Kevin (r) and Keith Carlon (l)--two brothers born and raised in Brunswick--have become the first proprietors to be licensed to operate a medical marijuana storefront in Brunswick under the terms of the town's new ordinance--enacted last year. The Carlons have been operating for two months--on today's...
Louise and Lucie are activists in the Bowdoin College student organization "Bowdoin Climate Change." They appeared on the Monday WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz in the aftermath of Friday's world-wide "climate strike" to show concern about the warming of the earth. They say the Bowdoin College observance...
Melissa and Cate are focused on disease prevention and on wellness at Midcoast Center for Community Health and Wellness--at Midcoast Hospital's Parkview Campus on Main Street in Brunswick. They joined Jim Bleikamp on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Midcoast-9-17-.mp3"][/audio]...
Jim Bleikamp here. It was both fun and poignant hearing from Georgetown's Maureen Stanton on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz--talking about her newly published gaze on the hard highway she rode in the 70s. Not far away--in Walpole, Massachusetts. Just a bit south of Boston. If you missed...
Today is the drop date for the fifth novel from Bowdoin College creative writing professor Brock Clarke. "Who are You, Calvin Bledsoe?" The story focuses on a small-town Mainer living in the house in which he grew up, who first sees his father and then his mother...
The latest talk about broad-based solar power is in Topsham, where the select board has authorized a solar-advocating citizens group known as Topsham Solar Advocates to consult with both town staff and solar developers with the aim of presenting a solar power purchase plan to...
Seth is a Democratic state representative from Bowdoinham who co-chairs the legislature's energy committee. He's also the legislature's most vocal critic of Central Maine Power, and is pushing a bill that would require the sale of its assets for the formation of a consumer-owned utility--as...
Longtime Bowdoinham state representative Seth Berry, co-chair of the legislature's Energy Committee, reacts to the very unusual op-ed from Maine's Public Utilities Commission, appearing in the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, which drops as the PUC continues an investigation of Central Maine Power. Seth...
Our way of reminding you that help and donations are appreciated in the drive to help the refugees arriving in Brunswick from Portland. Utilizing the tuneful reflections of the pop icon Neil Sedaka. You can touch base with Brunswick town hall at 725-6659. And you can hear...
Jim Bleikamp here. Next time when I am prone to complain that my life is overly chaotic, I will think of Abdi Iftin–my guest today on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, who was born 34 years ago in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia in the...