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Hanover Town Meeting to be held Oct. 24
HANOVER — The Town of Hanover’s town meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at The Gem Theater, 48 Cross St., Bethel. There are 35 articles on the warrant. Articles ask voters to approve fees, salaries and town maintenance monies. Voters will choose Frank Morrison or someone else to fill his three-year-term for […]
Livermore Falls to close Town Office on Nov. 7 for statewide voting
Voting will be held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Nov. 7 at the Fire Station.
Two arrests made following transfer station burglaries
There were about two dozen break-ins at the Bethel Transfer Station during the summer and fall.
Bethel select board will begin interviews for new town manager
BETHEL — Toward the end of its Oct. 11 meeting the selectboard decided not to enter executive session as planned. Instead it talked publicly about a timeline for hiring a new town manager and voted to enter executive session at its next meeting on Oct. 18 to read applications. Selectboard Chair Meryl Kelly said there […]
SAD 17 directors approve strategic plan for school district
PARIS — Maine School Administrative District 17’s school board unanimously approved a three-year strategic plan Monday following its presentation by Superintendent Heather Manchester. This marks the first time since 2013 that SAD 17 has updated its overall mission for educating its 3,200 students. The process of overhauling the plan started about five years ago but […]
North Livermore Baptist Church
NO. LIVERMORE — At the Oct. 15, North Livermore Baptist Church service, the congregation was welcomed by Pastor Bonnie Higgins at 9:30 a.m. to begin the service. The Invocation/Lord’s Prayer were recited. The hymns that were sung were “I Know Whom I Have Believed”, “The Solid Rock” and “Because He Lives”. The service ended with […]
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Suppers JAY — Frank L. Mitchell VFW Post 3335, 64 Jewell St., Post 3335 take out suppers. This month will feature comfort foods. This week, the menu for Oct. 20 will be homemade baked beans, red hot dogs, cole slaw, brown bread, chocolate cake $12. Serving starts at 5 p.m. Please call ahead to reserve […]
Emerson Whitney at UMF Visiting Writer Series
FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington’s celebrated Visiting Writers Series is excited to present memoirist and poet Emerson Whitney as the popular program’s second reader of the 2023/24 season. Whitney will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, October 19, 2023, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading […]
UMF presents ‘Martha Miller: A Retrospective’
FARMINGTON —The UMF Art Gallery is pleased to present “Martha Miller: A Retrospective” as its next exhibit from Oct. 12 to Nov. 12, 2023. It is free and open to the public. An opening reception will be held Thursday, Oct. 12 from 4-7 p.m. This vibrant retrospective exhibition documents the past 20 years of Martha Miller’s extraordinarily […]