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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PublishedOctober 1, 2015
Farmingdale man to take over as Readfield town manager
Eric W. Dyer has experience in town government on Maine islands.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2015
Fired Riverview nurse agrees to inactive status for nursing license
William G. Lord, of Readfield, is scheduled for a jury trial this month on charges of injuring his infant son and threatening the baby’s mother.
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PublishedSeptember 29, 2015
Augusta woman pleads guilty to operating under the influence following May crash
Investigators later determined that while Heidi Everson, 42, had no alcohol in her system, she told police she had taken central nervous system depressants, and those were detected in a urine test.
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PublishedSeptember 29, 2015
Waterville purse-snatcher sentenced
Jesse J. Peterson, 28, was ordered to serve a split sentence of an initial 60 days in jail followed by two years of probation.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2015
Norridgewock nurse indicted on a charge of stealing drugs
A number of other indictments were handed up Friday by a Kennebec County grand jury.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2015
Former Augusta man sentenced to 3 years on cocaine offense
Donatello Maldanado, 25, originally was charged with aggravated unlawful trafficking in cocaine, but the charge was reduced in exchange for a plea.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2015
Sidney woman wins panel support in job discrimination complaint
The Maine Human Rights Commission decided earlier this week that there are reasonable grounds to believe Brenda Webber was a victim of disability discrimination.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2015
Farmingdale man pleads guilty to harming infant son
Patrick A. Brown, 34, now of Lewiston, told police he squeezed the boy by his ribs and yelled at him to stop crying, and sometimes threw him into his crib from a foot away.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2015
Augusta residents question provisions, definitions in proposed historic district ordinance
City Councilors have yet to vote on the proposed ordinance, which carries a unanimous recommendation for passage from the city’s Planning Board.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2015
Riverview patient wins permission to move to supervised housing in Augusta
Kristian McKay, 29, allegedly had been involved in drug dealing in December 2014.
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