The town pays the district an estimated $17,600 each year per student and some wonder whether withdrawing would be prudent.
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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Comfort’s in the bag for Augusta area cancer patients
A little sack of goodies can ease the ordeal of a lengthy chemotherapy session, thanks to credit union boss Diana Winkley.
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China fracas about handgun, knife put woman behind bars
The girlfriend and boyfriend offered different accounts of the fight, which ended when the man drove to a friend’s house.
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Belgrade woman accused of stealing from pastor while he was at church
The homeowner, whom police identified as a local pastor, said he had given her $20 recently when she asked for help.
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Sidney man gets 50 years in prison for sexual assaults on 4-year-old
Eric L. Bard, 25, pleaded guilty to the charges about a year ago and a judge on Friday agreed with the state’s recommendation for prison time.
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Dinner party shooting nets Winthrop man 10-year prison term
After drinking coffee brandy in January 2014, Paul N. Coyne and Josh Belyea got into a tussle with a gun, resulting in Belyea being shot in the leg.
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Woman who robbed Manchester pharmacy sentenced to 12 months
Brooke L. Frost, now of Unity, initially claimed drug dealers forced her to commit the robbery.
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Augusta man accused of stabbing girlfriend to death to facing March trial
Justin E. Pillsbury is accused of murdering Jillian Jones in their apartment in 2013.
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Assault on Riverview nurse, three more assaults in jail bring 66-month prison term
The judge recommended that Frank C. Stewart Jr., 23, be placed in the prison’s special mental health unit.
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Widower files suit over pothole in 2014 Augusta motorcycle crash
Jared Nightingale, whose wife died in a crash after driving into a pothole, believes the city, state and a contractor are at fault for failing to repair the road.