The company owner denied responsibility and said he was not at the State Street home when the accident took place.
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.
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Riverview patient pleads guilty to assaulting worker
Arlene Edson will serve 18 months in prison for hitting the woman repeatedly in the head in December.
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Maine to get $21.5 million from Standard & Poor’s
The multi-state settlement ends a lawsuit charging the credit rating firm with unfair trade practices.
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Farmingdale woman’s drug charges result in felony marijuana cultivation plea
Angie L. Sousa can withdraw that plea in a year and be convicted on a misdemeanor charge.
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Crews fight massive Whitefield house, barn fire
Firefighters from several towns were called to Hilton Road to fight a fire that was still burning Tuesday evening.
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Policy stops cash payments on restitution in Kennebec and Somerset counties
The change took effect Monday in anticipation of loss of security officers at the DA’s office when courts combine at the soon-to-open Capital Judicial Center.
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Charges yet to be filed in intentionally set Vassalboro house fire
A resident of the house called the state psychiatric hospital to say he had set his bed afire, according to police.
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Whitefield house fire traced to boy burning rope
A separate fire on Thursday at a nursing home was caused by an exhaust fan.
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Kennebec County grand jury indicts three Riverview psychiatric patients
Two are charged with assaulting workers at the state forensic hospital and one is accused of damaging property.
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Former Wayne teacher sentenced to 50 years for raping 3 boys
The sentence will run concurrent with the 65-year federal sentence Patrik Ian Arsenault received last week in federal court on child pornography charges.