My chat with Jackie began with her breaking story relating to a raccoon invasion of her Brunswick household--and later a plea for a law in Maine requiring the safe storage of firearms. If you missed it you can hear it...
Brunswick School Superintendent Phil Potenziano on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz reflecting on the designation of Brunswick High School as the seventh-best high school in Maine, in the new rankings of the nation's high schools from U-S News and World Report Magazine. You can hear the...
Marc, who is a 26-year veteran of the CIA talks a little about his beloved Boston Red Sox who he has been watching battle the Nationals in D.C.. and talks quite a bit about the incarceration of Evan Gershkovich, the 2014 Bowdoin College graduate and...
Dan makes news by telling us that he is leaving the council a year before the expirationof his current term, and will devote himself entirely to his position as a Brunswick state representative in Augusta. He also further comments on the assessment and tax controversy currently...
From WCME News: The Brunswick Town Council is calling a special meeting next Thursday evening at 6:30 to take action in response to a highly critical public reaction to its recent property valuation "adjustment", which resulted in a large number of residential assessment increases and estimates...
Contrary to some expectations, the arrival of 60 more asylum-seeking families in Brunswick this summer and fall may not have substantial impact on the school system. On the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, School Superintendent Phil Potenziano also indicated that he's still wating for some of the...
She had always lived here--in Brunswick--since the day of her birth. But she had never been politically active. So in some ways, it seemed that Kathy came out of nowhere in 2014 when she won an at-large seat on the Brunswick town council by an impressively...
Jim Bleikamp here. Truly a pleasure to chat about the often fun but sometimes harrowing experience of bartending with a veteran of this craft, Amber Ambrose, who has been behind the bar at several Midcoast establishments in recent years, and currently serves up the suds...
It was both fun and quite educational on today's WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, as we heard from Jeremy Cluchy, public affairs director of the Nature Conservancy in Brunswick, on the Maine Department of Transportation's proposal for the 26-mile Merrymeeting Trail, connecting Topsham, Bowdoinham, Richmond, and...