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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PublishedJuly 13, 2015
Rights panel sides with Farmingdale worker, Skowhegan landlord
The Maine Human Rights Commission held hearings Monday in Augusta, including a case involving a Farmingdale man in an employment complaint.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2015
Readfield man charged after vehicle chase in Winthrop, Monmouth
Christopher Fuller faces charges of drunken driving, eluding an officer and criminal speed.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2015
Mount Vernon Avenue road work to start Monday at northern end
Two-way traffic will remain in effect until about mid-August, and the entire project is expected to run through June 2016.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2015
Waterville sucker punch earns three years in prison
The attack in May 2013 in the parking lot outside Champions nightclub left a bouncer blind in one eye.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2015
With Augusta apartment building gone, Kennebec courthouse gains public parking lot
About $57 million in bonds funded the new, four-story courthouse as well as the renovations to the second floor of the adjacent building.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2015
Readfield to take up town manager applications
Six candidates have applied for the post, which became vacant in February when the town negotiated the resignation of Stefan Pakulski.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2015
Former Winslow woman begins 18 months behind bars for embezzlement
Wendi Pond, 42, formerly known as Wendi Willette and Wendi Thompson, now of Whitefield, New Hampshire, was sentenced Thursday at a hearing in the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta.
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PublishedJuly 8, 2015
Vassalboro woman jailed for methamphetamine possession
Several other people were sentenced in hearings Tuesday at the Capital Judicial Center.
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PublishedJuly 7, 2015
Oakland woman who stole $35,000 in Social Security benefits pleads guilty to new charge of theft
Laura Mathieu will report to jail July 14 after stealing almost $42,000 in state welfare benefits.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2015
Rome seeks public input in legal battles over proposed cell tower
Defense costs have reached almost $42,000 since early March.
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