PARIS — Within an hour, Norway police had apprehended a man for allegedly robbing Sideline Variety Saturday morning, June 29. At 8:24 a.m. a man walked into the store, according to the police report, and demanded money. When the clerk hesitated, the man repeated “give me the money” and reached toward his right hip as […]
July 2019
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Bethel Art Fair brings arts to life
BETHEL — The Bethel Art Fair, presented by Pok Sun Emporium, is an annual celebration of the diversity of art and artists in western Maine with events taking place the evening of Friday, July 5, and all day Saturday, July 6. “The community has really embraced this event and given it new life in the […]
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Gould Academy Honor Roll
BETHEL — GOULD ACADEMY has released the list of students who achieved honors academic standing for the Spring Trimester 2019. [High Honors = 92-100 Honors = 85-91] Gould Academy is a small, co-ed boarding school at the eastern edge of the White Mountains in the picturesque village of Bethel, Maine. Their mission is to prepare […]
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Bennett & Perkins to perform at Brick Church
LOVELL — Folk artists Bennet and Perkins perform at the Lovell Brick Church July 11. LOVELL — Folk artists Kathy Bennett and Thom Perkins with multi-instrumentalist Taylor Whiteside are the featured performers at the Lovell Brick Church for Performing Arts on July 11, 2019 at 7 p.m. Known as Bennett & Perkins, the duo has […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Robert Macdonald: Blame the political greed
People shouldn’t cry for the people of Portland; they are reaping what they have sown. During my tenure as Lewiston’s mayor, I repeatedly asked members of the Mayors’ Coalition to address the asylum-seeker problem. I requested that we work on and submit legislation that would relieve our cities of the economic burden of supporting undocumented […]
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Reggie Bechard: The socialists will destroy America
Four years ago, I said that the only reason the far-left liberals would allow undocumented immigrants to get drivers’ licenses would be to give them a right to vote. Who in their right mind would vote for the same candidates who are for free college, Medicare … free everything? Those freebies are coming off the […]
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Cal Thomas: Questions I would have asked the Democrats
The likelihood I would ever be invited to serve on a network panel questioning the Democratic presidential candidates is equivalent to an invitation to take the next trip to the moon. Still, as I tortured myself watching the two “debates,” which were not really debates, but mostly a show of memorized sound bites, I thought […]
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Ellen Field: Treatment is child abuse
During World War II, the U.S. government ran concentration camps in America. Hardworking Japanese-American citizens and their children were ripped from their homes and put in “relocation camps” for the duration of the war. “Concentration,” “relocation” and “work” camps are prisons for innocent people who have not been charged with any crime. These prisons are […]
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Froma Harrop: Biden remains the Democrat to beat Trump
During the Thursday debate, Kamala Harris went straight for Joe Biden’s jugular over his alleged failures on race matters. The day after, however, Keisha Lance Bottoms, the black mayor of arguably America’s blackest city, Atlanta, endorsed Biden for the Democratic nomination. And according to The Daily Beast, a Democracy Corps poll had Biden’s favorability with […]
Posted inOpinion, Our View
A city’s plan to turnaround a neighborhood
Lewiston is taking on crushing poverty, and other Maine communities should take notice.