To the Editor: One of the little girls who survived the brutal killing of children in Texas last week said she did that by smearing herself with the blood of a still-living child next to her, who didn’t survive. Let’s let that sink in. Then in the light of PTSD, let’s imagine that youngster’s future, […]

To the Editor: There are people who want to use guns to kill many; we consider them evil or mentally ill. We will never be able to identify and affect all these people. There are people who want to kill others because of the color of their skin and there are media stars that encourage […]

To the Editor: (and to my neighbors), I wish to announce my nomination to the Bethel Select Board. I have served on both Bethel’s Ordinance Review Committee and Planning Board, where I received an education into the inner workings of town policy and where our codebook could use support. As a Selectman, I will prioritize […]

To the Editor: My name is Billy Bob Faulkingham. I’m a state representative from Winter Harbor. Winter Harbor is a long way from western Maine, but it’s important to me who gets elected because it impacts my children’s future. That’s why I’m writing the voters of District 79, Paris, Sumner, West Paris, and Woodstock, to […]

To the Editor: Who would believe how far we’d fall in this short time? We went from John Wayne’s ‘True Grit’, to Don Knotts’ ‘Shakiest Gun in the West’. From prosperity, to calamity. Robustness…to near hopelessness. We need to right this ship. This experiment has blown up in our faces. It’s like 8th grade chemistry […]

To the Editor: I am a candidate for the MSAD 44 Board of Directors and I ask for your vote on June 14, or sooner if you choose to vote absentee at your town office ahead of election day. I have lived on Mechanic Street in Bethel for twenty-three years, during which time I have […]

To the Editor: Kudos to the Labonte Recovery Center in Rumford, the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office, and the Oxford County Mental Health Services’ OPTIONS Program for their collaborative distribution of harm reduction kits that provide life-saving information and resources to released inmates. Providing encouragement to people who have made mistakes in their lives with the […]

To the Editor: I am writing to announce my candidacy for Selectperson for the Town of Bethel. Many of you know my background and for those who don’t, I grew up in western Maine and am wholly familiar with our region. After completing a college internship at Sunday River and then graduating from the University […]

To the Editor: My name is Mark Hutchins, and I’m running for the SAD 44 School Board. I am a Bethel native who attended K-12 Bethel area schools. My kindergarten teacher was Ethel Bisbee (and she was the kindergarten teacher for both of my parents as well), Lainey Cross’s mother was my first-grade teacher and […]

To the Editor: Thank you to everyone who came out to help with Bethel’s Green Up Day on Saturday, May 7. We had over 53 people arrive ready to pick up litter along our roadsides. Great progress was made along The Parkway, Intervale Rd., Rt. 26, Rt. 5 and the North Rd. We were inspired […]