MEXICO — Tradition, pride, honor and integrity are more than words on a patch. For students in the newest Region 9 School of Applied Science, they are values to live by. Fire science students learn to manage risks as they engage in real-life simulations. For some students, it’s a matter of family pride. Dirigo sophomore […]
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Bakers wanted, tickets available NORWAY — The Friends of Norway Memorial Library will host their third annual spring chocolate event from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 5. This year the theme is “Ye Olde Chocolate Shoppe” and the public is invited to make a chocolate specialty for a chance to win a prize. Attendees […]
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Bird monitoring event March 27 BETHEL — A special event, “High-elevation Bird Monitoring in the Northeast: Tracking the Elusive for Conservation,” will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, at McLaughlin Auditorium, Gould Academy. The program, co-hosted with Mahoosuc Land Trust, is free and open to the public. Speaker Judith Scarl Judith is a […]
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Arnold G. Warner
1931 – 2013 AUGUSTA — Arnold Gregory Warner, 81, of Grover Hill Road, Bethel, longtime resident of Hancock Street, passed away on Thursday, March 21, at Togus. He was born in Rumford, on Sept. 25, 1931, a son of John and Helen (Shea) Warner. Arnold was a caring dad, grandpa and husband, who died after […]
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Fly Fishing Expo reels in anglers in Bethel
BETHEL — For the second year in a row, hosts of the Western Maine Fly Fishing Expo reeled in large crowds of anglers of all ages. The traditional day to start open-water fishing was nine days away and it still felt like mid-winter. Wind chill temperatures outside The Bethel Inn Conference Center venue ranged from […]
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Region 9 vocational budgets get two hearings
MEXICO — Public hearings on the proposed Vocational Region 9 budgets for secondary education and adult and community education were held in Bethel and Mexico on Wednesday night with few in attendance. Region 9 School of Applied Technology director Brenda Gammon and several board members presented the $2,115,858 secondary budget and $312,055 Adult and Community […]
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Sweet outing
The Goose Eye Farm, home to Bruce, Suzanne, Hannah and Reece Pierce, hosted the year-end event of the Bethel Outing Club’s Bill Koch Kids Cross Country Ski League on St. Patrick’s Day. About 20 parents and kids participated in a scavenger hunt on skis to find letters hidden in containers throughout the cross country trails. […]
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Mollyockett Day request, dam repairs among items to be considered at town meeting
WOODSTOCK — A request from the Bethel Chamber of Commerce for Woodstock to raise and appropriate $1,596 will be among the items discussed at Woodstock’s annual town meeting at 7 p.m. March 25. According to the town warrant, the $1,596 will go toward helping Bethel fund Mollyockett Day, an annual festival in Bethel that celebrates […]
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Bethel Historical Society has received council grant
BETHEL — The Bethel Historical Society has announced that it has received a $500 grant from the Maine Humanities Council in support of its 2013 Lecture Series, “Trails, Trials and Tourism: Capturing the Maine Experience.” Among the programs supported by the grant will be the society’s annual History Symposium on April 13, a gallery talk […]
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Catherine L. McMillin
NORWAY — Catherine L. McMillin, 91, of Bethel, passed away March 16, at Norway Rehabilitation and Living Center with her niece Patty Marie and dear friend Jeanne Boelsma at her side. Kay was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, Sept. 26, 1921, to John and Virginia Edgerly McMillin. She graduated from Gould Academy in […]