BETHEL — According to Marcy Scanlon, Bethel Recreation director, one lesson is abundantly clear during the first season of the Bethel Community Ice Rink: it takes a village to successfully skate. Volunteers maintain the rink, sometimes scraping in the middle of the night when they get off of work. “There is a large group of […]
A.M. Sheehan
Staff Writer
A.M. Sheehan has been in the news business for 40 years, including time as an editor at the Chatham Courier in N.Y., Kitchenware News, Beachcomber and Dover Community News in N.H., and the Summerville Journal Scene, Georgetown Times, Waccamaw Times and Inlet Outlet in S.C. In Maine she has been an editor for the
Advertiser Democrat, Bethel Citizen, Franklin Journal and Livermore Falls Advertiser, and is currently managing editor for the Sun Journal's group of western Maine weeklies. She is a former journalist of the year in Maine, a Pulitzer finalist and winner of the Michael Kelley Award, the Polk Award and the Casey Medal Award. A.M. enjoys reading, theater, cooking and gardening.
Using artistic expression to heal
BETHEL — Joy Cromwell believes that creativity is important in our lives and she uses creative expression as means to help people coping with anxiety, depression, or trauma. “Too often we treat creativity as something supplemental,” Cromwell says. “But being in touch with your creativity helps you get in touch with your feelings in a […]
Book Review/ The Book Rescuer
By Sue Macy Illustrated by Stacy Innerst The Book Rescuer by Sue Macy is a Junior Biography, beautifully illustrated by New York Times award winning artist, Stacy Innerst. The content is about preserving Jewish literature written in Yiddish. This multiple award winning book is appropriate for young readers and listeners as well as adults. Imagine […]
How do you say that in…
English: autographFrench: autographeSpanish: autógrafoGerman: Autogramm (German capitalizes nouns)Italian: autografoChinese: Qiānmíng 签名
Word of the Week
Autograph A person’s handwritten name. Also called their signature.Auto means self, and graph means to write.Some fans collect the autographs of famous people by asking them to sign things such as photographs or posters or even napkins!
Black History Month/Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr. (pronounced junior, but usually written as Jr.) was a singer, dancer, and actor. He was also a comedian, a film producer, and a television director.If you heard him sing or watched him dance, you would think he didn’t have any problems. And for the first 18 years of his life, he didn’t […]
President’s List
AUGUSTA — University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) Interim President and Provost Joseph Szakas announce the 2021 Full-Time President’s List for the Fall Semester: Taylor Day, Turner; Riley Gray, Livermore Falls; Lydia Lee, Greene; Bill Longtin, Greene; Brooke Nadeau, Greene; Deborah Brown, Kents Hill; Natasha Clarke, Monmouth; Emily Cunningham, Winthrop; Jonathan Fink, Winthrop; Kendra Furber, […]
Heartfelt ‘thank you’
To the Editor: The Bethel Outing Club was host to over 85 skiers from around New England at its 31st running of the Flying Moose Classic Ski Race at the Inland Woods + Trails, Bethel village system, located at the Bethel Inn Resort on Saturday, February 5, 2022. This race consisted of 10 kilometer and 20 […]
President’s List
Husson The following students have been named to the Fall 2021 President’s List at Husson University. A student who makes the President’s List must be enrolled as an undergraduate student, carry a full-time load of 12 credit hours, complete all attempted courses in the time allotted for the semester, and achieve a 3.80 to 4.0-semester […]