PARIS — A Maine Superior Court judge heard two impassioned pleas in the case against Kayla Day and Corey Emerson, Wednesday, June 7. One from Emerson’s mother and the other from victim Shelby Maniatty. Day and Emerson allegedly stole three cars, two shotguns and $11,000 in camera equipment in a spree over the course of […]
Rose Lincoln
Staff Writer
Rose Lincoln began as a staff writer and photographer at the Bethel Citizen in October 2022. She and her husband, Mick, and three children have been part time residents in Bethel for 30 years and are happy to now be here full time. Rose previously worked as a staff photographer at Harvard University and freelance photographer at the Boston Globe and at several Boston colleges.
She remembers fondly the start of her career as a staff photographer for a chain of weekly newspapers, surrounded by writers who vied to assign her to their town's stories. She next worked for several years at The Patriot Ledger, a daily in Quincy, Massachusetts. She has won several national and regional awards for her photography. Writing full stories (and not just cutlines for photos) is a new and exciting endeavor and she appreciates your patience as she tries to get it all right.
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Gould Academy graduated Memorial Day weekend
Gould Academy presented diplomas to 58 seniors at its 187th commencement on Saturday morning over Memorial Day weekend.
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Andover posts warrant for Saturday’s town meeting
ANDOVER — Andover Selectmen Brian Mills, Joe Luce and Justin Thacker have signed a warrant for Annual Town Meeting to be held Saturday, June 10, at Town Hall at 8 a.m. The town’s fiscal year 2023-24 municipal budget begins July 1. Some highlights include: • Article 12 which recommends $70,786 be raised and/or appropriated for […]
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Multiple cars stolen in Bethel, two charged
BETHEL — Corey Emerson, 41, was charged June 5 with possession of stolen property and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, VCR, Possession of firearm by unauthorized person, according to Sheriff Christopher Wainwright. Along with Emerson, Kayla Day, 35, was charged with three counts of unauthorized use of a Motor vehicle, Theft. Operating after revocation […]
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Hearts mending hearts
In March, the Chapman family lost their home and their pets. Not long after their devastating tragedy Donna Gillis, of Bethel, was contacted by teacher Amy Lilly who asked if they could coordinate on a caring gesture that would involve her class.
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Lewis sisters Poppy girls in Greenwood
GREENWOOD — Sisters Madeline and Lily Lewis were the Poppy Girls for the Jackson-Silver Post 68 American Legion in Greenwood this year. Lily was one of five Woodstock Elementary School 5th graders to read her Memorial Day essay at the Daughters of Union Veterans Memorial Day celebration. They are the daughters of Woodstock Deputy Clerk […]
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Sharing their mushroom mastery
BETHEL — When Amanda Moran of Newry was a child, she thought it was great when a friend showed her family how to forage for black trumpet mushrooms in their Biddeford backyard. Moran hung on to that memory and more recently became “kind of obsessed” about everything mushrooms. Initially she taught herself from an Audubon […]
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Garden Club islands are planted
BETHEL — There was a changing of the guard at the flower islands in town. Lida Isles, of the Bethel Garden Club, was handed the baton by Carol Nielsen about 15 years ago. Now Iles has handed it off to Betsy Raymond. “You think of a garden club as people who twist wire flowers together […]
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Cummings Plot Update
GREENWOOD — This June, Sue Nusbaum and a team of local people will begin to restore a destroyed cemetery across from the Greenwood Town Beach on Greenwood Road. (See Bethel Citizen story published April 20). A few years ago, while researching her family history Nusbaum discovered she has direct descendants in the Cummings Plot that […]