The Mahoosuc Art and Agriculture Tour Sunday, September 12, 1-4 p.m. What tempting prepared meals you can purchase (featuring farm products)! A corn roast, wood-oven pizza, chili, and cornbread – and you may buy just-picked seasonal produce, frozen beef and pork, and dairy products, and you may pick your own flowers and pumpkins. Local artists […]
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Age Friendly Community Initiative
Isn’t our local Harvest Season just wonderful?. Remember that you may either donate or get surplus produce at either the vegetable stand on the former Nabo’s property or the Bethel library. Probably you’re enjoying our local farmers’ markets. And here’s a special opportunity to thank those local farmers and experience more of their farms: On […]
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Age-Friendly Community Initiative
Look for our new Fall/Winter AFCI flyers in many locations in our six member towns. Up-to-date information is also on our website www.agefriendlybethel.org. Did you receive our newly-revived monthly electronic newsletter a few days ago? If you think you’re on our mailing list and didn’t get it in your email inbox, it may have been […]
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Backyard Observations: Extinction is forever
Almost every day I spend a little time down in my field waist-high in the milkweed searching for caterpillars and hoping for the sight of a Monarch. This summer I have seen ten Monarchs in all and none have been spotted in my field. Of course, Monarchs don’t need to feed on milkweed nectar; they […]
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Energy Matters: Is Biomass a Climate Solution?
We write this column and call it Energy Matters because it does. Energy does matter. In fact, at this point in the history of life on Earth, it matters, arguably, more than just about anything. It matters because the human component of the planet community has gotten us into something of a predicament by fashioning […]
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Mahoosuc Bird Notes: Habitat for all
Watch birds long enough and you begin to notice how connected, how dependent birds are on the trees, insects, plants, soil, and water around them. It is these interconnected habitats that make our Western Maine forest so critical for the survival of a wide range of birds, animals, and plants. Understanding which birds live in […]
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Backyard Reflections: Doesn’t everyone love ferns?
We are deep into mid-summer with uncharacteristically cool temperatures and we are finally getting real rain, the first rainfalls of the season. When I look out my window or meander around the house I am immersed in the luscious deep green mantle created from the boughs of deciduous trees that surround my house. I am […]
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AFCI
The Age-Friendly Community Initiative is pleased to announce the award of two grants, enabling us to pursue two very different projects in our 6 member towns (Bethel, Gilead, Greenwood, Hanover, Newry and Woodstock). Funding from the Maine Community Foundation supports a new outreach to the older adult population of AFCI towns. We hope to give […]
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AFCI
Over 60 and need a ride? To a medical appointment? To run errands? To attend a social event? To attend an exercise class? To attend church? Or do you know someone who does? AFCI’s N2N (Neighbor-to-Neighbor) Transportation Program can help. Our drivers are eager to be out on the roads again and connecting with you. […]
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Our Back Pages
Looking Back 10 years ago: Twenty-two members of the Bethel Senior Citizens Club enjoyed a trip to Augusta. Sherri Cordwell of Gilead was the winner of the Mollyockett Medallion Treasure Hunt. Deaths: Robert S. Crane, Sr., Peter R. Hooper, Rev. Robert H. Plummer. 20 years ago: Friends and relatives gathered in Bethel to help Ersel […]