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After a weekend statement from Defense Secretary Ash Carter that the Iraqi Army is failing to fight ISIS forces, Senator Angus King's view of the situation in a brief interview with WCME's Jim Bleikamp at today's Memorial Day observance at the Brunswick mall. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Senator-Angus-King-on-Iraq.mp3"][/audio]...

[audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Ethel-Wilkerson-Clear-Cutting-in-Freeport.mp3"][/audio] Ethel Wilkerson is an environmental scientist, who also happens to be one of numerous residents of the Elm Street neighborhood in Freeport frustrated by the Maine Department of Transportation's clear-cutting of trees, which had served as a buffer against noise from nearby I-295. Ethel...

Eric Simonds is an independent Brunswick-based certified financial planner working only for his clients--not for any company engaged in the sale of various financial products. Beginning this weekend, he's also the host of the WCME Midcoast Money Memo--Saturday's at 11:05AM. Today Eric talked with Jim Bleikamp on...

It's a relatively short but wide-ranging interview with Senator Stan, covering recent legislative developments on Amtrak idling in Brunswick, a bill that would lift the permit requirement for the carrying of concealed weapons, and voter-identification legislation. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Gerzofsky-May-6-2015.mp3"][/audio]...

Max is a young singer/songwriter on the move who grew up in Bath, and is now getting rave reviews for his blues-influenced tunes. Tonight at Chocolate Church in Bath a CD release party and performance of songs from the new album "Up Til Now." Max paid...

Stacy Frizzle is the executive director of People Plus, the expansive Brunswick organization providing activities aimed at older Midcoast residents, however many of these programs are also of broad-based general interest. Stacy also runs the Brunswick teen center, and appears regularly on Monday's on WCME's...

Paula is a singer-songwriter from the north shore of Massachusetts with a wide-ranging voice seemingly spanning 100 octaves. Or more. Perhaps that's an exaggeration. But only a little. She won a Grammy in 1997 as best new artist. She's known for songs such as "Where...

Jim Bleikamp here. Ok, no one is really yet engaged in battle over the budget in Brunswick. But putting a budget together in financially-challenged Brunswick is an ordeal that already has the feel of battle. Sorry that I'm later than planned in posting this--it's been a...