WCME's Mike Violette has a problem. He's predicted that the Celtics will lose their current playoff series to the Philadelphia 76ers. But the Celtics already have a leg up on proving Mike wrong. Because they won the series opener. A not-inflamed Mike discussed the situation on the...
Jim Bleikamp here. Kelly is a young woman and a senior at Brunswick High School, who in large part, has grown up at the Brunswick Teen Center. She had some tough times in coming of age, and says the teen center and teen center coordinator...
Ben is a school board member and former two-term town councilor. He was heard on the April 2 Midcoast Morning Buzz, defending a plan that calls for a nearly five percent tax hike to fund public education in Brunswick for the 2018-2019 fiscal year. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Tucker-school-budget.mp3"][/audio] ...
On the Monday Midcoast Morning Buzz, a collage of voices from this past Saturday in downtown Brunswick--where almost everyone it seemed was focused on guns. Most of them were there to show support for an increase in gun restrictions. But not all. If you missed it,...
LePage and Richardson--The Republican governor and John Richardson, the former Democratic speaker of the Maine House. Every Saturday they are on WCME usually tackling the same subject from diametrically opposed points of view. And sometimes they go their own way. This weekend, the governor was talking...
2018 Social Security changes. Brunwick-based certified financial planner Eric Simonds ran them down for you on this weekend's WCME Midcoast Money Memo--every Saturday morning at 11:05. If you missed it, you can still hear it here. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/MMM-2-3-18.mp3"][/audio]...
For the second time in less than two years, the federal agriculture department has denied a request from Governor LePage to ban food stamp recipients from using their benefits to buy sugary drinks and candy. A LePage spokeswoman says the request will be resubmitted. On this...
Jim Bleikamp here. Nearly 50 years after his death, it surely does seem that the "I Have a Dream" speech is the winner when it comes to the speech by Martin Luther King that is his best known and most-loved. And not, of course, without substantial reason. It...
At St. John's Catholic School on Pleasant Street in Brunswick on Pleasant Street in Brunswick, they are beginning a drive to find more students with an Open House at the school on Sunday January 28 from Noon-2. You're invited. And on the Thursday Midcoast Morning Buzz,...
Recorded at WCME and heard on the Thursday 'WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz." From Logan and Juliet. Logan Whelan and Juliet Frizzle of the Brunswick Junior High School Choral Program. And you can hear it here: [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Logan-and-Juliet-Baby-Its-Cold-Outside.mp3"][/audio] ...