A fence will prevent cars from driving over the Route 5 cemetery where his two children are buried.
Andover
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Latin Scholars number highest ever at Telstar High School
With 17 seniors out of 43 receiving a 3.3 or higher grade point average, Telstar High School Class of 2025, has recorded it’s highest number of Latin Scholars ever, according to Principal John Eliot.
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Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Chamber awarded tourism grant
BETHEL — The Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce was awarded $93,000 in the final round of funding from the Tourism Marketing and Development Program. This initiative, administered by the Maine Office of Tourism and backed by $2 million in federal funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration, was designed to support Maine’s travel and tourism […]
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Historic home razed in wind-swept fire in Rumford
Winds reportedly gusting to 40 mph carried embers that started a second fire at 33 Franklin St., the site of the Waldo Pettingill House, built in 1891. Pettingill was the first president of Oxford Paper Co.
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Summerfest to be called Molly Ockett Day again
The annual festival had been renamed Summerfest in 2020 after fifty years as Molly Ockett Day.
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
East Andover Road’s junk cars prompt talk of junk yard ordinance
Several junk cars on a private property are within 250 feet of the Ellis River, prompting environmental concerns
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Andover Town Manager position will be decided at Special Town Meeting April 12
The Select Board to work directly with the Town Manager. However, positions such as town clerk, treasurer, tax collector, secretary, registrar of voters and road commissioner would be eliminated and those duties shared by the town manager and assistant town manager.
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Blind Sulky Races coming to Andover Olde Home Days; Fender guitar in the raffle
The popular festival now in it’s 49th year, will be held Aug. 1, 2, and 3 with a theme of “Andover, Then and Now”
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Maine Adaptive’s fundraising event returns to Newry March 23
The Ski-A-Thon brings over 150 skiers to Sunday River.