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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PublishedJune 29, 2014
Former Winslow woman faces new charges of theft
Wendi Willette is accused of stealing state welfare benefits over a six-year period.
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PublishedJune 28, 2014
Farmingdale voters OK ordinance proposals, buying new fire hose
Town Meeting attracts about 50 voters who dealt with business quickly on a sunny summer day.
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PublishedJune 22, 2014
Talks continue on Kennebec courthouse parking area
The target area for the remaining 90 or so spaces needed involves four properties on Perham Street behind the Kennebec County jail.
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PublishedJune 19, 2014
Heroin trafficking, assault cost Pa. man prison time
The charges result from a vehicle stop on Interstate 295 in Farmingdale.
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PublishedJune 19, 2014
Augusta bail commissioner lauded for 38 years service
Dick Gribbin says his love of people fueled his passion for ‘the best job I ever had.’
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PublishedJune 17, 2014
Augusta mental health care provider wants MaineCare payments restored
AngleZ Behavioral Health has filed a court appeal of a September state decision to cut off payments.
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PublishedJune 16, 2014
Mount Vernon OKs spending on Minnehonk Lake improvement project
Residents who attended the annual Town Meeting increased funds for road maintenance and passed other warrant articles unchanged.
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PublishedJune 16, 2014
Augusta woman gets 31 months in prison for distributing oxycodone
Federal prosecutors say Jennifer Dowling sold 37 pills to a confidential informant for $1,000 on May 9, 2012, in West Gardiner.
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PublishedJune 16, 2014
Judge issues gag order in case with child rape allegations
Lawyers, court personnel and witnesses have been told not to comment on proceedings in the case of Eric L. Bard.
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PublishedJune 16, 2014
Chelsea man gets 10 years in prison for beating, threatening girlfriend over two days
The prosecutor said public safety necessitated a long sentence, but the girlfriend wants to continue to have contact with Robert Robinson.
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