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Former Topsham Selectman Bill Thompson on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz joining the ever-growing chorus of community voices favoring forward motion on the construction of a new bridge over the Androscoggin River between Brunswick and Topsham.
In the same moment that commercial traffic is now prohibited on the Frank J. Wood Bridge connecting Brunswick and Topsham, very harsh criticism of the citizens group Friends of the Bridge, the group staging a legal fight in opposition to a new bridge.
On the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, Brunswick At-Large Councilor Kathy Wilson said, “It is the citizens that are doing this…that court case is putting the whole town in danger and if they were good citizens they’d call it off. That bridge is a rusty hunk of junk…it is unsafe.”
A spokesman for Friends of the Bridge tells WCME News that no decisions have been made by group members about future legal strategy–thus leaving the door open for a future appeal if the current appeal is denied.
If you missed her on the radio, you may hear Kathy Wilson here.
Central Maine Medical Center’s Dr. Brown has been helping Mainers battle one of the toughest cancers of all. And now an update on how the fight is progressing.
On the latest edition of Central Maine Healthcare Close-Up the conclusion of a two-part series on Recovery.
Specifically, recovery from substance abuse.
The guest is Corrie Brown, Substance Misuse Prevention Coordinator at Healthy Androscoggin–a division of Central Maine Healthcare.
If you missed it on the radio, you can still catch it here.
If you missed this weekend’s Central Maine Healthcare Close-Up, you missed out on some summer health and safety tips as we emerge from a long pandemic. From Nurse Practitioner Jennifer Flynn from Central Maine Medical Center. But you can still hear it at this link:
Central Maine Healthcare Close-Up–Saturday morning at 9:05 in the morning and Sunday mornings at 8:45 on 99-5 WCME.
The veteran state representative seeks a new lease on life in Augusta and will wage a primary battle with the former occupant of the seat–who wants it back.
Longtime Bowdoinham state representative Seth Berry, co-chair of the legislature’s Energy Committee, reacts to the very unusual op-ed from Maine’s Public Utilities Commission, appearing in the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, which drops as the PUC continues an investigation of Central Maine Power.
Seth Berry exclusively on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz–and if you missed it–you can hear it here.
Jim Bleikamp here. Next time when I am prone to complain that my life is overly chaotic, I will think of Abdi Iftin–my guest today on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, who was born 34 years ago in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia in the Horn of Africa—only to see his homeland devolve into civil war when he was only five years old. He would eventually tell the story of the Somalian civil war for National Public Radio, he would escape the Somalian chaos first in Kenya, and then in Maine, where he has lived for the past five years–he now resides in Freeport.
Abdi is about to become a U-S citizen and at a moment of new refugee arrivals in Brunswick, Abdi told his story on today’s WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz.
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 do about it, and what, in some cases, is already being done. Pete also talks about its potential impact on the fishing industry.