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Another THS grad to compete in the X Games
Posted July 8-Later this month Chris Duplessis of Gilead will become the second Telstar High School graduate to compete in the X Games. Duplessis will take part in the Rally Car Racing event during the July 29-August 1 Summer X Games, to be held in Los Angeles. A 2005 THS grad, he w... xx0 Comments -
Miss Mollyockett 1960 looks back 50 years
Fifty years ago, Grace Haines rode up Bethel's Main Street in a two-wheel, horse-drawn carriage. She was the very first Miss Mollyockett, on the first Mollyockett Day. Now Grace Haines-Kloock, she has lived most of her life in Oregon, where she works as an office manager. But... xx -
TMS Title I program aims for whole-school approach
Telstar Middle School students who need to improve their reading and math skills are currently receiving help from three Title I teachers. Two of those teachers are paid for by additional federal funds designated for the school because students overall were not making sufficient progress i... xx -
Board sends Bethel's last police officer off with thanks and bonus
Bethel's four decades of self-policing came to an end Wednesday afternoon. When his shift finished at 3, Lt. Shayne White, the Bethel Police Department's sole remaining officer, drove the BPD cruiser to the town garage, then returned in his own car to the Town Office, where he turned in hi... xx -
Looking Back
10 years ago: The national Trust for Public Land and the state of Maine were negotiating with Roy Newton to purchase 400 acres in Riley Township. The Newry Recreation Committee's annual outing to Storyland was enjoyed by 36 youngsters. A reunion of the scholars who attended the East... xx -
International pianists look forward to festival in Bethel
Posted July 1-Young pianists from around the world will study and perform at Gould Academy from July 2 to July 21 as part of “Music Without Borders,” an international piano festival now in its fourth year. The young musicians look forward to coming to Gould and Bethel, accordin... xx -
School Board opposes state's use of student Social Security numbers
Posted June 29-Concerned about the use of SAD 44 student Social Security numbers by the Maine Department of Education, the School Board Monday unanimously approved a resolution asking the Maine Legislature to rescind the law allowing the practice. The law is to take effect this fall. xx -
Local rescuers save woman from sinking car
Posted July 1-“My first impulse was to get the window down and get screaming,” said Millie Jackson. Last Thursday morning, Jackson, 84, was driving north on Route 26, returning home to Bethel after a blood test in Norway. But she apparently dozed off near the Greenwood/W... xx -
Bethel man arrested for criminal threatening with dangerous weapon
Posted June 28-A Bethel man was arrested at his Grover Hill home Sunday evening and charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. Oxford County Sheriff‘s Department Deputy Mike Parshall said Monday that a female caller reported at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday that she had been... xx -
A not-so-controlled cruise
Posted June 25-Bethel firefighter Andy Whitney, left, pulled Mildred Jackson, 84, from her car as it sank in Round Pond in Greenwood Thursday. Jackson (on stretcher), said later she believed she dozed off as she was driving on Route 26. Her car went into the water on the... xx