BETHEL – A state official suggested to selectmen Monday night that the town try pretreating its roads with calcium chloride this winter. Phil Curtis, an employee with the Maine Local Roads Division of the Maine Department of Transportation, said interim Town Manager Steve Eldridge asked MDOT about pre-treating roads with calcium chloride after selectmen expressed […]
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Mahoosuc Land Trust to celebrate 25th anniversary Sept. 27
BETHEL — The Mahoosuc Land Trust will celebrate its 25th anniversary by inviting people to submit their original artworks or written works influenced by the Mahoosuc region, development associate Jolan Ippolito said Monday afternoon. Artworks, photographs and written works will be accepted until Wednesday, Sept. 17. “It’ll take some time to judge the work being […]
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Roads, veterans park expansion on Bethel board agenda
BETHEL — Pre-treating town roads with calcium chloride and possibly expanding the veterans park are on the selectmen agenda Monday. The board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15, at the Town Office. Interim Town Manager Steve Eldridge said selectmen previously asked about speaking to the Maine Department of Transportation about pre-treating town roads […]
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Business booming for Bethel sporting goods and seafood retail shop
BETHEL — Sarah Lane and her fiancee, Jeremy Fredette, both of Albany Township, have accomplished a lot since Memorial Day 2013. That day they opened Bethel Bait Tackle & More, a sporting goods and seafood retail store at 7 Mechanic St., they learned that it filled a needed niche rather well. Business took off so […]
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Ninth annual CROP walk in Bethel scheduled for Sept. 21
BETHEL — The West Parish Congregational Church will host its ninth annual CROP Walk on Saturday, Sept. 21, to raise money to provide hunger relief globally and locally. The walk for CROP, which stands for Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty, is a 3-mile event for which participants gather pledges and walk around the village. Jane […]
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Bethel Historical Society to participate in Harvestfest with illustrated program, book signing
BETHEL — The Bethel Historical Society is planning to participate in the 17th annual Bethel Harvestfest at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, by hosting a lecture to recognize the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Executive Director Randall Bennett said that the Bethel Historical Society has attempted to hold programs around the same time as […]
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Bethel business owners find rare calico lobster, donate it to Maine State Aquarium
BETHEL — “Freckles” won’t be tossed into anyone’s lobster pot. The rare calico crustacean was discovered Saturday among the lobsters sold to a local sporting goods store that supplies seafood to local businesses and the community. “It’s highly unusual in that it’s a calico lobster, but not the usual orange with black spots,” Sarah Lane […]
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Man convicted in Bethel rape scheduled for retrial
PARIS — A jury is expected to be selected next week for the retrial of a former Bethel man convicted of raping a sleeping woman in 2012. Spencer Glover, 32, was sentenced to six years in prison after a jury found him guilty on one count of gross sexual assault in July 2012. That decision was […]
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Western Maine barbershop chorus ramps up for 2014-15 season
BETHEL — Women ages 18 and older who are interested in learning to sing barbershop harmony are invited to join western Maine’s Mollyockett Chorus. It is starting back up from a summer break and three summer shows, member Jolan Ippolito of Bethel said Thursday by email. “We rehearse in Oxford and have about a 45-minute […]
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Missing Woodstock woman found safe
WOODSTOCK — A Woodstock woman who had been missing since Wednesday has been found safe. An Oxford County communications center dispatcher confirmed Sunday afternoon that the woman had been found, but referred other questions to the sheriff’s office. A telephone message was left with an officer. The Facebook page for Kathleen Zurzolo also was updated […]