PALERMO — Hayley Blowers’ mom on Friday disputed rumors bullying caused her 16-year-old daughter’s April 4 suicide.
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.
Flipped truck blocks I-95 lane in Augusta
Emergency crews are working to right an 18-wheeler that rolled over about 6:40 a.m. today, blocking the southbound travel lane of Interstate 95.
Demeritt facing foreclosure woes
AUGUSTA — A top aide to Gov. Paul LePage is losing five buildings — including one destroyed by arson last week — to foreclosure.
LePage spokesman in foreclosure
AUGUSTA — A top aide to Gov. Paul LePage is losing five buildings — including one destroyed by arson last week — to foreclosure.
Man given 5 years for sex offenses
AUGUSTA — A Hallowell man will spend the next five years in prison for sex offenses committed 15 years ago.
Search leads to drug trafficking charges
SIDNEY — Two people face drug trafficking charges after deputies from the Kennebec Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant Tuesday at the Middle Road home that had been the target of a six-month investigation.
Winthrop, Fayette schools working to finalize budgets
The Fayette School Committee has arrived at a final budget proposal.
Panel backs claim of discrimination by transgender renter
AUGUSTA — A would-be tenant who claimed a landlord discriminated against her because of her transgender status won support Monday from a human rights panel.
Winthrop, Fayette plan dead in water
A plan for Winthrop and Fayette schools to use three top Regional School Unit 4 administrators is dead.
Funds running out for co-occuring court program
AUGUSTA — The graduation this week of five more people from the intensive supervision of a special court program proved bittersweet to the judge who has presided over it.