Four-term Brunswick state representative Mattie Daughtry and former longtime senator Stan Gerzofsky are competing for the Democratic nomination for the Maine Senate seat in the 29th district, which includes Brunswick, Harpswell, Freeport, Pownal and North Yarmouth. The primary election is Tuesday. They squared off on Saturday in...
The three women in a quite friendly race to replace four-term state representative Mattie Daughtry in Brunswick, were interviewed one-on-one on WCME. If you missed it you may hear it here. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ElectionGuide1.mp3"][/audio]...
The new chief in his first major interview since assuming his new duties in Brunswick--at a transitional moment for American police officers. If you missed any part of it, hear it here. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Stewart-7-10.mp3"][/audio]...
Luka Baskett, a U-Maine-Farmington student who spent four years at Brunswick High School, and who graduated in 2018, has written a letter calling for an investigation of sexual violence at Brunswick High School. And the new superintendent is listening. Luka talked about her concerns on the Friday...
Mark is a month away from retirement after missing out on the chief's job--which went to former Cumberland County Sheriff's patrol commander Scott Stewart. And he has a lot to say about the state of policing in general and in Brunswick in particular. If you missed it...
On the Monday June 8 WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, two men who come from very different places in this life, but who have come to know and respect one another over the past week. A relationship formed in the aftermath of the confrontational Black Lives...
Isabella Banks, often known as Izzy, is the president of the class of 2020 at Brunswick High School--the one that because of a global pandemic, will have only a limited graduation in June. Izzy has been class president throughout her four years at Brunswick High. She's...
Jim Bleikamp here. If you haven't missed my interview with Curt Dale Clark, artistic director of Maine State Music Theater, talking about the end of a season that never began, you may hear it here. Curt begins with a notation that it was not a decision easily...
Berry talks about his letter to BIW CEO Dirk Lesko, seeking a temporary shutdown at the shipyard in Bath, and also lodges some new complaints against Central Maine Power, which he seeks to replace with a consumer-owned utility. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Berry-BIW-CMP.mp3"][/audio]...
On Tuesday, March 24, we spent an hour with Dr. Carl Demars of Mid Coast Palliative Care at Midcoast Hospital on the subject we never stop thinking about--coronavirus. We tried to ask him every question that we could imagine that YOU might ask. If you missed...