Officials say the change better reflects the mission of the hospital, but a lawmaker says the hospital faces bigger issues.
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.
Richmond Eldercare home faulted by human rights panel
James Nichols complained he was a victim of disability discrimination and unfairly discharged.
Fayette meeting Aug 18 will handle school funding requests
Voters are being asked for $106,000 more at the special town meeting community leaders predicted.
Augusta car show supports children’s cancer program
Cancer survivors, volunteers gather to view cars, raise money.
Fayette event to mark Kennebec Land Trust 25th anniversary
The celebration will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Camp Winnebago, on Route 17.
Jury selected in Bard child rape case
The Sidney man has been held for two years awaiting trial.
Augusta man who stole from Kohl’s headed to jail
Matthew A. True, 20, also broke into the Gardiner Public Library last year and stole a safe.
Judge dismisses cell tower lawsuit against Rome
Two telecommunications companies filed a suit after the planning board denied a cell tower permit for The Mountain.
Maine Turnpike sleeping driver sentenced for drug possession
Karl Kittredge’s sentence was one of several in separate cases in Kennebec County Superior Court.
Four surgeons departing Augusta’s MaineGeneral
The VA hospital at Togus is getting services of physicians Cameron McKee, Richard Morand, Clint Delashaw and William Weiss.