Purchase of air packs for West Paris Fire Department will be on March 4 warrant

The select board had agreed to purchase eight air tanks at $7,500 each over three years

Storm cleanup continues

BETHEL —  All was quiet Dec. 31, at the 12 homes on Jonathan Clark Road off West Bethel Road. Bethel Firefighters rescued nine people from the mobile home park during the storm that started Dec. 18. The road runs alongside a narrow tributary that flows into the Androscoggin River. It had overflowed displacing families. Scott […]

Newest library patron arriving this month

Library Director Kelcy Arciga of Bethel is due with her first child on Jan. 16.

Bethel Citizen Year In Review: Part II

July  Bethel’s first Pride Day, featuring three drag queens and organized by Telstar senior Keaton Cummings-Chapman sold out the Gem Theater. Several young people had to sit on the floor in front of the stage to open up seats for adults. Crafters and artists selling jewelry, watercolors and more crowded lobby. Other patrons had their […]

Resolve: to get out more in 2024

Photo: A dusting on Church Street

Yoga studio is a long time coming for owner and Bethel

After searching for a few years, Mary Kate Jamieson opened her studio at the end of October on Parkway Road.

Arlene Lowell, 96, works out everyday

The Bethel woman works out everyday out on the treadmill that her son got for her in a trade for a chainsaw.

Rumford farmers helped save couple from the Androscoggin River

Two motorists travelling north on Route 232 had driven into the water that had breached the banks of the river.

Storm ‘relief’ arrives in many ways

People across the region helped each other as best as they could.