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 7, 2014
Dresden mother begins 2nd cancer bout
Family, friends raise more than $35,000 in four days to help Cyndi MacMaster.
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PublishedDecember 6, 2014
Augusta fire victims await new housing, take stock of what remains
Several agencies and individuals are donating shelter and items to help the 27 displaced people.
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PublishedDecember 6, 2014
State museum’s model railway displays in Augusta amaze young fans
Two 2-year-olds carry their own toy engines.
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PublishedDecember 5, 2014
Farmington, Augusta men sentenced in Kennebec County Superior Court
The sentences stem from a 2011 armed standoff and burglary in Jay.
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PublishedDecember 2, 2014
Augusta drug bust nets Pa. man 45 months in prison
Tyshawn Mack, of Bath, Pa., was one of 10 people charged following a police raid on Dec. 18, 2013.
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PublishedDecember 2, 2014
Vassalboro, Fairfield men sentenced for separate sex offenses
One man pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a mentally disabled woman he was being paid to assist through a state program.
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PublishedDecember 1, 2014
Augusta woman jailed for food stamp theft, drunken driving
Kathryn Dutton was ordered to pay $20,554 remaining in restitution for illegally obtaining MaineCare and food stamp benefits.
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PublishedNovember 28, 2014
Augusta man accused in two Rite Aid robberies previously robbed CVS
Court documents say three people charged in connection with the Sept. 2 pharmacy robberies spent that night using the stolen oxycodone.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2014
Augusta man gets a year behind bars on heroin charge
Ten people were arrested when Peter Gleason’s home was raided by drug enforcement agents last December.
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PublishedNovember 25, 2014
Central Maine Thanksgiving meals undaunted by snowy forecast
Several local groups are planning to deliver hundreds of hot meals and feed others on site on Thursday.
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