Andy Capwell

Spend a great day with Dad and the entire family on Sunday, June 19th, Father's Day. Most Maine State Parks will have free admission on Father's Day.

Thrillist.com just submitted their 4th edition of 'The Best Pizzerias in America'. Where do I sign up for a gig like that? A Maine pizzeria made their list for the second year in a row.

Money Rates.com had an article that caught my eye, it was titled 'Top 10 Best and Worst States To Be Rich'. Being rich in this article was deemed as earning $90,060 per year, that would put you into the top ten percent of wage earners in the country. In forming their list, they factored top-tier income levels, tax rates and property crime.

USA Today has a Reader's Choice: American Summer Favorites series where you can vote online on a variety of categories. One of the voting choices is for 'Best Main Street In America'. Bath, Maine is one of the twenty nominated Main Streets that you can vote for.

Memorial Day is one week away and Maine has 36 state parks and 1 national park for us to enjoy this summer. If you are like me, you tend to go to the same state parks year after year. Here's a handy guide of the state parks in Maine. Maybe this year you can explore a new state park.

Maine is arguably the most beautiful state in the country. The beautiful rocky coast, the western mountains and everyplace in between. However, Maine isn't one of the most wealthiest states in the country. 14.1% of Mainers live below the poverty line, that is actually lower than the national average of 15.9%. Based on the 2014 American Community Survey from Census.gov, these are the ten poorest to

Estately.com has complied a list of the 'Nerdiest States In America'. They analyzed Facebook data to determine the percentage of users who listed these 12 criteria as interests: Star Trek:  The Next Generation Cosplay Harry Potter Star Wars Anime Movies Dungeons & Dragons LARPing (Live Action Role-Playing) Doctor Who Fantasy Lit Lord of the Rings Magic:  The Gathering Comic Books

The United States has many great small towns and the website Thrillist.com just came out with their list of 'The 25 Best Small US Cities To Spend The Weekend'. The Thrillist.com staff went to thousands of US cities with under 90,000 in population and based their list of a fun three-day getaway from restaurants, bars, and breweries, to parks, museums, and outdoor activities and then rank the best 2

French Fries, those golden brown, crispy spheres of tasty bliss are an American obsession. Maine is also known for our potatoes, so it makes sense that a Maine restaurant made the list of '10 Best French Fries in America'.

Insure.com surveyed 2,000 drivers nationwide to find out who are rudeness drivers in the country. Many Mainers are cringing at the thought of those out-of-state drivers this summer. So which out-of-state drivers should we be most on the lookout for?

Ice cream stores in Maine are opening up for the season and Travel + Leisure Magazine has an article on the Best Ice Cream in Maine. I'd love to have that assignment! We had asked our listeners where your go to ice cream place was. We got many great places including Fielder's Choice and Gifford's as our two most popular answers. But, what did Travel + Leisure come up with?

The weather is warming up in Maine and that means the drive-in restaurants are opening for the season. I remember growing up in Lewiston and our trips to Val's Drive-In on Sabattus Street. The server comes up right to your car and that tray of food being hooked on the car window, what a country!

It sure didn't take long for gas prices to soar past two dollars per gallon. According to the price-monitoring website GasBuddy.com, the average for a gallon of gas in Maine is now at $2.19 per gallon. That is up nine cents per gallon over last week.

The ice was out early this year and that means a long fishing season in Maine! Maine sure has plenty of fantastic lakes and streams to fish in. Maybe your favorite fishing spot is Belgrade Lakes, Moosehead Lake, Lake Auburn, or Sebago Lake?

A new study just released from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, McKinsey, and the U.S. Treasury looks at what are America's longest-living cities. The study, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, used income versus life expectancy in a sample involving more than 1.4 billion person-year observations of Americans between the ages of 40 to 76. After comparing the taxes people earned t

The website Thrillist.com has complied a list of what each of the fifty U.S.states are worst at. They picked out one key area where each is most deficient. I'll let you know what Maine was worst at in a moment. It wasn't really bad when compared to some of what the other states were worst at. Here are some of the worst or the worst!