BETHEL — There was a changing of the guard at the flower islands in town. Lida Isles, of the Bethel Garden Club, was handed the baton by Carol Nielsen about 15 years ago. Now Iles has handed it off to Betsy Raymond. “You think of a garden club as people who twist wire flowers together […]
Rose Lincoln
Staff Writer
Bethel Citizen writer and photographer Rose Lincoln lives in Bethel with her husband and a rotating cast of visiting dogs, family, and friends. A photojournalist for several years, she worked alongside many great writers, never fully appreciating what they do — until now.
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Cummings Plot Update
GREENWOOD — This June, Sue Nusbaum and a team of local people will begin to restore a destroyed cemetery across from the Greenwood Town Beach on Greenwood Road. (See Bethel Citizen story published April 20). A few years ago, while researching her family history Nusbaum discovered she has direct descendants in the Cummings Plot that […]
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Photo Album: Bethel celebrates grads with a community parade
Telstar graduated 38 seniors on Friday. They were feted at a parade on Bethel Common on Tuesday night by emergency trucks, followed by cars with friends and family.
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Harry Orcutt’s Memorial Day Speech
Memorial Day 2023 Let Us Remember Delivered at Jackson-Silver Post 68, Lockes Mills, on Monday, May 29, 2023 by Harry G. Orcutt, Post Commander, American Legion Department of Maine Memorial Day, avowed to be a National Day of Remembrance for those who have sacrificed their lives on behalf of the people of the United […]
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SAD 44 budget goes to the polls on June 13
Voting will take place at the American Legion Mundt-Allen Post #81 in Bethel and at town offices in Greenwood, Newry and Woodstock.
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Full military honors for Stanley W. Allen of Bethel
BETHEL — Stanley Willis Allen of Bethel was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. More than 80 years later, on May 24, his remains were identified. He will be buried with full military honors at the New Maine Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery, Augusta, on Tuesday, July 18 at 1 p.m. Allen […]
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Region 9 trains future firefighters
“This program really did change my life … I had more purpose. I found my people,” said Mitch Dunbar, a Rumford firefighter who graduated from the program in 2020.
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Three Region 9 students have joined Greenwood Fire
GREENWOOD — Greenwood Fire Department has three high school students on its roster at a time when fire stations are critically understaffed in the region. Bella Brassard, 17 and her brother, Ronald Brassard, 18, live in Albany and are on the call force at Greenwood Fire. Ronald plans to work in construction but also fight […]
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Photo Album: Telstar Freshmen Academy & others pay it forward
Students in the Pay It Forward program paint benches and tables donated by AARP and assembled by Congo Craftsmen.
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Bethel’s Memorial Day ceremony short but poignant
BETHEL — Several seats along the front of the Memorial Day observance at Veteran’s Park saved for veterans were left unfilled and when the Mahoosuc Community Band played the medley, “Marches of Armed Forces,” just one man stood at a time. For a few of the songs no men or women stood to be honored […]