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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PublishedJune 15, 2015
Mount Vernon voters OK plan for new firetruck, 2-year terms for some town officials
The votes came at the annual Town Meeting on Saturday that attracted between 50 and 60 people.
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PublishedJune 15, 2015
Dresden voters tuck money away in highway accounts, OK plans for boat ramps
Some 50 voters attended Saturday’s annual Town Meeting.
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PublishedJune 13, 2015
Rides-for-elderly program gears up in five Kennebec County towns
A search is on for a part-time coordinator for the program, which will operate in Belgrade, Fayette, Mount Vernon, Rome and Vienna.
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PublishedJune 11, 2015
Dresden voters to decide highway spending, boat landing issues
The Town Meeting begins 9 a.m. Saturday at Pownalborough Hall.
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PublishedJune 11, 2015
Former Riverview worker sentenced for endangering outpatient
The Augusta man was originally charged with gross sexual assault, a charge that was reduced as part of a plea agreement.
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PublishedJune 11, 2015
Fayette board rejects appeal of gun shop permit
The Appeals Board ‘found no fault with the Planning Board’s approval process,’ the town manager said.
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PublishedJune 10, 2015
Mount Vernon voters to consider firetruck, two-year terms for clerk
The Town Meeting begins at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Mount Vernon Community Center.
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PublishedJune 9, 2015
Readfield voters OK 358-298 continuing secret ballot for 2016 Town Meeting
‘Average’ turnout rejects spending items, elects Bourgoine, Sammons to Select Board.
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PublishedJune 9, 2015
Farrington principal OK’d putting math materials into testing classrooms, teachers’ union says
The principal resigned in the wake of the state’s announcement it was invalidating results of tests taken by 106 students.
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PublishedJune 8, 2015
N.H. pair held on heroin trafficking charge
Mother and son were arrested during a traffic stop in I-295 in West Gardiner.
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