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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PublishedMay 8, 2015
New liver gives 30-year-old Augusta woman new lease on life
April Berends started the new year with a new liver, and encourages everyone she encounters to sign up as a donor.
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PublishedMay 7, 2015
Winslow man gets 55 months for heroin trafficking in pharmacy
Police witnessed Zachary R. Gilbert handing off heroin to another man in Waterville Rite Aid last November.
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PublishedMay 7, 2015
Family of teen killed in Whitefield ATV crash sues
The Kennebec County lawsuit seeks damages from the car driver’s mother.
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PublishedMay 6, 2015
Winthrop woman accused of hitting man in face with ax
Tiffany Bragg made an initial court appearance on an aggravated assault charge on Wednesday.
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PublishedMay 6, 2015
Trio convicted in Kennebec County drug, welfare fraud cases
A number of people were sentenced to prison or jail in cases heard at the Capital Judicial Center.
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PublishedMay 4, 2015
Body pulled from the Kennebec River identified as Augusta woman
Kelly Voytasko had been reported missing in late March shortly after witnesses saw a woman step off the ice and into the open river.
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PublishedMay 4, 2015
Belgrade’s former tree warden sues town, selectboard chair
Lisa Carr claims wrongful termination and whistleblower retaliation in 2013 actions.
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PublishedMay 4, 2015
Four candidates seek two seats on Readfield Select Board
Selectmen Reay and Durgin opt against running for re-election in a town that recently lost its town manager.
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PublishedMay 1, 2015
Augusta’s MaineGeneral Medical Center gets ‘C’ grade from hospital safety group
The hospital’s chief medical officer says the data doesn’t entirely reflect conditions at the hospital that opened in November 2013.
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PublishedApril 30, 2015
Chelsea man convicted of assault after pleading no contest
A number of other people were sentenced recently in cases heard at the Capital Judicial Center.
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