Some residents wanted to change the way the town conducts some of its business.
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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Steel beam tops out new Lithgow library expansion in Augusta
The three-story steel skeleton with multiple gables outlines the city’s library of the future, one which merges the granite block structure that opened in 1896 at Winthrop and State streets with an addition that triples its size.
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Campbell Barn in Augusta gets new lease on life
The 1904 barn was used to house 200 animals during the era of the Maine Insane Hospital, but now it’s been re-purposed for use by the Department of Marine Resources and other state agencies.
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Injured Riverview mental health worker appeals lawsuit dismissal
Jamie Hill-Spotswood told a supervisor that she felt unsafe less than a week before she was beaten and stabbed, her lawsuit says.
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Augusta ceremony welcomes two submarine veterans into Holland Club membership
The membership is exclusive to those who had qualified as a submariner at least 50 years ago.
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LePage, lawmakers, judges dedicate new Augusta courthouse
Chief Justice Leigh Saufley praised Libby Mitchell, who was president of the Maine Senate when the two collaborated in 2009 to secure funding for the $58 million project.
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Police charge 21 men in Augusta, Waterville prostitution sting
A defense attorney contacted by some of the men questioned the scale of the police operations, since the resulting charges were nonserious misdemeanors.
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New York woman pleads guilty in Waterville credit card scam
Nelcie Souffrant, 25, was charged with theft by receiving stolen property, misuse of ID and resisting arrest in a case in which stolen credit cards were used to buy about $8,000 worth of gift cards in Waterville and in Bangor.
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Former Somerset County DA clerk denies embezzling $85,000
Julie A. Smith, 58, of Skowhegan, pleaded not guilty Thursday in an Augusta courtroom.
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Sidney road rage incident ends in plea deal
Demitria Buhalis, the Vermont woman charged in the Maine criminal threatening case, has since lost her job as a Veterans Affairs police officer, according to her attorney.