Robert L. Folsom, 40, pleaded guilty to having unlawful sexual contact with a teenage girl.
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.
Fayette seeks new place for town trash
Jay is closing its transfer station to outsiders as of July 1, and Fayette selectmen are looking at their options to replace the site they have used for decades.
Former Augusta woman caught with heroin in her bra gets 9 months
Kristen N. Swift, 27, most recently of Lewiston, was sentenced on burglary, theft and other charges.
Bail set for Vassalboro drug trafficking suspects
A Gardiner woman was freed when a judge told her to start making payments toward unpaid fines.
Assault in Winthrop sends man to prison for 27 months
Ryan Harris was on probation for a prior assault when he got involved in a melee on Turkey Lane.
Waterville man ordered to serve 12 years in prison for drug trafficking
Brian Danaher told police he was ‘making a killing’ marketing the drugs he ferried up from Portland.
Farmers market vendors learn how to scale up at Hallowell convention
The eighth annual meeting brought together farmers from across Maine.
Augusta looking to add nurses at public schools, superintendent says
James Anastasio described that effort and others during an Augusta school board workshop on the 2016-2017 budget.
Woolwich man killed in Pittston crash
The vehicle apparently went off Route 27, rolled over and ended up on its roof on an ice-covered pond before breaking through into the water, police said.
Agents arrest 8 in Vassalboro, seize guns, drugs
Authorities say heroin, powdered cocaine, guns and cash were seized in a house raid Friday night on Whitehouse Road in Vassalboro.