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Frank Connors is a lifelong Midcoast resident who has written for and served as a photographer for the Times Record, served as town manager in Bowdoinham, and much more. He's also a Vietnam Veteran and four years ago he wrote about that experience. And today--on Veterans...

Newly elected Freeport state representative, in her first interview since the election, as she prepares to become the new speaker of the Maine House in January, on WCME's Midcoast Morning Buzz. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Gideon.mp3"][/audio]...

[audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Question-1-Debate.mp3"][/audio] If you are still unsure about your position on Question 1, which favors the legalization of recreational marijuana use in Maine, you might want to check this one out. Two smart women who know their way around the issue, and who disagree. Portland state representative...

[audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/School-statement.mp3"][/audio] Jim Bleikamp here with some comments that I can't hold back in the wake of the settlement of a long-running lawsuit against the town of Brunswick, the school department, and against Brunswick Junior High School principal Walter Wallace. A lawsuit brought by a former...

These were the subjects of some heated complaints lodged at Wednesday night's Bath City Council meeting by Richardson Street residents Dan Dunn and Wayne Fortier.   [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Dunn-Fortier.mp3"][/audio]...

Brunswick town council chair Sarah Brayman talked with Jim Bleikamp after Monday night's council meeting about strategies that might be employed by the town to counter the moths, which consider to be a painful and expensive problem throughout the Midcoast. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Brayman-browntail.mp3"][/audio]...

On the Thursday WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, Jim Bleikamp talked with Christine Donahue, an entomologist at the Maine Forest Service, who talked about the scope of the problem, and what might be done to help get rid of it--but it's not easy. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Donahue-interview-how-long.mp3"][/audio]  ...