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...
Ryan Holmes is a medical marijuana distributor, a former physical education teacher at Mt. Ararat High School and a former athletic director at Leavitt High School, who announced his candidacy on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz. A post-Buzz interview with Ryan is here. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Holmes-Candidacy.mp3"][/audio] ...
Jackie, who is also a former Brunswick town councilor, talks about the recent difficulties in dealing with neo-Nazi demonstrations in Portland. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Sartoris-Nazi-1.mp3"][/audio]...
The superintendent on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz almost a month after the meeting in which the School Board hired a new athletic director and decided not to select a particularly popular local candidate--Brunswick High School math teacher and veteran lacrosse coach Don Glover. You may...
Jim Bleikamp here. This is one subject that does not come easily to me but I believe I understand a little more and a little better after talking with Harpswell-based software developer and software engineer John Kushiner on today's WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz. If you missed...
You may know Matt Nixon as a Topsham selectman, as a family man, as a dad. But he's also a man of imagination. An aquaculture pioneer. The designer of the first 3-D-printed, closed-loop oyster-farming tank made from sustainable materials. On today's WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, we listened to Matt...
This past Wednesday, the Brunswick School Board hired Mt. Ararat Middle School Assistant Principal Kaili Phillips, a former Division 1 volleyball player at the University of Maine and veteran coach, to serve as athletic director. This move was made in front of a crowd of...