To the Editor: The 7th Annual Bethel Rotary 5K Run/Walk and One mile youth run, held this past Sunday, was a tremendous success due to the support of sponsors, participants, spectators and volunteers. A special thanks to HealthReach Community Health Centers for their Presenting Sponsorship for this, their seventh consecutive year. In addition to the […]

To the Editor: Congressman Jared Golden accomplished so much for Maine in two terms – vote for him to keep working on valuable issues and common-sense solutions: clean up corruption, expand healthcare, support seniors, boost workers and create good jobs, serve veterans and defend our environment. Jared fought corruption with the For the People Act. […]

To the Editor: This past summer, the Bethel Outing Club offered an 8 week Summer Mountain Bike Series that was free and open to riders of all ages and abilities. Riders could show up Monday evenings between 4 and 6 p.m. and get timed on any or all three of the trails at Gould Academy’s […]

To the Editor: Each year, the Bethel Rotary Club commits itself to help make our communities better places to live, work, and play. The annual Rotary 5K and 1 mile, which has existed for 7 years, has raised more than $35,000 to invest, specifically, into helping the youth of the Bethel area access after-school and […]

To the Editor: Healthy exercise, enjoying our beautiful trails, and raising funds for after-school and enrichment programming for Bethel area youth are all goals of the upcoming Bethel Rotary 5K run/walk and one-mile run for youth. There is still time to register for this fun event, which is scheduled for Sunday morning, Sept. 18, with the […]

To the Editor: The Bethel Ambulance Service would like to welcome everyone in the community to come for our open house on Saturday, September 17 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. We will give tours of our station and ambulances, be on hand to answer questions, and provide some tasty treats. We are hoping people […]

To the Editor: President Biden’s “proof” of Trump’s mega “maga-ism” found in the “small truckload” of documents seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida turned out to be anything but. To prove that Trump’s documents contained classified information, the “juvenile” Biden administration released page after page of “redacted” Trump documents. Oddly, the released documents were […]

To the Editor: Jane Moosbruker’s Letter to the Editor regarding the elimination of Frog Jumping contests was timely and critically important for us, the children of the future, and the fate of amphibians. Why? Frogs and toads breathe through gills as tadpoles and as adults, they develop lungs. They are our ‘canaries in the coal […]

To the Editor: Sadly, our town has lost a quiet, unassuming woman, Sandra Frye, who passed away recently. Sandra owned and operated the Chapman Inn until the pandemic damaged her tourist-dependent business. I feel her loss because she and her late partner, Fred Nolte, very generously allowed the Bethel Garden Club volunteers to hook up […]

To the Editor: I want to urge the people who run the Bethel Festival to eliminate any attempt to have a Frog Jumping contest in the future. I understand they didn’t have enough frogs available this year and that is because they are winking out. We need to save them, not race them. There is […]