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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PublishedJune 20, 2013
Specialty court programs give criminals new lease on life
Two men who pleaded guilty to separate robberies got new starts in life on Thursday after successfully completing specialty court programs aimed at rehabilitation.
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PublishedJune 19, 2013
Fayette, Litchfield, Mount Vernon approve municipal budgets
Residents in Fayette, Litchfield and Mount Vernon approved municipal budgets at their annual Town Meetings on Saturday.
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PublishedJune 19, 2013
Harpswell woman takes koi fish fight to Maine’s highest court
A Harpswell woman is taking her fight to keep her koi fish to the state Supreme Court in an effort to make the invasive species legal in Maine.
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PublishedJune 19, 2013
Mount Vernon given go-ahead on budget, concrete work
Residents in Mount Vernon approved the $1.02 million municipal budget at the annual Town Meeting on Saturday.
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PublishedJune 19, 2013
Fayette OKs municipal, school budgets at Town Meeting
Fayette voters adopted almost all articles as presented at Saturday’s annual Town Meeting, including a $1.6 million school budget and a municipal budget of just over $1 million.
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PublishedJune 19, 2013
Litchfield voters say yes to $1.35 milion budget
Residents at the annual Litchfield Town Meeting approved a $1.35 million budget and added $25,000 to the special projects fund to improve conditions at two historically dangerous intersections.
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PublishedJune 18, 2013
Corinna man pleads guilty to quarter-century-old sex offenses
A Corinna man, Glenn A. Graves, 57, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Kennebec County Superior Court to sex offenses dating from more than a quarter-century ago.
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PublishedJune 15, 2013
Fires, condemnations squeezing Augusta apartment-rental market
Within the past year, Augusta has lost 26 apartments to fires and 25 others have been declared unfit for occupancy, putting a crunch on the local rental market.
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PublishedJune 12, 2013
Woman has shot to erase guilty plea for assault
A city woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge of assault, and several other people were sentenced in Kennebec County Superior Court.
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PublishedJune 12, 2013
Sabattus rejection enough to defeat RSU 4 budget
Rejection of the proposed Regional School Unit 4 school budget 180- 121 in Sabattus was enough to defeated the validation effort in that district, though Litchfield and Wales approved the plan.
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