Monday Dixfield: Budget Committee, 5:30 p.m., Ludden Memorial Library Farmington: Franklin County Commission, 9 a.m., county building New Vineyard: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Smith Hall Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Wilton: Finance Committee, 6 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Buckfield: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Municipal Center Hartford: Budget Committee, 7 p.m., Town Office Mexico: Mexico Sewer District […]
Bethel
News and information about the Bethel area from the Sun Journal.
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Woodstock to vote on proposed boat landing
WOODSTOCK — Residents will vote at the annual town meeting on March 28 whether to approve a proposed boat landing on North Pond following months of discussion. The article asks residents if they wish to purchase property on North Pond for $70,000 and develop it as a boat launch and landing site. Town Manager Vern […]
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Newry students join ‘Kick Butts’ campaign
BETHEL — As part of a nationwide effort to curb tobacco use by children, students from a private school in Newry will speaking to fourth-graders at Crescent Park Elementary School at 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 16, about the dangers of smoking. Students from The Eddy School are one of more than 1,000 groups of children […]
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Bethel, Greenwood societies to jointly publish book
BETHEL – The Bethel Historical Society will team up with the Greenwood Historical Society to publish an annotated and illustrated book based on the writings of Addison Emery Verrill, a Greenwood native and zoologist born in 1839. Randall Bennett, executive director of the Bethel society, said Verrill recorded many of his memories about “the early […]
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Newry residents approve bond for Sunday River Road paving
NEWRY — Residents voted Tuesday at the annual town meeting to authorize the Board of Selectmen to issue a bond not to exceed $850,000 to pave Sunday River Road from Monkey Brook Road. Earlier in the meeting, residents voted to allow selectmen to take $150,000 from the capital improvement account to pave a section of […]
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Newry voters approve $10,000 for transit service
NEWRY — Residents voted at Tuesday evening’s annual town meeting to raise and appropriate $10,000 for the Mountain Explorer public transportation program. The free service based in Bethel that takes people to Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry and restaurants in the area. Town Administrator Amy Bernard told voters that at the 2015 annual town […]
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This week’s agenda
Monday Dixfield: Joint meeting of selectmen and Finance Committee, 5:30 p.m., Ludden Memorial Library Farmington: Franklin County Commission, 9 a.m., county building Hartford: Food bank, 4 p.m., Town hall Hartford: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Hall New Vineyard: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Smith Hall Paris: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town […]
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Newry voters electing officers, deciding a budget
NEWRY — Residents will vote on a $763,000 municipal budget at their annual town meeting Tuesday, March 8. The meeting will kick off at 7 p.m. at the Bear River Grange Hall, and will be preceded by a potluck supper at 6 p.m. Election of a moderator, a selectman/assessor/overseer of the poor, and a School […]
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Where will you caucus?
Green independents For information, call 207-200-6447, or go to mainegreens.org * Republicans: March 5 Towns in Franklin County, 2 p.m., Mt. Blue High School, Farmington. Registration begins at 1 p.m. Towns in Oxford County, 1 p.m., Telstar Regional High School, Bethel. Registration begins at noon. For more information call 207-622-6247, or go to mainegop.com * […]
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What did you do with your extra day in 2016?
The leap year does an amazing thing for us — it gives us extra time. Every four years, we get an entire extra day to work, play, shop — or do nothing at all. On Leap Day, Feb. 29, our reporters observed — for just a minute — how some in our community spent their […]