JR Mitchell

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Director of Membership and Sales, BRCC | 2 Time CMA & 1 Time ACM Nominee; Small Market Personality of the Year | MAB Award Winning Personality | Anah Shriner

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Maine Italian Restaurant Picked As 'The Best In The U.S' Is Open

6 days ago | q1065.fm | Arlen Jameson |JR Mitchell |Cindy Campbell |Jordan Verge

Buon appetito" Maine!Taste of Home is a website that inspires togetherness through creative cooking, sharing and entertaining. They share recipes for the best desserts, appetizers, main dish recipes, and the best of the best in the country, when it comes to food. When it came down to choosing the best Italian restaurant in each state (that is a job I'd like!) whittling it down to just one in Maine, could not have been an easy task, but when the dust settled, one destination stood aboove the rest.
Maine’s Favorite Easter Candy Is a National Embarrassment

6 days ago | q1065.fm | Chris Sedenka |JR Mitchell |Cindy Campbell

Easter is the hidden gem of holidays. Not only is it a wonderful welcome to the spring season, but it's also loaded with delicious food and treats. Who doesn't love waking up to warmer temperatures (allegedly) and finding that basket full of candy on the table? The rest of the day feels like a poor man's Thanksgiving, with ham, turkey, potatoes, pineapple, a million side dishes, and various fruit-filled pies. It's quite the smorgasbord of amazingness.
10 Picture-Perfect Spots in Greater Bangor for Proms & Weddings

1 week ago | q1065.fm | Meghan Morrison |JR Mitchell |Cindy Campbell |Jordan Verge

We're coming up on prom season, wedding season, and just plain summer. Historically, those are some of the biggest milestones folks want to capture with cameras, but where, in the Bangor area, is the best backdrop for those beautiful moments?
Weather Myths Mainers Believe-And Which Ones Are Actually True

1 week ago | q1065.fm | Stephen Lenz |JR Mitchell |Cindy Campbell |Jordan Verge

Weather myths and folklore are as common in Maine as just about anywhere. Things like red skies at night and cows laying down means certain types of weather is rooted deep in our culture. A lot of these weather predictions come from an era before modern day forecasting and meteorology, according to norcast weather. Fishermen, farmers and the like used these methods to see what conditions were in store. They took the cues from nature and adapted them to tell the weather.
Bangor Brewery Celebrating Girl Scout Cookies With Cakes

1 week ago | q1065.fm | Arlen Jameson |JR Mitchell |Cindy Campbell |Jordan Verge

Girls Scout Cookies: It's hard to find folks who don't love them. Highly anticipated, each year folks clamor to make sure they've ordered enough to satisfy their sweet tooth. Girl Scout Cookie Palooza 20, Nit-Noi RickerEveryone's got their favorite flavor. These delicious cookies have even inspired some local breweries to create complimentary concoctions to pair with these yearly yummies. In Freeport, local beer makers at Mast Landing have come up with a line of Girl Scout Cooke Beer Flavors.
These 5 Maine Restaurants and More Closed for Good in March 2025

1 week ago | q1065.fm | Sean McKenna |Meghan Morrison |JR Mitchell |Cindy Campbell

While it's great to see new restaurants open up in early 2025, the end has sadly come for some more Maine businesses this year. March marked the closure of several establishments in the state, including a pub, an ice cream shop, a bar, and a coffeehouse. Let's take a look at what places we have to say goodbye to for good. Maine Craft Distilling via Facebook; CanvaMaine Craft Distilling announced on Facebook in January that it was closing The Public House for the winter.
Why These Maine Tourist Traps Still Attract Visitors Anyway

1 week ago | q1065.fm | Arlen Jameson |JR Mitchell |Cindy Campbell |Jordan Verge

Is there anywhere in Maine that you wouldn't go to because it is too “touristy” (Yes, it is a word, I checked)Warm weather is coming, which got me to thinking about how much I love Bar Harbor, and Old Orchard Beach, but maybe I don’t enjoy both of those spots as much as I should, because each time I go, there seems to be a ton of traffic and out of state visitors. This year should be particularly interesting, due to the recent chilly relations between the United States and Canada.
2000s Country Songs You Totally Forgot About

1 week ago | q1065.fm | Billy Dukes |JR Mitchell |Cindy Campbell |Jordan Verge

Several of these forgotten 2000s country songs are needed today more than ever. It was a less divisive time in country music, and even though we bickered about what is and isn't "real country," the assaults were less personal. Politics didn't get in the way of enjoying good country music until late in the decade, but even that song — No. 35 on our list — hits different 15 years later. These forgotten songs come from forgotten artists in some cases.
15 Maine Town Names You've Probably Been Pronouncing Wrong

1 week ago | q1065.fm | Arlen Jameson |JR Mitchell |Cindy Campbell |Jordan Verge

To this day, there are people who can't say "Bangor" correctly. It's not "Banger" FYI... There is something both charming and slightly annoying about the Maine accent. Being in the radio biz, I’ve been trying to lose my Maine accent for years, but every once in a while, it slips out. As any Mainer knows, the secret to the perfect Maine accent is replacing the '-er' at the end of a word, with the letters '-ah'.
If 'The Last of Us' TV Show Was Real, These 17 Major New England Moments Wouldn’t Exist

1 week ago | q1065.fm | Sean McKenna |Jon Rineman |JR Mitchell

Imagine it's September 2003. You're drinking some delicious Dunkin' coffee, enjoying the changing of the leaves in New England, and hyped that Tom Brady took the Patriots to the Super Bowl in 2002 and (fingers crossed) could maybe find a championship again for the newest season. Things are looking up.