AUGUSTA — It appears the Maine Trial Lawyers Association will have to wait at least half a year to learn whether it can recoup $170,000 from a former bookkeeper.
Betty Adams
Betty Adams is a general assignment reporter who’s lived in Augusta for the past 35 years and been working for the Kennebec Journal for more than two decades. She covers the courts plus the towns of Belgrade, Fayette and Readfield.
As adjunct instructor Elizabeth Adams, she teaches writing courses, including journalism, at the University of Maine at Augusta.
In her spare time, when she’s not playing with the grandchildren, bicycling on the rail trail, snowshoeing or cross-country skiing, she likes to travel both in the United States and abroad via cruise ship and occasionally on the back of a motorcycle.
She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and earned a master’s of journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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Cameras catch Augusta arson suspect
AUGUSTA — A camera set up to track vandals gave police a bird’s-eye view of an alleged arson in progress late Friday and early Saturday.
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Camera records arson in progress, leads to arrest
AUGUSTA — A camera set up to track vandals gave police a bird’s-eye view of an alleged arson in progress late Friday and early Saturday.
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Civil Air Patrol cadets take flight
AUGUSTA — Sweat beading on his brow as he stood in the sun on the tarmac at the Augusta State Airport, Chris Trotter could not have been happier.
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Former fire captain found guilty
AUGUSTA — A former captain with the Augusta Fire Department left court in handcuffs Friday after a jury found him guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old girl at his home in Manchester between April 2007 and April 2008.
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Young pilots take to skies at academy
AUGUSTA — Sweat beading on his brow as he stood in the sun on the tarmac at the Augusta State Airport, Chris Trotter could not have been happier.
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Oak Hill High won’t seek federal aid
SABATTUS — Oak Hill High School won’t be seeking federal dollars in the form of a school improvement grant.
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Museum locates property
Organizers of a living history museum aimed at showing how native Americans once lived in Maine have found property in Gardiner where they hopes to erect a permanent village.
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Abramson to ease into retirement
READFIELD — The man who has headed the Maranacook school district for a decade will retire in June when he turns 62. But he’ll stay with the district for another year — working as superintendent under an interim agreement — as the board searches for his replacement.
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Remembering Hayley Blowers, ‘a pink girl in a sea of gray and black’
PALERMO — Hayley Blowers’ mom on Friday disputed rumors bullying caused her 16-year-old daughter’s April 4 suicide.