However long Dr. Heidi O'Leary, the newly minted PHD, winds up serving as SAD-75 superintendent, it is unlikely that she will ever address an issue as fundamentally important as school safety in an era of school gunfire. With that top of mind, Heidi is getting...
With frustration, and in some cases downright anger mounting across Maine, after the legislature's failure to take a vote on the proposed "red flag law", Brunswick State Representative Dan Ankeles joins the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, to talk about that and more. A red flag law...
Brunswick Democratic State Representative Dan Ankeles is declining comment on the newly reached agreement in Augusta on several key supplemental budget items, including the restoration of pension tax breaks for retirees and an increase in pay for educational technicians. Noting the fragility of this deal, Ankeles...
Steve is a long-serving town councilor who recently became the land trust's executive director. 25 acres at 262 Pleasant Hill Road are being purchased for $2 million. The property includes an historic barn and 25 acres on land once known as Dionne Farm. Steve also...
Jackie's monthly stop at the Buzz, which this month could be hardly more varied. It began with Jackie's solar eclipse story, which parallels the experience of many a Mainer on Monday, and then we asked Jackie about some continuing criticism of her recently announced policy...
From Rob Burgess, President, Southern Maine Astronomers, on today's WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz. If you missed it on the radio you may hear it here. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Burgess-eclilpse.mp3"][/audio]...
Sometimes we get attention not because we are already famous or because of our position in this life, but simply for saying a few words that happen to resonate with a significant number of people at a particular moment in time. And so it goes with...
It was a year ago today--March 29,2024--that Evan Gershkovich a Bowdoin College grad from the Class of 2014 was simply doing his job as a Moscow reporter for the Wall Street Journal when he suddenly found himself "detained" by Russian authorities. A year later, he...
The attorney general announces the filing of a civil rights complaint in Superior Court in Portland against 49-year-old William Deary and his 18-year-old son Hayden, both of Harpswell. The complaint alleges that in early January, the Dearys vandalized road signs and roadways in Harpswell,...
On today's WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz we were joined by Suzanne Watson, executive director at Meetinghouse Arts on Main Street in Freeport and by Brian Braley, senior manager at Spindleworks, the art center in Brunswick populated by developmentally disabled artists--these two organizations are combining for...