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09/23/2024

Remember when I did the show from the Ferris wheel last year?😂🎡
I have 2 seperate 4-packs of tickets to the Fryeburg Fair to win on air starting in 5 minutes💃🏼🍁🍂
Krissy In The Morning 📍

09/23/2024

Let’s start Monday with a brawl🤠

09/23/2024

Are you afraid of spiders? 🕷️

I am now going to comb my backyard with a fine tooth comb in search for a nest.

09/22/2024

IYKYK

If you consider yourself a true Red Sox fan, you probably already know about the significance of the lone red seat. It's seat 21 in row 37 of section 42, and it's known as the Ted Williams red seat.

09/22/2024

Wait a second...

09/22/2024

It's one of the most iconic buildings in all of Maine and has a century-old history that you may not know about.

The Time and Temperature Building: A Portland landmark with a rich history dating back to 1924.

09/22/2024

Time to eat...

Where is the best three-way roast beef sandwich in New England? A local Facebook group with 30,000 people, a strict criteria, and tons of beef will answer that question.

09/22/2024

Do you?

If you were in Maine during the 70s and 80s, you may remember this locally produced game show on Maine's PBS station WCBB, channel 10.

09/21/2024

Surprise!

Every trip on the Maine Turnpike using my EZ Pass seemed to be fine until I got a hefty violation in the mail.

09/21/2024

Is the project around Back Cove in Portland, Maine, our version of the 'Big Dig'?

09/21/2024

Plot twist: the planets are judging you harder than Mercury in retrograde.

09/21/2024

Uh oh...

Take a peak at 10 things that out-of-towners are never allowed to say to us in Maine!

09/21/2024

Uh oh...

Tell us how you really feel...

09/20/2024

Heads up!

If you live in southern Maine towns, you may have noticed a lot more noisy planes flying over your house.

09/20/2024

Sadly, a glitch in the Matrix has somehow kept Neo at the Kennebec Valley Humane Society for over 130 days.

Could this lovable Maine dog be "The One" for you?

Could this lovable Maine dog be The One for you? Sadly, a glitch in the Matrix has somehow kept Neo, a Retriever and Labrador/mix, at the Kennebec Valley Humane Society for over 130 days.

09/20/2024

Something like this? 🙃

09/20/2024

This is strictly opinion based after 9 years living in Maine, but here are the top 3 words that happen to all be town names that I've noticed are always mispronounced by out-of-stater's.

09/20/2024

Just a bunch of ladies burying a raw piece of meat in the soil. Nothing to see here.

09/20/2024

If you've got a sweet tooth...

Falmouth, Maine is getting the first franchise of Mindy's Munchies - a successful candy store started by a stay-at-home mom from New Jersey.

09/20/2024

Best of the best! 🌽

Congratulations to Treworgy Family Orchards in Levant, Maine, named the best corn maze in the nation...again!

09/19/2024

Where is the best place to get seafood in Maine?

Only one Maine restaurant be found on Yelp's list of the top 100 seafood places. Are you surprised there aren't more?

09/19/2024

You can still hear AND smell this ball.

09/19/2024

The Blue Envelope Program gives drivers with special needs a blue envelope to store important documents like their driver’s license and vehicle registration.

Since the program was introduced, more than 30 Maine police departments have taken part showing strong support.

09/19/2024

Maine did relatively well in this year's rankings.

It seems like Maine was slightly snubbed in this year's Forbes Top 500 Colleges list.

09/19/2024

There’s an Airbnb listing in Islesboro, Maine that’s absolutely stunning, but there's a part of the description that might make you do a double-take.

Are the couches gay?

09/18/2024

Let's start with what I considered to be the most incredible part of the entire concert; when he stopped dead in the middle of a song to make sure a fan was okay. But it didn't end there.

09/18/2024

Portland has lost one of its best and most underrated establishments.

One of Portland's most underrated joints has closed its doors for good, after 10 years of serving delicious American Chinese classics and dim sum.

09/18/2024

How does someone get away with an expired car registration for this long?

09/18/2024

That moment when you’ve made a bad decision and now you just gotta sit there and live with it.

09/18/2024

Candid moments are the best moments✨🎙️
Being able to make new friends while I put them on the radio with me to talk about the concert was electric.

Thank you for listening to Krissy in the Morning & thank you for always having fun with the show Maine❤️✨

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Videos

Emergency Press Conference: Metal Detectors @ the Fryeburg Fair🎡🚨

Austin Richards, you’re such a king for this👑 Mental Health was a huge part of his show in Bangor last Monday. Who else loves @postmalone even more because of it? #bangor #maine #postmalone #f1trillion #mainesavingsamphitheater #concert #country #mentalhealthawareness

I thought he was gonna say Krissy but he meant @chrisstapleton 😏

🔗: http://wjbq.com/?p=321615 Share a gif below for how you'd react if you saw a UFO? There have been a total of 12 sightings in Maine so far this year...

📢 more @kanebrown tix @ 7am on Krissy in the Morning🤠 @krissytradio

Happy 4th, everyone! Enjoy your BBQs, boats, and beaches! Feel free to blast out throwback weekend on in the background! 🎧🥩🍔🎆🎇

When you never planned on putting “Olympic sprinter” on your resume but you left work at One City Center.

To show we aren’t tone deaf with our Two From Timberlake contest, enjoy this acapella PSA to the tune of SexyBack.

Just realized I never posted this yesterday. I think the cookies are called half moons? Whatever, point is I clearly love cookies.

These are the hidden pickle ball courts in Portland in Deering Oaks I wrote that article about earlier. What kind of dog walking mom would I be if I didn’t go back & show you exactly what I’m talking about? 😂🏓🏏 @krissytradio