Monday Bethel: Ordinance Review Committee, 6:15 p.m., Town Office Dixfield: Selectmen, 5:30 p.m., Ludden Memorial Library Hebron: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Jay: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Paris: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Waterford: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Buckfield: Community Day Committee, 6 p.m., Municipal Center […]
Bethel
News and information about the Bethel area from the Sun Journal.
Posted inBethel, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Petitioners seek to close Andover school
ANDOVER — Several residents are circulating a petition to ask the town’s school board to close Andover Elementary School because of escalating costs. “The discussion has to be had,” said Jack Miserocchi, one of the petitioners. Andover withdrew from SAD 44 in 2015, and the town has operated the K-5 school since then. Older students […]
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Posted inBethel, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Regional agenda
Monday Bethel: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Casco: Open Space Commission, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Mexico: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office New Vineyard: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Smith Hall Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Buckfield: Economic Development Committee, 6 p.m., Municipal Center Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Livermore: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town […]
Posted inBethel, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Newry withdrawal effort will continue, chairman says
NEWRY — “We are going to go ahead with the withdrawal process,” Jim Sysko, chairman of Newry’s Withdrawal Committee, told about 40 people at Tuesday’s public hearing. They were discussing a Nov. 8 referendum on changing the SAD 44 formula for determining how education costs are shared among member towns. The question that will appear […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Bethel, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
West Paris woman rescuing horses, restoring ‘faith’
WEST PARIS — There’s Atlas, a former New York City carriage horse who developed permanent bladder problems. Apollo, a former Amish cart horse with knees that barely function. And Smokey, a saddle-bred horse that lost his owner to cancer and missed her so much that for a time he was very aggressive. These horses, and […]
Posted inBethel, Lewiston-Auburn
Wife-Carrying Championship features romance and mud
NEWRY — Fifty couples braved rough terrain and muddy water at Sunday River’s 17th annual North American Wife Carrying Championship on Saturday, all for the chance to win the competing woman’s weight in beer and five times her weight in cash. Team Storey, with Elliot and Giana Storey of Westbrook, took first place with a […]
Posted inBethel, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Regional agenda
Monday Casco: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Casco Community Center Farmington: Franklin County Commission, 9 a.m., county building Hartford: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office New Vineyard: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Smith Hall Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Rumford: Rumford Public Library board of trustees, 3 p.m., library Rumford: Selectmen, 5:30 p.m., Municipal Building Tuesday Buckfield: […]
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Rusticating on Round Pond: The Woodsum’s Field Camps
For nearly two centuries, the Alder River Ponds in Greenwood and Woodstock —North Alder, South Alder and Round Alder, which are known today simply as North, South and Round ponds — have played a major role in the area’s economy. Samuel Locke built the first dam on the Alder River, about 500 feet above the […]
Posted inBethel, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Public hearing on recycling referendum Oct. 18
NEWRY — The town will hold a public hearing at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at the Town Office to go over the wording of the Oxford County Regional Recycling referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot. The referendum, if passed, will dissolve the Oxford County Regional Recycling Corp. because escalating transportation costs and a […]
Posted inBethel, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Regional agenda
Monday Dixfield: Selectmen, 5:30 p.m., Ludden Memorial Library Hebron: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Jay: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Paris: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Waterford: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Casco: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Hartford: Road Committee, 7 p.m., Town Office Paris: Planning […]