BETHEL Select Board Chairman Lloyd Sweetser and member Lori Swain were defeated in their bids for reelection Tuesday. Michele Cole unseated Sweetser, 195-147, while Sarah Southam defeated Swain, 194-53. Running unopposed for two three-year assessor seats were Robert Blake, who received 269 votes, and Michele Cole, who had 250. Also running unopposed for a […]
BETHEL Four candidates will face off in the race for two select board positions. Incumbents Lloyd Sweetser and Lori Swain will fight to hold onto their seats, while newcomers Sarah Southam and Michele Cole will try to unseat them in the June election. Danna Wilson, while on the ballot, has decided not to run. […]
BETHEL Four Bethel select board members voted to leave the proposed short term rental ordinance on the floor of the editing room. It will not be brought forward to a public hearing on May 15 nor will it be on this year’s town meeting warrant. Only Select Board Member Lori Swain voted to move […]
BETHEL On Friday night 26 voters approved $3.4M to upgrade Bethel’s failing wastewater treatment plant. Select board members Frank Del Duca, Meryl Kelly, Patricia McCartney, Lori Swain, and Chairman Lloyd Sweetser, along with Town Manager Natalie Andrews and Assistant Town Manager Amy Hanscom all sat at the front desk with 30 voters in attendance […]