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 4, 2015
Gardiner robot parades through Augusta streets in Independence Day salute
The capital city’s daylong celebration marked the end of the area’s Whatever Week festivities.
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PublishedJuly 3, 2015
Hallowell sculpture garden opens at Vaughan Homestead
The celebration was held in collaboration with “The Harlow Aviary,” a display at the Harlow Gallery on Water Street.
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PublishedJuly 3, 2015
Hallowell mayor opens display of historic copy of Declaration of Independence
The document will be available for viewing 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Hallowell City Hall.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2015
Located in Chelsea, Kentucky man to return home to face charges
David Harvey was found in Chelsea with a girl, 16, who had been reported missing Monday from her Kentucky home.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2015
Litchfield crash leads police to pot plants
John Young, 54, of Litchfield, is accused of drunken driving and marijuana cultivation.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2015
Apparent Farmingdale suicide follows drunken-driving arrest
The Kennebec River Rail Trail was closed for two hours early Thursday as police conducted the investigation.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2015
Two men charged after police raid West Gardiner pot-growing operation
The raid at the former Grange hall on Hallowell-Litchfield Road followed several weeks of surveillance, police said.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2015
DNA on boxers leads police to Augusta theft suspect
Jesse Hanson is accused of stealing cash April 11 at the Cumberland Farms on Mount Vernon Avenue.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2015
Augusta man gets seven years in prison for ninth drunken driven conviction
Peter J. Dubord was convicted by a jury in April after operating a motorcycle under the influence of alcohol.
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PublishedJune 30, 2015
Augusta’s St. Mark’s Home property dispute heads for mediation
The 1870 donor wanted it to revert to his heirs if it was no longer being used as a home for women.
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