Bethel News

Selectmen unanimously appointed Philip M. Tarr on Monday to be the next town manager.

United Insurance, headquartered in Falmouth, has acquired the Mexico Agency business of Northeast Bank Insurance Group located at 89 Main Street.

LifeFlight was called to a crash in the Bethel area involving two vehicles. Around 6:30 Friday night two vehicles were involved in a crash on Route 26 in Woodstock.

Scientists in UK have created the world's smallest snowman , which is one-fifth the width of human hair.

A Good Shepherd Food-Bank volunteer works at the bank's Auburn warehouse in 2008.

Cheers to Francis Dumont, a Bethel area builder and developer, who provided a balanced, level-headed account of a fist-fight at a local diner between another developer and the town code inspection officer.

Paris firefighters look over a 2008 Honda Fit involved in a collision on Route 26 on Friday afternoon.

A pair of houses on Route 26 were destroyed by fire early Tuesday, Nov. 16. Here firefighters from Woodstock and surrounding communities work to contain the blaze, which appears to have started in one home and spread to the neighboring building.

Jeffrey Tyler, a volunteer firefighter accused of setting a blaze that destroyed two houses, is led to Oxford County Superior Court on Wednesday.

BETHEL a ' A dispute at a local eatery ended when the town's code enforcement officer punched a local developer in the face, Town Manager Jim Doar said Thursday.

Another volunteer fire fighter in Maine has been charged with arson. 28-year-old Jeffrey A. Tyler of Bethel faces two counts of arson for fires that destroyed two vacant houses in western Maine.

State Police say they have charged a volunteer firefighter with two counts of arson in connection with overnight fires that destroyed two vacant houses in Locke Mills on Tuesday.

GREENWOOD, Maine a ' A volunteer firefighter has been charged with arson in connection with overnight fires that destroyed two vacant houses in western Maine.

WEST PARIS a ' The selectmen last Thursday agreed to join with local resident Carol Mills in studying the feasibility of erecting a skateboard park near the town office on Kingsbury Street.

Bertha May Flanders, 99, of South Paris, died on Nov. 13. She was born June 25, 1910, on Bird Hill in Bethel, the daughter of Charles and Ella Jordan.

PARIS a ' Attendance rates in the Oxford Hills School District have remained strong despite continuing outbreaks of flu-like symptoms among students and staff, an official said Thursday.

BETHEL a ' Oxford County Sheriff Wayne Gallant will meet with selectmen and the Budget Committee on Nov.

BETHEL a ' Selectmen could decide the future of the town's police force when the board meets at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov.

Wayne David DuPlessis, 57, of Bethel, died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. He was born Jan.

Midwest Price Co. chip truck driver Jamie Murphy, center, of Canton, talks with an unidentified man after the tractor-trailer Murphy was driving slammed into the Michael J. Mills Landscaping trailer at right at about 3:45 p.m. Thursday on Route 2 in Bethel.