Every Saturday at Noon and 5PM, WCME electronically brings together Governor LePage and a political adversary--John Richardson, a former Democratic speaker of the Maine House and former Brunswick town councilor. Today, since there was no weekly message from the governor, John Richardson flew solo and issued...
If you missed Peter--just appointed by the city council to take over for the departing Bill Giroux--hear him now. [audio mp3="https://radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Owen-going-forward.mp3"][/audio]...
At WCME, we call it what it REALLY is--not a SHUTDOWN--because it isn't--not with the state police still on the job--where we want them--and not as long as the state parks are open--which they are this holiday weekend. Two very different views of what's going on....
Now the actual voices are heard. A new nationally-distributed podcast from the San Francisco-based Center for Investigative Reporting contains never-previously-heard deposition testimony from the recently settled lawsuit in Brunswick in which former junior high school student Chaz Wing charged that he had been bullied and...
In Brunswick and Topsham, the search continues on the Androscoggin River for a missing boater--a man whose name has not been released. The search began Friday evening without success, as the Maine Marine Patrol, utilizing a helicopter, spotlights and night vision technology searched the water...
Breaking from WCME News 9: After a long season of detour and delay that began in October, the Bath viaduct is now due to open next week, a full month ahead of schedule. A statement from the state transportation department says contractor Reed and Reed has...
From WCME News 9: In Brunswick, police are crediting an unnamed passerby with pulling a driver from a burning car on Route 1 southbound. When police arrived at the scene they found a 2008 Hyundai off the road and in flames. The driver was later taken...
Cumberland County sheriff's deputies are looking for a missing teen-aged girl. 16-year-old Lilia Simmons was last seen at Harpswell Coastal Academy's Brunswick location on Monday, and was reported missing by her mother, who resides in Harpswell. Deputies say the girl has no access to a phone...
Breaking from WCME News 9: Up to 100 new jobs may be created at the former naval air station at Brunswick Landing, selected as the site for the production of amphibious aircraft by the manufacturer Atol USA, which also says Brunswick Landing will serve as its...
A new and expected move in what may be Brunswick's most contentious political and environmental battle of the past year--the one over whether the town should sell--or hold onto shorefront property at 946 Mere Point Road. A citizens group questioning the sale has submitted petitions...