Belgrade, one of five towns in RSU 18, which also includes China, Oakland, Sidney and Rome, has considered the issue informally before in response to the town’s rising education costs.
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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Readfield man wins $131,000 in crash lawsuit
A jury in Augusta awarded compensation for injuries resulting from a July 2014 crash on Western Avenue.
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Mount Vernon’s Town Meeting scheduled for Saturday
The town’s overall budget — which includes the school cost — is up 5.45 percent.
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Readfield voters approve all items on the annual town warrant
Funding for the historic Readfield Union Meeting House and the transfer station agreement were both approved.
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2 in Augusta Walmart parking lot gunfire flurry indicted on federal drug charges
They and eight others are charged with conspiring to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine in central Maine.
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Fayette voters to gather Saturday to handle school, town budget items
Selectmen, school and budget committee members differ on school spending amounts.
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Record-breaking heat sends younger schoolchildren home early in Augusta
The temperature reached 91 on Monday, with ‘very warm and increasingly humid air’ in the region, according to the National Weather Service.
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Monmouth Academy, community send 50 seniors into the world
Among them was the principal’s son Avery Amero.
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Gardiner Area High School sends out 134 seniors, waves goodbye to retiring teachers, nurse
The commencement ceremony took place Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center.
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Messalonskee awards 151 diplomas as seniors remember Cassidy Charette
The commencement ceremony was held Thursday at the Augusta Civic Center.