BETHEL — The Bethel Library will offer the following events in August: • August 5: Summer Reading Participation Party The Gem and BAAM are hosting the Summer Reading Party! Prizes, Music, Pizza, and Crafts! @ Gem Theater, 10 a.m. -12 p.m. • August 8: Maine Mineral & Gem Museum Experience Staff from the Museum will […]
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Senior College Players need more members
BETHEL — Several Senior College Players of Western Mountain Senior College, Bethel, met to discuss possible plays for the upcoming season and found that more Players are needed. Anyone interested in theater or who likes to act is invited to join the theater group. Experience is not needed, members carry their own scripts on stage, […]
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Rotary awards scholarship
ANDOVER — At this week’s meeting of the Bethel Rotary Club, we presented a scholarship award to Virginia Owings from Andover. A home-schooled student, Virginia plans to head to Kimep University in Kazakhstan in the fall. She just returned from the National Youth Science Camp as well. We are quite certain that this young lady […]
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ARWC plans barrier assessment
AREA — The Androscoggin River Watershed Council (ARWC) plans to conduct a barrier assessment in the Ellis River Watershed during the summer and fall of 2023, starting in mid to late July. The Ellis River Watershed includes portions of Andover, Rumford, and Roxbury. The purpose of the assessment is to document conditions at road crossings […]
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Sale WEST PARIS – West Paris Public Library will hold an indoor yard sale on Saturday, July 22, from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. There will be household goods, books, and more! The sale will be at the West Paris Historical Society building at 221 Main Street, West Paris. The Historical Society building is nearby […]
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Library presents Bennett
LOVELL — On Thursday, August 3 at 7 p.m. there will be a presentation by Randall H. Bennett at the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library, entitled: ‘The Hastings Homestead Museum: Five Generations in the Making’. In a PowerPoint presentation, Randy will talk about the Homestead, which is in Bethel’s ‘Broad Street Historic District’ and has been […]
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Teen leadership program seeks to increase civic engagement
STATE — University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H is accepting applications for a new civic engagement program called Youth Have a Voice. This nine-month program is open to all Maine teens and recent high school graduates who are interested in taking a more active role in serving their local communities, the state, or the country. […]
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Researchers want to hear public opinion on moth control
STATE — Researchers at the University of Maine are seeking public input on browntail moth control methods. Devin Rowe, a Ph.D. student in the lab of UMaine forest entomologist Angela Mech, and McKenna Mollner, a master’s student in the lab of UMaine economist Mariano Teisl, developed the survey to help researchers, as well as government […]
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Old Home Day Flower Show set
ANDOVER — The Andover Historical Society has announced plans and the program for its 70th Flower Show, to be held on Olde Home Day weekend in their building on Elm Street. Adult participants will have 12 categories to enter while those age 12 and under may enter a dish garden for the Flat Rocks on […]
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Museums to host program on the Gehring Legacy
BETHEL — On Saturday, July 22, the Museums of the Bethel Historical Society and the Northern Forest Center will sponsor a day of programming in celebration of the Northern Forest Center’s acquisition of the Gehring House and the Museums of the Bethel Historical Society’s “Golden Age of the Gehring Clinic” exhibit. The Gehring House, constructed […]