About 40 Bethel area players of varying levels show up to play regularly at one of four local courts.
Rose Lincoln
Staff Writer
Bethel Citizen writer and photographer Rose Lincoln lives in Bethel with her husband and a rotating cast of visiting dogs, family, and friends. A photojournalist for several years, she worked alongside many great writers, never fully appreciating what they do — until now.
Posted inMaine, News
Ed Swain’s island farm in Bethel may be the last one in western Maine
Gone are the many farmed islands that once dotted the Androscoggin River.
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Posted inMaine, News, Sports
Bethel’s Olympian Frankie Del Duca to compete in World Cup this week
At the final World Cup competition in Lake Placid, New York, the Telstar graduate will pilot four-man and two-man bobsleds.
Posted inMaine
MSAD 44 directors allow book to stay in library, despite complaint about content
After discussing whether or not “Me, and Earl, and the Dying Girl” is appropriate for middle school-age children, the board voted to keep it on shelves citing the First Amendment.
Posted inMaine, News
‘It always felt natural to do’: Oxford County snowplow driver started side job when he was 16
John Kimball has been plowing area roads and driveways since he got his license in the late 1960s.
Posted inMaine, News
‘It’s just amazing’: Bethel residents teaching immigrants English at Lewiston nonprofit
“Teaching English builds you up … you’re helping these people fit into a society and a culture that is so strange to them, it’s just amazing.” — Sharon Lyon of Bethel
Posted inNews
Fire chief fired in West Paris after 18 months on the job
Several firefighters spoke in defense of former Fire Chief Kevin Davis at Thursday night’s Board of Selectmen meeting, two days after Town Manager Joy Downing fired Davis.
Posted inMaine, News
Farm to table: Bethel woman driven by passion to get local products to customers
Meryl Kelly logs about 150 miles a week taking orders, picking them up at farms and delivering to restaurants and customers in western Maine.
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Albany man has lived off the grid for 50 years
With ingenuity and determination, Paul Hausman has worked hard to make his own way on a rural hillside in Albany Township.
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Harvesting cranberries in Maine not so tangible a task
Tracyn Thayer owns and operates Birch Bog Farm at 41 Dundee Road, Albany Township, one of Maine’s only organic cranberry farms. On Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the bog is open to pick your own, and/or to buy, “we-picked” berries.