BETHEL – Seabury Lyon got an unexpected surprise Sunday after helping a group of Cub Scouts build a condominium for bats.
The large triangular structure, a Registered Bat Conservation Project abode, was fitted into the town’s covered bridge replica on the Bethel pathway.
Lyon, Bethel’s bat expert, beamed from ear to ear after the Wolf Den of Bethel’s Cub Scout Pack 566 presented him with a signed covered bridge model they built from Popsicle sticks. Adorning the model were several little bats attached to wires glued to the bridge to simulate the tiny furred mammals in flight.
Route 2 work
GILEAD – At Gilead’s town meeting two weeks ago, Selectman Arthur “Joe” Taylor initiated a petition drive.
Fed up with how badly deteriorated a 5-mile stretch of Route 2 has become, Taylor simply sought to prod the Maine Department of Transportation into action.
The document noted that Gilead residents and other concerned area citizens were petitioning MDOT, asking that they repave Route 2 from a quarter mile east of the Maine-New Hampshire line to the end of Taylor Flats.
“This is a piece of road that can’t wait until 2008 or 2010 when it’s proposed to be completely reconstructed,” Taylor said, reading from the petition. “We’re not asking for a high grade of pavement. This piece of road is so broken up, it takes loads of cold patch every time it rains. It gets worse every year.”
Taylor said the last time the state paved the road was in the late 1980s.
“It just gets worse and worse every year every time it rains in the spring. It’s ridiculous that they continue to dump loads and loads of cold patch on it,” he added.
Maple Syrup Contest starts Friday
DIXFIELD – Judging of this season’s Homemade Maple Syrup Contest at Towle’s Hardware on Weld Street, is slated to begin at 11 a.m. Friday, April 11.
Although the event, part of Dixfield’s Bicentennial celebration, got off to a slow start last month thanks to Maine’s fickle weather, several sweet and sticky entries that have since poured in will test the taste buds of judges.
-Terry Karkos
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