BETHEL — Droplets of semi-frozen wind-blown water noisily plopped atop ice-covered snow late Tuesday afternoon around the base of this town’s attempt to create a 140-foot-tall tower of ice for next month’s winter festival. By 4:25 p.m., the temperature at the Bethel Station venue was 22 degrees F. and starting to fall. In the fading […]
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Office closing
BETHEL — In observance of Christmas, the town office will close at noon on Thursday, Dec. 23, and reopen Monday, Dec. 27.
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New deputy hired to patrol Bethel
PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Department’s newest deputy is back from Afghanistan and ready to patrol the streets of Bethel. Matthew Noyes of Rumford, until recently a corporal with the Rumford Police Department, will be focusing on Bethel at night. Noyes, 29, served six years with the Rumford police. Before that, he was an […]
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Giant ice tower planned for Bethel Winterfest
BETHEL — This Western Maine community, which holds two world records for building the tallest snowman and snow-woman, will attempt another such engineering marvel for the annual winter festival. But instead of building snow people, like the 113-foot snowman completed in 1999, or 2008’s 122-foot snow-woman, they plan to build a 140- to 149-foot tower […]
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Bethel charged $2K for water to build 149-foot ice tower
BETHEL — Provided that temperatures remain at or below freezing this month and next, and the Bethel Regional Chamber of Commerce can raise $2,000 in that time, the town will host to a 149-foot mountain of ice next month. That spiky spectacle, which will be built in Bethel Station across from the chamber, is the […]
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Planners to continue work on Manzer asphalt plant
BETHEL — At Wednesday’s meeting at 7 p.m. in the town office, the Bethel Planning Board may approve the relocation of a hot mix asphalt plant on North Road, despite many objections raised at previous meetings concerning noxious odors, heavy truck traffic and noise. Bruce A. Manzer, who owns the Bruce A. Manzer Inc. Bethel […]
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Bethel Chamber of Commerce proposes 150-foot Winterfest Ice Mountain
It might not be a “looker” itself, like the snowman in 1999 and his female counterpart almost a decade later, but like both its winter-attraction predecessors it should attract plenty of “looker people” (in the words of Robin Zinchuck) to Bethel. “It” in this case would be a 150-foot-tall ice mountain, the envisioned centerpiece of […]
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Seniors to meet BETHEL — The Bethel Senior Citizens Club will gather at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 8, at the Bethel Inn for a meeting and dinner. The price for dinner is $10 for members and $12 for nonmembers. Reservations must be made before noon Monday, Dec. 6, by calling Nancy at 824-3350 or Arlene […]
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Fourth annual Bethel Area Business, Home EXPO gears up for sell out
BETHEL — Nearly three dozen companies have registered for the fourth annual Bethel Area Business and Home EXPO on Dec. 4. It will be held in the Telstar High School gymnasium off Route 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “The Expo offers lots of fun opportunities to interact with local and western Maine businesses […]