BETHEL – The Bethel Historical Society’s 30th annual Sudbury Canada Days will get under way on Friday, Aug. 7, with the 18th annual Hall Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the society’s Dr. Moses Mason House meeting room. The lecture will be delivered by H. Draper Hunt, PhD, Emeritus Professor, University of Southern Maine, on […]
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Grand Dérangement will bring its Acadian flair to Bethel
BETHEL — The award-winning Acadian music ensemble Grand Dérangement will bring its blend of Acadian, American, Celtic, French and even Broadway music to Gould Academy Thursday, April 30. Grand Dérangement hails from Acadia, specifically the Baie Sainte-Marie area of southwestern Nova Scotia. Its name means “great disturbance” and comes from the French name for the […]
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Moose permits announced at festival
BETHEL — Niilo Sillanpaa III, fresh off his second-place finish in a moose-calling competition at the Bethel Town Common, said he wasn’t going to stick around at the Bethel Moose Festival’s moose-hunting permit drawing to hear whether his name was called. He works as a moose-hunting guide in New Vineyard, and while he has applied […]
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Oxford County Sheriff’s Office calls
PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 242 calls from June 29 to July 5. Among them were: * At 10:34 a.m. July 5, Deputy Dani Welch was out of the area to investigate the report of a person driving a golf cart on Pequawket Trail (Route 113) in Brownfield. State police were […]
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Farmers’ markets in the area
A sure sign of warm weather is the reopening of farmers’ markets across the state, and there are plenty to visit in the area Maine.