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Kennebec Journal

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.

Sidney woman sentenced on federal drug charge

by Betty Adams July 24, 2018July 24, 2018

Amanda Ware was a witness called by the prosecution at the murder trial of Aubrey Armstrong.

Belgrade man asks Maine’s high court to overturn sexual assault conviction

by Betty Adams July 24, 2018July 24, 2018

Travis Gerrier says his police interview was involuntary and he was not competent to stand trail in the sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl.

Local & State, Maine Crime

Drug trafficking charges lead list of Kennebec indictments

by Betty Adams July 23, 2018July 23, 2018

Multiple people were charged recently in the grand jury process.

Local & State, Maine Crime

Bath man charged with burglary, mischief at Belgrade youth camp

by Betty Adams July 23, 2018July 23, 2018

No campers were present Saturday night, and police said they arrested a suspect almost immediately.

Local & State

Resident raises alarms after Augusta mailboxes left in disarray at mobile home park

by Betty Adams July 22, 2018July 23, 2018

The 160 mailboxes were being put into numeric order to match addresses, the post office said.

Local & State

New, wider, higher deck in store for West Gardiner exit ramp bridge

by Betty Adams July 20, 2018July 20, 2018

The $6.8 million construction project for the Maine Turnpike Authority will be underway until November 2019.

Cops & Courts, Local & State, Maine Crime

Man from China jailed following police stand-off, assault report

by Betty Adams July 20, 2018July 20, 2018

Kevin Poulin faces an aggravated assault charge as well as numerous domestic violence charges after he allegedly beat a woman over the head with a laptop, threatened to shoot her and attempted to strangle her.

Cops & Courts, Local & State, Maine Crime

New York man found guilty of murder in Christmas slaying of two Augusta residents

by Betty Adams July 19, 2018July 19, 2018

David W. Marble Jr., 32, also known as ‘D-Money,’ was found guilty by a jury Thursday morning of murdering the couple as retribution for a drug-related burglary.