Ervin Morrison III promised customers goods and services, took deposits and never delivered, according to court documents.
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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Gardiner man pleads guilty to federal wire fraud charges
Ervin Morrison III promised customers goods and services, took deposits and never delivered, according to court documents.
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Belgrade officials move into new Town Office on Route 27
The new building opens for business on Monday morning and an open house is set for 9 a.m. to noon June 25.
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Former Litchfield man sentenced for Augusta church burglaries
James Wilbur, who broke into South Parish Congregational Church and the Unitarian Universalist Church, said he is hoping to get into programs at the Maine State Prison to help break his cycle of criminal behavior.
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Principal Patricia Doyle departs Oak Hill High School after 37 years
Doyle is joining the nonprofit College Board and will continue working with schools in Maine.
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Badeau, Cronin win select board seats in Fayette
Tammy Maxwell won the single seat on the Fayette School Board.
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Parent, Woodsum win Readfield Select Board seats
All 48 articles on the ballot were adopted in Tuesday voting.
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Riverview patient fined for four assaults at state hospital
On Tuesday, Arlene Edson pleaded guilty to the assaults, which occurred Nov. 27-Dec. 11, 2014, and whose victims included police officers and a maintenance worker.
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Clinton man sentenced to 1 year for assault, store break-ins
Christian C. Greaves, 21, pleaded guilty to assaulting a 65-year-old man by breaking his hand, and to breaking into Waterville and Winslow businesses.
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Augusta man appeals drug trafficking conviction to Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Franklin F. Arbour Jr., 40, says police tricked him into confessing to the crime and that the drugs they found at his home belonged to other people.