Bethel News

Thirteen Gould Academy athletes traveling by bus on Saturday afternoon to a mountain-bike race at Carrabassett Valley Academy were shaken up but otherwise uninjured in a Route 2 accident.

The following arrests were recorded at the Oxford County Jail: Kirk Robert Hamel, 36, of Farmington, Sept.

The second meeting to develop a plan to merge SAD 44 in Bethel and School Union 37 in Rangeley will take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

Artwork by Rick Dennen of Bethel will be among the pieces put on the block Friday, Sept.

Jim Sparrell stands with his Model T. Jim Sparrell of Damariscotta is going to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Ford Model T in rain or shine.

Police on Friday arrested a Main Street woman and charged her with robbing a KeyBank employee at gunpoint on Thursday.

Maine State Police have made an arrest in their investigation of a bank robbery in Bethel.

Police are searching for a young woman who robbed a KeyBank assistant manager at gunpoint Thursday morning by forcing her to withdraw money from an ATM inside the bank.

Bethel police are investigating a robbery Thursday morning at the KeyBank at 96 Main Street.

Gary Wayne Freeman Jr. and Christina Ann Garvin were married at Glen House in Bethel on May 31, 2008, in the presence of close family and friends.

Hundreds of students from Oxford County schools spent Wednesday morning in an open-air classroom during Oxford Fair's annual Education Day.

"A Harvest of Local Talent" and "Celebrating the Olympic Spirit" are the general themes of the 11th annual Bethel Harvest Fest & Chowdah Cook-off scheduled for Sept.

As a bald eagle glided around a wooded corner of the Androscoggin River on Wednesday morning in Bethel, farmer John Carter stood on the opposite bank.

Patrons of the Funky Red Barn won't be playing horseshoes in the parking lot or drinking alcohol outside anytime soon.

An unoccupied house in a remote area of town was destroyed by fire shortly after midnight Wednesday.

Maine traditional folk band The Swampdonkeys will give a benefit concert for the Western Foothills Land Trust's Roberts Farm Preserve project at Caf Nomad Friday, Aug.

This latest video was filmed and edited by Carter Davidson and Gray Ghost Productions.

A Franklin County Building Committee appeared to be temporarily stunned Thursday when a Lewiston and Bethel-based architectural firm presented another preliminary facility-use concept to them.

The 29th annual Sudbury Canada Days, summer heritage festival of the Bethel Historical Society, will be held Aug.

Despite sweltering heat and humidity on Saturday, the annual Mollyockett Day festival drew hundreds of people of all ages into town for some old-fashioned fun.