Last modified: Sunday, October 12, 2008 2:40 AM EDT Counting the hours in Foxboro BY FRANK MORTIMER SUN CHRONICLE STAFF FOXBORO A landmark clock tower is ringing again. The more than 150-year-old Bethany Church bell, silenced in recent weeks by a broken cable, began to sound out the hours last Friday afternoon. The tolling began the same day church volunteers and a clock specialist finished restoring the movement to two clock faces in the 138-foot tower on Rockhill Street. All four clock faces are now working, and the bell is counting out the hours - 24 hours a day, said Andy Neufell of Norton, a church member who worked on the clock and cables with Bethany Trustee Tim Maynard and clock repairman Philip D'Avanza. "They got complaints that the bell wasn't working, which is nice because in some towns they get complaints that a bell is annoying," Neufell said. The motion works for the north and west clock faces were rebuilt by D'Avanza at his shop in Manchester, N.H. Neufell said the problem with the bell was comparatively minor. A snapped cable was braided back together in just a few minutes. That part of the complete clock restoration was aided by donations made by members of the church and Foxboro community to the Bethany Church Clock and Steeple Fund. The fund was started in memory of Neufell's late father-in-law, Alan Hanna, who took care of the clock for many years, as his father, Archie Hanna, did before him. The main clock, which controls the four clock faces and the bell, still needs to be restored, Neufell said. He said that work will take place after this winter, as funds become available. When the major work is underway, the clock and the bell will be temporarily out of order again.