BETHEL — The Northern Forest Center, the nonprofit organization redeveloping the historic Gehring House on Broad Street in Bethel, is accepting rental applications for the new apartments. Leases are expected to begin in May. Application guidelines and form available at on this website: https://northernforest.org/now-leasing-apartments-in-bethel-maine/ The building includes nine apartments on three levels. Each has been […]
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Region 9 buildings still closed due to inadequate water supply
The welding building and culinary arts buildings were completed in January.
Bethel area bars and cafes will compete in a mocktail/cocktail competition in April
The Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce is organizing the contest that will be judged by area patrons.
Summerfest to be called Molly Ockett Day again
The annual festival had been renamed Summerfest in 2020 after fifty years as Molly Ockett Day.
Newry Appeals Board sends Timberline condominium plans back to Planning Board
Plans for the proposed project at 9 Timberline Drive near Sunday River Ski Resort were criticized for “inadequate information.”
Western Foothills school officials look to cut proposed 16% budget increase
Superintendent Deb Alden said the district has already made some reductions, and is aiming for an 8% increase.
DiFillipo takes the plunge as Hanover’s newest select board member
HANOVER — “I had never done anything like this. It was out of the blue that Town Manager Kelly [Harrington] asked me,” Marilyn Difillipo, Hanover new select board member was saying. At the Hanover Town Meeting in October where she was elected without opposition she was surprised about the length of the term. “I didn’t […]
Bethel Transfer Station plan presented to committee
The Interlocal Solid Waste Transfer Station Committee met again in a long-running saga, spanning multiple years, with a rotating cast of town managers and select board members from Bethel, Hanover and Newry taking turns at the table. Bethel Town Manager Sharon Jackson, who has hammered out an updated agreement, is determined to finally finalize the […]
Rumford-based district needs 7 more ed techs and part-time nurse
Math and science teachers are hired for Buckfield and Mexico schools.
Teachers union files grievance on student violence in Rumford-based school district
Forty-six staff members have been injured so far this year at Rumford, Mexico and Sumner elementary schools, the document says.