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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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  • Published
    June 13, 2012

    Winthrop rejects school budget

    WINTHROP — Voters rejected the $10.2 million school budget at the polls Tuesday by 32 votes. Some 712 people voted against affirming the 2012-2013 budget which was a $365,000 increase over the current year. Some 680 people voted in favor of it. The rejection will be the topic of an emergency school board meeting at […]

  • Published
    June 13, 2012

    Family finds themselves suddenly homeless

    AUGUSTA — Andrea Jellison and her husband drove into their driveway early Tuesday afternoon with the backseat of the car full of a month’s worth of groceries.

  • Published
    June 12, 2012

    Windsor asphalt operation shuts down

    WINDSOR — There will be no asphalt made at the newest site of R.C. & Sons Paving. The company has halted all its operations.

  • Published
    June 9, 2012

    Law firm cleared of former client’s malpractice claims

    A Gardiner law firm has been cleared of legal malpractice claims brought by a former client.

  • Published
    June 9, 2012

    Litchfield ballot features RSU 4 race

    LITCHFIELD — The only local contest on the ballot Tuesday is for a seat on the board of Regional School Unit 4, which serves Litchfield, Sabattus and Wales.

  • Published
    June 8, 2012

    Car theft spree ends in prison

    AUGUSTA — A Bass Harbor man will spend five years in prison for stealing three vehicles in one night and crashing one of them into a house, which caught fire and forced the homeowners from their beds.

  • Published
    June 8, 2012

    Teen in court on arson, burglary

    AUGUSTA — A 15-year-old boy accused of burglarizing several homes on a Togus Pond island and burning one of them to the ground last month was in court Thursday to face those charges for the first time.

  • Published
    June 8, 2012

    Crime spree nets Bass Harbor man five years in prison

    AUGUSTA — A Bass Harbor man will spend five years in prison for stealing three vehicles in one night and crashing one of them into a house, which caught fire and forced the homeowners from their beds.

  • Published
    June 7, 2012

    State shorts lawyers for poor clients

    AUGUSTA — Robert Ruffner put in a notice on Tuesday asking to withdraw as the attorney for two defendants facing criminal charges in Kennebec County.

  • Published
    June 6, 2012

    Warrant reveals use of surveillance in Waterville and Augusta drug case

    A search warrant used to gather evidence of alleged drug trafficking in the Waterville and Augusta areas reveals that agents watched two defendants, their homes, their vehicles and their girlfriends for about six weeks before making arrests late last month.