David Watson is Brunswick's longest-serving town councilor, the only one who wears what we might call a definitive "conservative" label and for that reason and others, he connects with a like-minded group of people in town--not small in size--who have a bond with Watson that...
A whole bunch of people--many of them kids--from 9 to 90--enjoy the carnival rides every year at Bath Heritage Days, and at other spots in Maine. And inevitably the company providing and operating those rides is Smoky's Greater Shows--a firm that's been around for 65...
Delightful Friday moments today on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz hosting the award-winning husband-and-wife independent filmmakers Matt Notthelfer and Alicia Wszelaki, whose new film "Flying Fur" is attracting many eyeballs. It's a documentary focusing on Iraq War vet and private pilot Paul Steklenski and his team...
Big fun to spend some time today on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz with Amy Lilly--overseeing Pepper's Landing--your new stop for lobster and seafood at Merrymeeting Plaza, Bath Road, Brunswick. If you missed it, you can hear it here. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Amy-interview.mp3"][/audio]...
Jim Bleikamp here. Some notable changes are ahead for this year's massive Heritage Days celebration in Bath over the Fourth of July weekend. For one thing it is no longer simply "Bath Heritage Days"--it is "Bath Heritage Days and Music Festival"--yes with a greater focus on...
We at WCME have had a number of requests to post our recent interview with Pete Slovinsky–a coastal geologist at the Maine Geological Survey–a unit of the state department of agriculture. Pete talks here about how climate change is ALREADY impacting us, what we might...
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Annie is a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 2020 who caught the eyes of many on the Midcoast with her recent op-ed in the Bowdoin Orient, which has to do with the gulf that sometimes exists between the college and the community and...
After Mike Violette sounded off on today's Buzz on the emergence of eight-man football in some high schools in Maine, Mike and Jim Bleikamp tackled an emerging political and educational development in Maine. It so happens that on one day recently, the teenaged son of newly-elected...
Jim Bleikamp here. Every day-every month-every year at WCME we air a multitude of local voices--it's a big part of what we do. Some of them come to the Midcoast Morning Buzz at our studio at Fort Andross in downtown Brunswick and are heard live. Many others...