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The Age Friendly Community Initiative recently embarked on an ambitious program to reach out to older adults in our 6-town region. Thanks to the financial support of the Bethel Rotary Club, we sent out packets with a wide variety of items of interest, including wonderful contributions from students at the Eddy School, Telstar Freshman Academy and Gould Academy. We have received a grant from the Maine Community Foundation to continue this outreach through the coming year. If you haven’t received a packet, there are copies available in several area locations (the Bethel Family Health Center, the Bethel Foodliner, the Bethel Library and several other area sites).
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BETHEL The Mahoosuc Way, a new sustainable tourism initiative, was launched today by business, municipal and non-profit leaders in the region surrounding Bethel, Maine. The new group is promoting and encouraging residents and visitors to “Embrace Our Place” by taking a pledge to work together to protect the environment, quality of life and community vitality.
The Mahoosuc Way – Embrace Our Place pledge is designed to communicate local values to newcomers and visitors and to encourage collective action to protect and sustain the quality of place that makes the area an attractive place to live and visit. By taking the pledge, visitors and local residents express their commitment to behaviors rooted in five core values: Honor this Land; Explore Wisely; Show Respect; Cultivate Community; and Be Climate Conscious.
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Bethel has been an increasingly popular spot for people to visit, largely due to its many different outdoor recreation activities.
Bethel Citizen photo by Samuel Wheeler
BETHEL Last Wednesday, via Zoom, a group of business, municipal and non-profit leaders launched mahoosucway.com, and with it, the websites pledge to “embrace our place.”
The website said the pledge “helps us communicate our community values to newcomers and visitors.” The five major points of the pledge are to “honor the land, explore wisely, show respect, cultivate community and be climate conscious.”
“This pledge represents a new way of thinking about how locals and visitors alike can interact with our environment and community and its getting some attention at a level statewide and beyond as a leader,” executive director of the Bethel Chamber of Commerce, Jessie Perkins, said via Zoom. “We’re not the only ones concerned with tourism’s impact on our resources and we hope