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.
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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Bids to be given for restoration, road sand, more
HALLOWELL — Awarding a bid for restoration of the Dr. John Hubbard 1833 office will be one of the jobs for City Council at its meeting, 6 p.m. Monday at City Hall.
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Woman admits to burglarizing homes
AUGUSTA — A 29-year-old woman repeated “guilty” 48 times in Kennebec County Superior Court as she admitted burglarizing a number of home in 2009 and 2010 in Kennebec and Oxford counties.
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Woman guilty in dozens of thefts
AUGUSTA — A 29-year-old woman repeated “guilty” 48 times in Kennebec County Superior Court as she admitted burglarizing a number of home in 2009 and 2010 in Kennebec and Oxford counties.
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Embezzlement suspect lived as virtual ‘Queenie’
Bettysue Higgins, 53, of Gardiner, stands accused of embezzling $166,000 from the Maine Trial Lawyers Association during a four-year period.
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Portland man faces charges in jailtime unemployment
AUGUSTA — Allegedly collecting $3,000 in unemployment checks while serving a jail sentence has landed a Portland man in more legal trouble.
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School could be closed to solve budget problem
WINTHROP — Buildings, building wings, and just about everything else is on the table as the Winthrop Board of Education continues to work to trim some $1 million from the budget proposed for the upcoming year.
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‘Low-achieving’ label prompts board meeting
WALES — The board of education has set a special meeting 6:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss Oak Hill High School’s designation as a “persistently low-achieving school.”
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Suspect indicted in slaying of man who took him in
A grand jury indicts a 32-year-old Massachusetts man on a charge of murder in the Feb. 8 shooting death of Robert A. “Bobby” Orr of Readfield.
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Financing new regional hospital may be tricky
AUGUSTA — Borrowing the money to build new regional hospital is quite unlike borrowing the money to buy a home.