Sunday River will join Newry to study ski traffic

The highway traffic study will take place during the winter of 2023/24 and is a condition of approval by Newry Planning Board for replacement of Sunday River’s Barker chairlift this summer.

Fundraising for Jewell family at Northern Roots

GREENWOOD — Manager Andrew Raymond of Northern Roots, 9 Bird Hill Road said they are accepting money and supplies for Mike Jewell and his daughter Meagan, 21, who lost their Greenwood home in a fire. Already someone has offered a brand new shower and toilet. “We have a place to store those kinds of donations […]

Flooding on area roads leads to detours, early school release

BETHEL — Maine Department of Transportation (DOT) workers, along with local highway workers and firefighters spent Monday morning and much of the beginning of the week dealing with flooding from a rainstorm that dropped a month’s worth of rain, between 3 and 5 inches, in 36 hours in the Bethel area. Town Office closed at […]

West Parish fundraises for new windows

BETHEL — A fundraising campaign is underway to replace the original 1840 windows in the West Parish Congregational Church at 32 Church Street in Bethel. Bagala Windows will eventually replace all of windows in the sanctuary of the church using historical glass and wood. Ted Davis, Steve Wight, Jane Chandler, Tim LeConey, and Bruce Pierce […]

Northern Forest Center adds FAQs

BETHEL — The Gehring House on Broad Street, being developed by Northern Forest Center, has added “frequently asked questions” or FAQs to their website at: https://northernforest.org/faqs-gehring–house-redevelopment-in-bethel-maine/. As the project continues, they will update the page with more information, said program manager Amy Scott.

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Peregrine spotted at Buck’s Ledge in Woodstock

WOODSTOCK — A peregrine falcon was sighted in the sky above Buck’s Ledge by Greenwood Select Board Chairman and avid hiker Amy Chapman on April 14. For confirmation and on the advice of raptor specialist Erin Call of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Marcel Polak played a recording of a peregrine falcon […]

Eliot List hopes to share Italy with others

BETHEL — Eliot List grew up on Morning Glory Farm on the Flat Road in West Bethel.  Starting in 2015, his parents invited WWOOFER’s (Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms) to stay with them each summer. Two or three people at a time work 25 hours a week in exchange for room and board. “I’m used […]

Family loses home in Greenwood fire

“I think my only option is to tear it down. There’s nothing salvageable there. The whole second floor is gone,” said Mike Jewell, noting that he may be able to save the attached barn.