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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PublishedApril 29, 2015
Augusta man convicted of ninth drunken driving charge
Peter J. Dubord, 54, was taken into custody immediately after being found guilty in Kennebec County Superior Court.
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PublishedApril 28, 2015
Manslaughter charges dropped against driver who caused double-fatal Winthrop crash
Jeffrey Ray, of Scarborough, apologized in court to family of Napoleon and Patricia St. Laurent, who were killed in the 2013 crash.
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PublishedApril 27, 2015
Welfare fraud, child assault charges lead Kennebec indictments
A number of local people were indicted by the most recent session of the Kennebec County grand jury.
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PublishedApril 27, 2015
J&S Oil in Manchester loses court claim against insurer
The company sought to collect oil spill damages from its commercial auto policy, but a judge ruled against the company last week.
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PublishedApril 26, 2015
Capital Judicial Center’s ceremonial opening delayed to September
The new courthouse in Augusta is still getting furniture, more parking, and a connector to the large courtroom in the county courthouse.
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PublishedApril 26, 2015
Sheep-shearing students work on live animals at Washington farm
The lessons took place on a small platform outside the barn at Nanne Kennedy’s Seacolors Yarnery at Meadowcroft Farm on Hopkins Road.
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PublishedApril 25, 2015
Augusta conference tracks conversion of business to worker-owned cooperative
The story of the formation of Island Employee Cooperative Inc., was the topic of one of several sessions on cooperation among co-ops, held at Augusta’s Viles Arboretum.
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PublishedApril 24, 2015
Augusta teen club hopes to cook again at Buker Community Center
The Kennebec Leadership Institute is raising money for a commercial kitchen installation at the former middle school.
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PublishedApril 23, 2015
Rome taxes rising 25 percent
Selectmen blame school costs and a problem with funding a firetruck last year.
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PublishedApril 23, 2015
Chelsea assault charges result in hung jury
Randy L. Young, 37, was accused of strangling a woman he had been living with off and on.
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