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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PublishedJuly 5, 2013
Swans to be tried separately on federal charges
Carole and Marshall Swan, a Chelsea couple accused together and separately of defrauding the federal government, will have separate trials, a judge has ruled.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2013
Officials continue probe into Augusta Fourth of July apartment house fire
Investigators on Friday were back at the scene of a Washington Street, Augusta apartment house fire apparently triggered by lightning Thursday night.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2013
Two Oakland women injured in Gardiner boat explosion
Vickie Massey and Liliane Davidson, both of Oakland, were injured Friday morning in an explosion aboard a boat in the Kennebec River that left the flaming craft floating on the tide before running aground in Pittston.
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PublishedJuly 4, 2013
Fire drives tenants from Washington Street apartment building Thursday night in Augusta
14 people evacuated their Washington Street homes Thursday night in the Sand Hill section of Augusta after fire broke out in an apartment building. Some firefighters were treated at the hospital after having difficulties working in the intense heat and the humidity.
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PublishedJuly 4, 2013
Former Chelsea selectwoman acted under ‘severe duress’ when she committed fraud, says lawyer
Defense attorneys for former Chelsea Selectwoman Carole Swan say that she was a battered wife, acting under her husband’s direction when she defrauded the government.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2013
Augusta Humane Society waives cat adoption fees through September
Adoption fees for cats are being waived for the next three months — through the local animal shelter, the Kennebec Valley Humane Society in Augusta.
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PublishedJune 30, 2013
Bad fences make for second court beef between Readfield, farmer
The town of Readfield is suing Edward Munson, who lives in the neighboring town of Winthrop, for a second time, claiming his cattle continue to get loose on public roads and threaten public safety.
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PublishedJune 28, 2013
RSU 12’s $26.5M budget appears to fail before voters Friday
Regional School Unit 12’s proposed $26.5 million budget appeared headed for defeat in Friday’s referendum.
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PublishedJune 27, 2013
Randolph robbery wheelman sentenced to four months in prison
Tyler J. Perry, 29, of Gardiner, will serve four months behind bars and spend the remainder of almost a year on probation for his role as driver in a Sept. 22 robbery of an elderly Randolph man.
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PublishedJune 27, 2013
Monmouth child-porn owner gets year in prison for second violation
Raymond Carl LeClair Jr., 47, was sentenced Thursday in Kennebec County Superior Court to eight years in prison, with all but one year suspended, and 12 years’ probation, for possession of sexually explicit materials.
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