Peter J. Dubord, 54, was taken into custody immediately after being found guilty in Kennebec County Superior Court.
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.
Manslaughter charges dropped against driver who caused double-fatal Winthrop crash
Jeffrey Ray, of Scarborough, apologized in court to family of Napoleon and Patricia St. Laurent, who were killed in the 2013 crash.
Welfare fraud, child assault charges lead Kennebec indictments
A number of local people were indicted by the most recent session of the Kennebec County grand jury.
J&S Oil in Manchester loses court claim against insurer
The company sought to collect oil spill damages from its commercial auto policy, but a judge ruled against the company last week.
Capital Judicial Center’s ceremonial opening delayed to September
The new courthouse in Augusta is still getting furniture, more parking, and a connector to the large courtroom in the county courthouse.
Sheep-shearing students work on live animals at Washington farm
The lessons took place on a small platform outside the barn at Nanne Kennedy’s Seacolors Yarnery at Meadowcroft Farm on Hopkins Road.
Augusta conference tracks conversion of business to worker-owned cooperative
The story of the formation of Island Employee Cooperative Inc., was the topic of one of several sessions on cooperation among co-ops, held at Augusta’s Viles Arboretum.
Augusta teen club hopes to cook again at Buker Community Center
The Kennebec Leadership Institute is raising money for a commercial kitchen installation at the former middle school.
Rome taxes rising 25 percent
Selectmen blame school costs and a problem with funding a firetruck last year.
Chelsea assault charges result in hung jury
Randy L. Young, 37, was accused of strangling a woman he had been living with off and on.