To the Editor:

Forty years ago after graduating from Telstar and then college I thought it would be nice to start a business and raise a family in Bethel.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think that one day I would wake up and it would be illegal to use a plastic bag but okay to open a shop selling a federally illegal drug (pot).  I think the Town of Bethel has got its priorities backwards.

On the bright side, perhaps the Chamber of Commerce can promote a new  marketing slogan, “Bethel, the prettiest mountain town in Western Maine, where you don’t have to climb a mountain to get high.”

Unfortunately, Bethel is changing.

Rick Whitney
Bethel