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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PublishedDecember 30, 2014
Augusta’s Capital Judicial Center nears completion
Furniture is being brought in and workers will move to Phase II shortly to renovate the historic Kennebec County Courthouse.
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PublishedDecember 30, 2014
Nancy Marshall honored by Kennebec Chamber
For her continuing success in growing Nancy Marshall Communications from its inception in 1991 to today, she is to receive the Chamber’s President’s Award.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2014
Six defendants praised at Augusta criminal sentencing hearings
All the individuals spent more than a year in specialty court programs.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2014
Defendant in Monmouth standoff pleads not guilty
Police used pepper spray and a dog to get Douglas McCaig out of his vehicle after police rammed it.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2014
Augusta women, formerly of St. Mark’s Home, find new residences
The Episcopal diocese has fielded a lot of questions about the property at Winthrop and Pleasant streets.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2014
Oakland woman charged with theft of welfare
Kennebec County grand jury hands up indictments Friday.
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PublishedDecember 20, 2014
Guerrette family continues to heal seven years after machete attack
A new business venture brings William and Ryan Guerrette together; while Nicole Guerrette, who was just 10 when she was attacked, attends a school for people with traumatic brain injuries.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2014
Fire destroys Winthrop house
A couple lost their home, possessions, possibly cats and kittens, in the Maranacook Road blaze.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2014
Augusta bleach-throwing incident brings jail term
Charles S. Cortright III, 46, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an incident in which he threw bleach into a woman’s face.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2014
Man allegedly assaults 2-year-old at Maine State Museum
An alert receptionist intervened as the man was attempting to pull the girl from her grandmother.
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