Cleaning the banks of the Androscoggin

WEST BETHEL — A small band of volunteers cleaned the banks and islands of the Androscoggin in the pouring rain this week. Garin Martin led the group that included Barbara Martin and Stacy Day, both of Bethel, and Brenda VanDecker, of Otisfield.  Doug Schneider, of Texas and Mike Errington of Florida, both work campers, chauffeured […]

Bethel Summerfest right around the corner

BETHEL — The Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce staff, Jessie Perkins, John Walker and Cathy Howe, are hard at work planning and continuing a tradition that started 75 years ago. Bethel’s Summerfest will be held July 15. While it is the second year as Summerfest, the event has been happening since 1948 when it began […]

District exchange to return with combined food pantry

BETHEL — Executive Director Dave Bean of Bethel Area District Exchange and Food Pantry said they have purchased the buildings at 279 Walkers Mills Road in Bethel, directly across the street from Telstar Middle/High School on Route 26. “We will be relying heavily on help from local contractors, community support, and fundraising to complete this […]

Photo: Hanging out at Davis Park

See the photos from Telstar’s graduation

In a speech called “Ten Things I wished Somebody had Told Me When I Was 18,” Special Guest Speaker Senator Angus King told the 2023 graduates to take more risks and not to “put anything on the internet that you don’t want your grandmother to see on the front of the newspaper.”

Meet the couple that own the Skoolie in Andover

Alice Averdeen and Jared Brown of New Jersey are spending the next few months in Andover living out of a converted school bus.

Telstar Freshman Academy students paint a heavenly view at Bethel Public Library

BETHEL — Four students enrolled in the Telstar Freshmen Academy are paying it forward with a mural titled “Celestial Skyscape” painted on a wall at the Bethel Public Library. “We came up with this on our own,” Dylan van Buren said. “We always knew we wanted to do the sun and the moon kind of […]

Bethel voters oust two selectmen

BETHEL — Select Board Chairman Lloyd Sweetser and member Lori Swain were defeated in their bids for reelection Tuesday. Michele Cole unseated Sweetser, 195-147, while Sarah Southam defeated Swain, 194-53. Running unopposed for two three-year assessor seats were Robert Blake, who received 269 votes, and Michele Cole, who had 250. Also running unopposed for a […]

Albany man sells 200 acres of land to Mahoosuc Land Trust for conservation

BETHEL — When Ken Wille was a child the forest was his savior. “It is a sense of being and a sense of place… You can’t pick it up from reading about it or watching TV. It’s a whole different thing to feel the cold, feel the rocks, the mosses, the decades of leaves under […]

Trinity Noll paddle boarder extraordinaire

BETHEL — Trinity Noll Wall was a competitive snowboarder when she attended Telstar in the early nineties. But more recently has taken on the rapids of Colorado. For the past eight years in a row, Noll has taken first place in the 2023 Women’s White Water 6 Race series in Vail, Colorado. This past Saturday,  […]