NEWRY — Wednesday’s snowstorm isn’t expected to drop more than 6 inches across western Maine. But that may be enough to reopen Nordic ski centers in Newry, Bethel and Oxford that closed this month due to a snow shortage and warm temperatures. “There are a bunch of different reports being forecast, but our weather contacts […]
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Babysitter training offered at Telstar
BETHEL — Girl Scouts of Maine will offer “Babysitting 101” training for girls in grades five to eight from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Mondays, Jan. 24 and 31, at Telstar Middle School The program will include getting a baby-sitting business started, playtime ideas for children of all ages, understanding the likes and dislikes of children, […]
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Special meeting needed to reappoint 2 Bethel appellate board members
BETHEL — Selectmen will convene a special board meeting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, in the town office to reappoint two Board of Appeals members. Town Manager James Doar said Wednesday by email that the board needs to reappoint Chairmen Mike O’Donnell and Wende Gray, whose terms expire on Friday, Dec. 31. No one […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills, The Franklin Journal
New Year’s Bethel lineup includes parade
BETHEL — Organizers hope they’ll attract up to 150 people for New Year’s at the Bethel Historical Society on New Year’s Eve, Randy Bennett, society executive director, said Tuesday morning. The venue for the free event, which is from 5 to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 31, is at the Dr. Moses Mason House at […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills, The Franklin Journal
Winterfest ice tower at 20 feet and growing
BETHEL — Droplets of semi-frozen wind-blown water noisily plopped atop ice-covered snow late Tuesday afternoon around the base of this town’s attempt to create a 140-foot-tall tower of ice for next month’s winter festival. By 4:25 p.m., the temperature at the Bethel Station venue was 22 degrees F. and starting to fall. In the fading […]
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Office closing
BETHEL — In observance of Christmas, the town office will close at noon on Thursday, Dec. 23, and reopen Monday, Dec. 27.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills, River Valley
New deputy hired to patrol Bethel
PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Department’s newest deputy is back from Afghanistan and ready to patrol the streets of Bethel. Matthew Noyes of Rumford, until recently a corporal with the Rumford Police Department, will be focusing on Bethel at night. Noyes, 29, served six years with the Rumford police. Before that, he was an […]
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Giant ice tower planned for Bethel Winterfest
BETHEL — This Western Maine community, which holds two world records for building the tallest snowman and snow-woman, will attempt another such engineering marvel for the annual winter festival. But instead of building snow people, like the 113-foot snowman completed in 1999, or 2008’s 122-foot snow-woman, they plan to build a 140- to 149-foot tower […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Bethel charged $2K for water to build 149-foot ice tower
BETHEL — Provided that temperatures remain at or below freezing this month and next, and the Bethel Regional Chamber of Commerce can raise $2,000 in that time, the town will host to a 149-foot mountain of ice next month. That spiky spectacle, which will be built in Bethel Station across from the chamber, is the […]