Andover projects $1.58 M budget for school year
The budget includes Andover Elementary and payment for students attending SAD 44 and RSU 10 schools.
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‘Portrait of a Graduate’ program focuses on students over academics at Telstar
The new recognition celebrates six qualities: empathy, communication, learner’s mind-set, perseverance, responsibility and self-goal directed, Principal John Eliot said.
New baby loons, Telstar wins and saying bye to a local logging legacy capped a busy 2025
The months of July through December are documented in words and photographs from the pages of The Bethel Citizen.
Snow-laden western Maine
Recent snowstorms created beautiful vistas in the Bethel area.
Titles of banned books get prime spot out front of Andover library
Librarians at Andover Public Library have displayed book titles and their authors that often appear on ‘banned’ lists.
Police services, new Woodstock manager and winning Telstar teams among top Bethel-area news in 2025
Here are some of the news and events we reported on in the first half of the year.
Rumford to lease old fire station as hub for recreation
The Central Fire Station, closed in October 2024, will be leased to Inland Woods + Trails for three years as a home base in Rumford.
At Bethel’s airport, regional pilots fly in but few pay out
Pilots registered to area towns benefit from using the airport, but local taxpayers are left footing the bill for operations while no other communities contribute to its upkeep.
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Federal judge orders ICE to return 2 detained men to Maine from Louisiana
U.S. District Judge John Woodcock said he was concerned about their access to their lawyer more than 1,600 miles away in Portland.
3 Gould Academy alumni join U.S. Olympic snowboard team
Gould graduates Nathan Pare, Hanna Percy and Brianna Schnorrbusch will compete at the February games in Milan, Italy.
A message of unity posted for Bethel motorists
‘Love wins’ was spray-painted on a sign at the Route 2 rest stop.
Go inside Bethel’s mineral museum, where Maine gemstone history shines
Experts say Maine tourmaline continues to shape regional culture and identity, from museum exhibits and scientific research to jewelry, education and local commerce.
Feds gave judge in Maine wrong whereabouts of man arrested by Border Patrol
Federal officials told the court that Cristian Yair de la Cruz Guillermo had been moved to Massachusetts, but he was still in Maine.
In field dominated by men, Otisfield code officer brings her skills, perspective to the job
Otisfield’s Kate Matthews — one of just a few, but growing number of women in the state to work as a code enforcement officer — says she is ‘always learning.’
Ecuador native arrested in Bethel after being removed from US in 2022
The man was 1 of 9 who allegedly tried to evade federal agents 2 weeks ago.
Middle school skiers compete in Bethel
Skiers from Farmington, Waterville, Bethel, Oxford Hills, Dirigo and Maranacook competed Jan. 17 in a Nordic relay.
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