Jamie is finishing up his first year on the Brunswick Town Council, after being elected to fill the unexpired term of now-State Representative Dan Ankeles. Now Ecker seeks re-election to the council from District 2, opposing Marco Melendy, who joined us last week on the...
WCME Exclusive: Just as candles lit the emerging darkness over the town mall in downtown Brunswick, it seems that comforting words had a similar impact on a crowd of as many as 200, many of whom have experienced some dark recent moments of the soul prompted...
Shaun is seeking an at-large seat on the school board on a platform of fiscal responsibility and greater transparency. Shaun is an educator in his own right--a driving instructor and a one-time substitute teacher in the Brunswick schoools--as is confirmed by the photo. If you missed...
After the unexpected passing of a Brunswick High School student this week, and new concern about youth suicide, we met the moment on an extended edition of the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, with a full hour with Dr. Goodwin, a Topsham-based pediatrician and a recognized...
Abigail is a mother of 4, a Bowdoin College graduate and oversees the Community Health Improvement Fund at Mid Coast Hospital. She's one of two candidates for an at-large seat on the Brunswick School Board. If you missed her on today's WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz,...
One of our favorite periodic visitors to the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz. Denise is a violinist with Midcoast Symphony Orchestra and the symphony's chief spokeswoman on WCME. This weekend--the kick-off of the 35th symphonic season--in both Lewiston and Topsham. If you missed Denise on The Buzz,...
Kim is the first of a large load of local candidates to be heard from over the next two weeks on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz. She's running for the council seat being given up by Council Chair Abby King in Brunswick's District 3, and...
It is a simple fact of life that the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz is made better once a month by the appearance of Brunswick Police Chief Scott Stewart. We covered quite a bit of subject matter with the chief today, including the Brunswick police involvement...
On today's WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, Cumberland County District Attorney Jackie Sartoris voices the view that a so-called red flag law in Maine might have made a life-saving difference in Sunday's triple homocide in Bath, in which a wife and daughter, Lisa and Jennifer Bailey,...
Jim Bleikamp here. I talked with Phil about the formation of a state commission to study the financing of new school infrastructure across Maine, about bringing about greater equity in the funding of public education and about the handling of school bullying. If you missed it...