Long meeting for new select board

BETHEL — The select board meeting on June 21 rivaled the recent town meeting in length – lasting over two hours. “We are doing a lot of housekeeping in the next few meetings,” said new Select Board Chair Meryl Kelly. Several clarifications, questions and suggestions prolonged the meeting. At the head table in town office […]

Bethel Legion post holds flag burning

Veterans pay tribute to the flags judged ‘unserviceable’ in the ceremony at the Mundt-Allen 81 American Legion Hall.

Rotary Club of Bethel providing leftover furniture to Lewiston immigrants and refugees

BETHEL — Every August the Rotary Club of Bethel holds a giant one-week yard sale, saving some unsold items for the following year and tossing most of the rest in an industrial trash bin. That changed last year when member Scott Parker met Adam Leff, who suggested they truck the leftover furniture to Maine Immigrant […]

Photo: Guarding the herbs

Photo: Superintendent David Murphy feted at ice cream social

Photo: Hangin’ on the Last Day

Greenwood’s Cummings Cemetery cleared

The restoration project has been taken up by Cummings’ descendants.

Photos: On Greenwood Road

Smooth sailing as all articles pass at Bethel’s town meeting

BETHEL — Ninety-four voters attended Bethel’s Annual Town Meeting held at Crescent Park Elementary School gymnasium Wednesday, June 14. Two new select board members, Sarah Southam and Michele Cole, sat in front of the stage at the head table with the other board members: Frank Del Duca, Meryl Kelly and Patricia McCartney. Also at the […]

Bisbee School committee wants community input

“We want input from people and we want to share our progress with people,” said Chair Bridget Remington, who is asking residents that sign up for the newsletter to share what would they like to see in the former school lot on Philbrook Street.