From WCME News 9: A neighbor tells WCME News 9 that it began with a loud boom. Fire chief Ken Brilliant says there were two injuries--neither thought to be serious--in a smoky house fire in bitter cold temperatures at the intersection of Mere Point and Maquoit Roads...
On the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, Jim says Hefner liberated us from an era in which the word "pregnant" could not be said on many American radio stations. [audio mp3="/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Bleikamp-on-Hefner-1.mp3"][/audio] ...
The Forecaster's Brunswick-Harpswell reporter Callie Ferguson joined the Thursday Midcoast Morning Buzz to talk about her story on a dilemma being faced not only in Harpswell but in rural communities throughout the nation. Hear Callie here: [audio mp3="/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Callie-July-27-1.mp3"][/audio] Read Callie's Forecaster story here: http://www.theforecaster.net/new-volunteers-help-but-harpswell-fire-departments-are-still-in-need/...
A seismic and passion-fueled U-S Senate race may be brewing in Maine in 2018. Governor LePage is thinking again about challenging Brunswick's independent incumbent and one-time Democrat Angus King. A potential race sized up by WCME political analyst and former Maine House speaker John Richardson on...
Every Saturday at Noon and 5PM, WCME electronically brings together Governor LePage and a political adversary--John Richardson, a former Democratic speaker of the Maine House and former Brunswick town councilor. Today, since there was no weekly message from the governor, John Richardson flew solo and issued...
If you missed Peter--just appointed by the city council to take over for the departing Bill Giroux--hear him now. [audio mp3="/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Owen-going-forward.mp3"][/audio]...
At WCME, we call it what it REALLY is--not a SHUTDOWN--because it isn't--not with the state police still on the job--where we want them--and not as long as the state parks are open--which they are this holiday weekend. Two very different views of what's going on....
Now the actual voices are heard. A new nationally-distributed podcast from the San Francisco-based Center for Investigative Reporting contains never-previously-heard deposition testimony from the recently settled lawsuit in Brunswick in which former junior high school student Chaz Wing charged that he had been bullied and...
In Brunswick and Topsham, the search continues on the Androscoggin River for a missing boater--a man whose name has not been released. The search began Friday evening without success, as the Maine Marine Patrol, utilizing a helicopter, spotlights and night vision technology searched the water...
Breaking from WCME News 9: After a long season of detour and delay that began in October, the Bath viaduct is now due to open next week, a full month ahead of schedule. A statement from the state transportation department says contractor Reed and Reed has...