• Saunders Mill's new owners plan greater economic and energy efficiency

    Feeding end of rolling pin finisher--Louise Jonaitis, co-owner of the former Saunders Brothers mill in Locke Mills, shows where rolling-pin blanks (stacked right) start their journey on the machine where they are sanded twice (coarse, then fine) and sealed with natural wax. Last year Saunders Bro... xx
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  • Upton celebrates Sesquicentennial

    Several dozen quilts were on display at the Upton Church as part of the town's 150th anniversary celebration. xx
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  • Rock creates hard feelings in Hanover

    After a summer of debate over the future of a very large rock that sits next to the Howard Pond Road in Hanover, could the solution be to move it? Louise Jonaitis, who represents one party in the controversy, thinks it’s an option. The rock first landed on a town agenda last s... xx
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  • BWD receives large grant, loan for West Bethel system

    The Bethel Water District has received approval for a $278,000 loan and $215,000 grant to connect West Bethel with the BWD’s main system, according to a press release from Rep. Mike Michaud’s office. In recent years the roughly 60 BWD customers in West Bethel have had problems ... xx
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  • Fire marshal investigating suspicious fires in Albany

    When firefighters arrived at a fire scene on Albany’s Patte Brook Road Saturday night, they found two adjacent camps and their outbuildings burned uniformly flat to the ground. That circumstance, combined with several others, made the blaze suspicious, said Bethel Fire Chief Mike Jod... xx
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  • Bethel Water District approved for $493,000 in grants/loans

    POSTED AUG. 19-USDA Rural Development  has approved a $278,000 loan and $215,000 grant for the Bethel Water District, according to a press release from Congressman Mike Michaud. The funds will be used to provide additional facilities to increase the supply of water as well as ensure improved... xx
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  • New mill owners aim to make Locke Mills 'The Rolling Pin Capital of New England'

    POSTED AUG. 19-“Maine can't live off blueberries and lobster,” said Louise Jonaitis, one of the new owners of the Saunders Brothers mill in Locke Mills, but we have wood, the mills to work it, and the experienced workers who know how. Jonaitis and her partner in the venture, St... xx
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  • Store's move brightens Bryant Pond village

    MONDAY WAS A BLUR OF ACTION at the former Village Store in Bryant Pond, as Bob Breau (gray T-shirt), family, friends and other workers hurried to prepare for the store’s reopening today as the new location for Breau’s ‘Too.’ Here Bob, his wife, Cathy, (yellow shirt) and br... xx
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  • Goat Support Team showed Nancy Young their love

    POSTED AUG. 19-Nancy Bailey Young, the much-loved secretary of the Crescent Park Elementary School, lost her six-year battle with cancer Monday. But during her final weeks this summer, through a T-shirt and bracelet campaign carried out over Facebook, hundreds of people in the Bethel commu... xx
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  • Summer class teaches hands-on history

    POSTED AUG. 19-In late June six Telstar High School students enrolled in a summer history class to earn one and a half credits. For several, it was not high on their list for how to spend summer. “It felt like back to school already,” said one. But this was not an ordina... xx
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