Photos: Surrounded by fall color

Jewish Film Festival coming Nov. 5 to Bethel

BETHEL — On Sunday, Nov. 5 at 1:30 p.m. The Gem Theater, 48 Cross Street, will host a screening of a Maine Jewish Film Festival in Bethel. Maine Jewish Board Vice President Katie Getchell, of Bethel and her fellow Board Member Marcel Polak of Woodstock are organizing and funding the event that Getchell said is […]

‘Swifties’ belt it out at The Gem Theater

Bethel Area Arts and Music gets young singers on stage.

Tourists come to see moose, bridges, foliage and the Bethel Chamber of Commerce

Visitors stop in for directions, tips and brochures. And of course the restrooms.

Harvesting cranberries in Maine not so tangible a task

Tracyn Thayer owns and operates Birch Bog Farm at 41 Dundee Road, Albany Township, one of Maine’s only organic cranberry farms. On Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the bog is open to pick your own, and/or to buy, “we-picked” berries.

State referendum questions on Nov. 7 ballot

BETHEL —  There are eight state referendum questions on the Nov. 7 ballot. Bethel Town Clerk, Jessicca Grover, noted that the The Citizen’s Guide to the 2023 Maine Referendum Election is 62 pages long. She suggested people look at the on-line version, but said she will also have a copy available at town office. The […]

Telstar celebrates during homecoming week

BETHEL —  Telstar Student Council kicked off  Homecoming week with a pep rally on Tuesday. Homecoming games were played throughout the week. Girls and boys soccer played mid-week; and field hockey played on Friday. The football game and homecoming dance were on Sat., Oct. 14 with more than 100 students attending the dance. “Homecoming celebrates […]

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 […]

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 […]