Ten occupants escaped from the Mills Road residence, and no serious injuries were reported.
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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Readfield Select Board surveying residents on budget issues
The survey is available on the town website and at the Town Office, the library and the transfer station.
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Readfield board OKs town manager’s resignation
Stefan Pakulski will be paid through July, when his contract ends.
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Former Riverview patients reportedly involved in drug dealing
Kristian McKay and William Bruce, both found not criminally responsible for murdering a parent, have been sent back to the psychiatric center.
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Augusta woman convicted of assaulting mother
Bobbi Sue Trask, 28, was found guilty by a jury in Kennebec County Superior Court.
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Kennebec Registry of Deeds in Augusta could move to Memorial Circle
With the new consolidated courthouse set to open in March, the old District Court building could become the place where people research property titles and liens.
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State prison inmate wants to return to Riverview
Michael James, serving a lengthy prison sentence for robbery and other charges, claims a judge erred in discharging him from the state hospital.
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DA declines to pursue drug charges against Augusta woman
Loretta Barton, 56, was freed Friday after spending a night in jail.
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Riverview worker accused of sexually assaulting outpatient
Wayne Lewis, 65, of Augusta, who had his bail reduced at Friday hearing, worked at the Upper Saco Unit of Riverview Psychiatric Center.
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Kennebec jury clears Massachusetts man of drug-trafficking charge
Cornell Collins, of Webster, Mass., was found not guilty after a two-day trial.