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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PublishedJuly 7, 2014
Demolition delayed for three buildings near Augusta courthouse
The Augusta Historic Preservation Commission found that the Perham Street buildings were “significant” as defined by the city ordinance.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2014
Former Fairfield man loses appeal to get additional good time days
Glen Harrington challenged the prison policy in an appeal argued before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2014
Gardiner ear-biter cleared of assault charges
A jury finds the defendant not guilty after he told the court he bit another man’s ear in self-defense.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2014
Waterville man says DNA from robbery, not murder
Roland Cummings, pleading not guilty Wednesday, said he stole $2 from victim Aurele Fecteau’s pocket weeks before the murder.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2014
Former Chelsea selectwoman Carole Swan files appeal
Swan has been convicted on federal charges of extortion, tax fraud and workers’ compensation.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2014
Judge recommends for Waterville in police disability suit
A former police sergeant says the city discriminated against him after he became ill with leukemia and couldn’t work.
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PublishedJune 30, 2014
Raub pleads guilty to 1976 Augusta homicide
Gary Raub, 65, was arrested after police got his DNA from a piece of gum they asked him to chew for a non-existent survey.
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PublishedJune 30, 2014
Raub: ‘I pled guilty because it must have happened’
In a jailhouse interview, the convicted killer says he has no memory of Augusta, where he stabbed Blanche Kimball to death in 1976.
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PublishedJune 30, 2014
Waterville bank robber to spend five years in prison
David Alvarez, who robbed Bangor Savings Bank in February, was one of several sentenced last week in Kennebec County Superior Court.
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PublishedJune 29, 2014
Augusta monument dedicated to murder victims
Families gather and say aloud the names of the 83 people memorialized in stone.
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